Sarah Cavar studies gender, dis/ability, and the pathologization of non-normative identity at Mount Holyoke College. Their work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Establishment, Sinister Wisdom, The Deaf Poets Society, Polyester Zine, and elsewhere.
I am kin to the disobedient woman precisely because I am not a woman, because no one is correctly a woman, because everyone fears being a woman, because the woman striving to be a paragon will die by a thousand dull cuts.