Greta Schuler lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of the Witwatersrand and a doctoral fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society. Her work has appeared in various journals, including the Crab Orchard Review, Creative Nonfiction, and Confrontation.

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Notes from Your Live-in Partner Who Happens to Work from Home

By GRETA SCHULER

Thank you for questioning my use of the word "chivalric" at that dinner party last night, for the humiliation of having the word "chivalrous" mansplained to me as you and your fellow management consultants doubted the worth of studying things like Medieval English literature.