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Fanfiction in the Time of the Anthropocene
I will skip the earthquakes and record temperatures. We begin with the coffee shop AU.
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Charnell Peters

May 2021

(three poems for spring)
how to fall light like / how to lay like a shadow / how to make a universe / of the cobwebbed corner / how to stay
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Charnell Peters

March 2021

Hilda, Bob’s Burgers, and White Childhood Innocence
Whiteness affords children the precondition of goodness, which necessitates that children of color are dichotomously constructed as bad.
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Charnell Peters

October 2020

Going Down Swinging: The Emo Songs that Defined My Preteen Years
Emo, alternative, and pop punk songs gave me words to dream about fighting in ways I did not dare imagine myself.
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Charnell Peters
The Break / On Poetry and Humanness
Poems are about moving toward doubt, always pushing to the next line where you, at the break, are faced with your own humanness.
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Charnell Peters

September 2020

Firefly’s “Serenity” as a Case Study of Relational Power
“Serenity” sets the stage for exploring how power is a communal resource on this ship throughout the duration of the series.
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Charnell Peters
Nothing Left to Fear: A Review of Waxahatchee’s St. Cloud
Though the songs reveal anger, grief, frustration, and, at times hopelessness, they never linger too long on the heaviest parts.
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Charnell Peters
An Answer to the Question: Why are You a Race Scholar?
To be Black and from Southern Indiana is to take up space within a place. It is to discern the edges of what is held in. It is to be the edge.
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Charnell Peters
A Dispatch from Isolation
It’s all small. It’s all holy. And grief visits me daily when I think about losing these small things and the potential for losing much bigger ones.
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Charnell Peters
Re-learning the Joy of Writing
My mom likes to tell me that I’m the writer in the family, but I disagree. We are all writers.
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Charnell Peters
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