Sina Queyras | Issue 17

In Rooms I explore this moment, and then the way in which my young self tried to grapple with and realize this awakening within the constructs of a heteronormative white, patriarchal, world.

Writing, and thinking, for me, is physical.

My desire to write is steeped not so much in the desire to tell a story — though it certainly includes that — but in a desire to represent the physicality at the root of the story.

Writing often feels more like dance, or performance, in my own work, yes, but even when I am thinking, critiquing, and discussing it…