Emcee Big Wheel

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Three Larissa Stories

Three short stories: Larissa and Elementary Chemistry, Larissa Goes into Business, and Larissa\u27s Greatest Fear

A Trip To The Grocery

Pages 79-8

Whose Line Is It, Anyway?: Doing Harm in Disability Memoir

This paper examines disability memoirs, and the author\u27s responsibility to their community versus their personal story. While telling stories of disability can be a means of sharing one\u27s truth, authors may be wrongly interpreted as speaking for a diverse community of individuals, or they may do harm to other disabled people by devaluing an entire group. Some memoirsts have avoided this potential for harm by expanding their notions of disability and community to embrace intersectionality, but it is vital to read a wide variety of disability memoirs to gain this complex picture

Review of \u3ci\u3eDrinking and Sobriety among the Lakota Sioux\u3c/i\u3e. By Beatrice Medicine.

Depicting alcohol use among Lakotas as both complex and culturally-specific, Beatrice Medicine\u27s book is an important addition to Native American and Great Plains studies. Medicine emphasizes that to comprehend its social, psychological, and economic dimensions fully, one must understand Lakota customs and two hundred years of history

Sharp things, or the silver lines are not scars

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This novel is the story of Tianne, a twenty-eight-year-old stained glass artist. She works two part-time jobs as a clerk at a stained glass supply store, and as an adjunct instructor at a community college. Her boyfriend Jeremiah is an academic adviser at the same college, but wants a career performing in comedy clubs. He uses a wheelchair due to spina bifida, and is cheerfully blunt that he could die from an undetected kidney infection. Tianne wrangles her own invisible disability, since endometriosis causes her to have awful cramps during her period that can keep her home from work. Tianne loves her jobs but worries about bills after her car breaks down. She envies Jeremiah's financial stability until he's fired for speaking his mind too many times to administration. Tianne fears for his health insurance coverage, while Jeremiah debates careers as a high school guidance counselor or touring comedy clubs. Throughout the book Tianne tries to chart a path though the instabilities of her body, Jeremiah's body, their career paths, and their romantic relationship, knowing that nothing is permanent. Hers is a story not of looking for stability, but coming to terms with instability, and finding spaces of adaptation to constant change