Tag: books

• coercive worlds

  How do we dream freedom from a world that orders our dreaming?  I’ve been really stuck on a concept from this summer, introduced to me by Johanna Kluger, one of the panelists at the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance’s (IASPR) 2025 conference: the idea of coercive worldbuilding. Kluger, in her research, traces…

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• it happened one autumn

  After all, “research” can be just walking around in the world with your eyes open. Collecting snippets of the world—or interviews, photos, art—and putting them together in ways that mean.  — Arianne Zwartjes, Autotheory as Rebellion I found a book today in a Little Free Library that matched my outfit. It Happened One Autumn, Lisa…

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• defining the feminist subjunctive

  So, what the heck is the feminist subjunctive, anyway? In writing my senior thesis, I am cobbling together a close reading methodology called the “feminist subjunctive,” inspired by a lovely friend of mine who introduced me to the term. My research aims to explore the ways in which contemporarily written historical romance fiction featuring non-normative…

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• time, folding

  I lived abroad last fall. It feels weird writing that, because it feels like it’s still happening and also like it never happened at all. But I did it, and it felt like a time away from time, a space waiting for me in the requiem of my dreams. It felt removed from reality, a…

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