this piece is about memory and how it carries on and thorugh who?

repetition of name with different connotations

double play, acknowledging limitations of viewpoint before offering speculation

good way to access the past while focalizing through speaker

double meaning -- physical temples but the temple of the head as well

contrast in personifications

transition to personal

pulling language through paragraphs to make a point / change hte meaning

repeatedly bringing back to the main incident

adds a layer of authenticity because it's one of those things you remember about people that has no real business being remembered but is anyway perhaps because it bugged you

Also there's this weird anti-asian vibe America has going for it. It's kind of changing what with the prominence of BTS and BLACKPINK as well as new high profile actors like Awkwafina, but I feel like sometimes there's this fetishization to it as well

I wonder whether minorities or people unfavored by the system are inherently more political than cis-het white people.

But then, what is political? I often take issue with gay rights being called political because it should, inherently, be considered a human right. And yet it is undeniable that gay rights, black rights, and womens rights among others are political lightning rods

How can we do this when we are inherently instilled with socialization and ideals. White people will always look at the world through a privileged lens whether or not they realize it and POC will always have a different perspective due to past treatment.

Anglo families might do this but the Navajo mostly likely would not given the belief that their children are grown by the age of 15

Two-spirits break this rule. Because gender is ingrained differently in their culture, they simply take on the roles the opposite gender would do. Nothing else about them changes and there is no physical look they must conform to though some might choose to dress in the opposite gender's clothing.

men need to feel needed. if they think a woman can achieve success on her own, he gets jealous, angry. somehow women's job has come to sate that ineptitude by plucking their own feathers

probably more so that she doesn't feel like she can cheat on him. men are possessive even when they do the same thing

we sneer at the opposite. it draws disgust because it is different. but when the opposite becomes undefined it becomes feared, truly reviled

when ostracized community isn't the only minority community you belong to, one might be throw out of that too

We've become so used to our own presence that its distrubing when we are absent --> corona pictures

Fear that we can become this animalistic?

Loss of autonomy

your body is full of borders, things that are part of you but once they are no longer part of you you don't want them = abject

Monstrousness exists in our minds–what we fear becomes monstrous. So ignorance creates monsters from nothing and bias creates monsters from ignorance. Monsters don't survive without the fragility of our minds.

I think we fear mostly the same general things in different packages ie death, the unknown, things more powerful than ourselves etc, but we use different objects to represent those fears. Are there any wholeheartedly universal monsters?

What is it about monsters that hold such power over our imaginations?