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      • 37: Tightrope: Performing Tension
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      • 29: The Creative Issue
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      • 31: Metamorphoses: Through the Lenses of Translation & Adaptation
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      • 14: Invisible Lines: Performing Borders and Liminal Space
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      • 17: Adrift: Rootlessness on Repeat
      • 18: Incognito
      • 19: The Performance of Yes: On Tacit & Explicit Agreement
      • 20: Rites: On Performing the Inexplicable
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Cleansing and Healing: A Short Story

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL Teresa “Resa” Resa had started the morning with a sense of impending doom. A feeling, while not unfamiliar, distressed her. She stared at herself in the mirror,…
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Balancing the Fields: A Conversation with Reiki Practitioner Diane Campbell

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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JONAH CAMPBELL “Hey, I’ve got time now if you want to do that interview.” “Oh yeah, ok great, give me one second.” I amble back into the kitchen, laptop in…
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Last Dance: Riding Westward with the Big Easy

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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ALEXANDRA REALE It’s a few minutes before the start of the Fourth of July parade in Huntington Beach, California, and the members of the New Orleans Traditional Jazz Band are…
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Eat It Too: A Short Story

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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CELESTE CHEN He likes to watch her eat cake. This is what they do after fights. He will stop by Pete’s, the tight corner bakery up the road, and bring…
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Performing the Politics of Drag

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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ANDREW WALKER In episode 6 of RuPaul’s Drag All Stars 2 (the one where Alaska infamously sends home Tatianna for a second time), RuPaul remarks during her critiques, “I marketed…
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Welcome to the Church of Sport

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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CALEB LEWIS Try to recall the last time you competed in a sport or a game. Did you do anything special before it started, just for you? Maybe you made…
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Rites: On Performing the Inexplicable

  • Posted on November 24, 2017April 4, 2019
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In this issue, we explore the ways that people use sanctification, ritual, and superstition in modern life, and how these things show up in both religious and secular contexts.
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