Bodies and Minds

Oh gosh. Well, we basically think that the body’s knowledge is a super important and dramatically neglected component of intellectual work. So, we want to offer this space for two kinds of work. So write here to sort through, 1: things you are learning (through exercise or illness or abuse or neglect) about your body as a thinking, laboring entity; or 2: things that the physical reality of your body has taught you about your erstwhile-intellectual work, but you couldn’t explore elsewhere—for instance, how your relationship to poor Hester Prynne on the scaffold changed completely once you started nursing a baby yourself and thinking about Hester’s poor swollen breasts under their emblazoned “A.” (And what did the early puritan immigrants think about nursing? And would Hawthorne have known about engorged breasts? Etc.)