Queer

Graphic and Textual Representations of Queerness in Fun Home

December 13, 2016 by Sarah Gompper

I wrote the following paper for Eng 220: Literary Analysis with Dr. Fackler.

Reading Nietzsche in Church

i bought this fingernail polish at the 99 cent store thinking it was black but when i painted it on, my fingers shimmered a gold-speckled olive green— more dangerous somehow and the green looks unpredictably philosophical flipping pages and highlighting passages of the Holy Book as the Last Man takes the lectern studying him through my hands i sing, god is dead, and I am beautiful

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Running Water (novella)

Please enjoy the following excerpt from my novella, Running Water, which I wrote during a semester-long seminar at Davidson with Dr. Flanagan. Printed and bound, this novella is 128 pages. I’m ugly, I’m ugly, I’m ugly.This is a novella about dancing on the fine line between love and hate. It’s about thriving in ambiguity. It’s about relationships. Thank you, Davidson. Thank you, liberal arts. Thank you to my professors and my deluded parents

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The “Skelf” of Existence in Hotel World

I wrote the following short paper on Ali Smith’s Hotel World for Eng 220: Literary Analysis with Dr. Fackler.

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