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HAPPINESS

Editorial

By Nicholas Cowley In Happiness

The Hundreds

Review of The Hundreds.

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May 12, 2019 in Happiness

Critique and Post-Critique or The End of “Critiquiness”

Review of Critique and Post-Critique.

May 12, 2019 in Happiness

How the Story Ends

Heather Schell and Katherine Larsen weave together a number of people in relevant fields and professions to respond to a handful of prompts, creating a dynamic, polyphonic exploration of the…

May 12, 2019 in Happiness

A Queer and Pleasant Stranger, Or: “You Can Look At My Butt”

Rachel Walerstein reads Kirsten Lepore’s short film, Hi Stranger, as an ambivalent object that inspires both happiness and disgust

May 12, 2019 in Happiness

“I’ll eat you up!”

Eva-Lynne Jagoe explores hunger and desire, weaving fairy tale with theories of orality.

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Call for submissions

Writing from Below is now accepting papers for an open-themed issue, volume three, number two. We welcome papers and creative works that engage with Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies from across all disciplines, and from academics at all stages of their careers.

The deadline for submissions is now closed. Issue 6.1 (2020) will have a call for submissions announced soon.

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