Thoughts on Metaphors, Stories, and Representation

• Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data

  “Metaphorical thinking half discovers and half invents the world it describes."

• Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

  If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?

• Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously

  A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions

• "Everything extraneous has burned away": An Interview about Love Alone--A Solo Play for World AIDS Day

  A conversation with the director and actor from Love Alone, a new staging of Paul Monette's 1988 poetry collection grieving the loss of his partner, Roger, to AIDS.

• Trans Ancestor Frank Woodhull and the Stories That Come From Necessity

  How do I make sure to separate the stories that I tell from necessity—for advocacy reasons, for example—from those that feel most personal, most true, most alive?

• Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

  "We are living off expired or expiring stories. Stories that expire can no longer dance with you. They are lethargic or stuck, they can’t move things in generative ways anymore, but we often feel we cannot let them go."