


Through this project I am interested in connection, exchange/transaction, and ways of being seen by others.
Many thanks to Eva Vargas and Bailey Anderson for providing feedback and suggestions for this project!
My work arises out of my participation and engagement with the world. I would like to name and credit the following influences in this bibliography as part of the source material for my work.
A Little Life, Hanya Yanigahara, 2015, Anchor Books
City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert, 2019
Covering, Kenji Yoshino, 2007, Random House
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver, 2017
The Essential Agrarian Reader, ed. by Norman Wirzba, 2003, University Press of Kentucky
The Ethics of Authenticity, Charles Taylor, 1992, Harvard University Press
How To Talk So Kids Can Learn, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, 1995, Scribner
Illness As Metaphor, Susan Sontag, 1989, Anchor Books
“Living While Black” Ted talk by Baratunde Thurston
the more extravagant feast, Leah Naomi Green, 2020, Greywolf Press
“Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow“, Robert Duncan, 1960
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, adrienne maree brown, 2019, AK Press
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack“, Peggy McIntosh, 1989
white supremacy culture, Tema Okun, www.dismantlingracism.org