“The question becomes, finally, what part of the past is worth preserving and how might constitutional interpretation steer us closer to legal, social, and personal transformation the way the best literature and literary analysis repeatedly does.”

Chris Girman, “Little Essays, Big Ideas: Interpretative Freedom and the U.S. Constitution”

“Those signifying grids of dominant discourse, dry and mapped, felt like prisons to me as a teenager and young adult, and I am grateful to all the Dominican men, and men from other parts of Latin America, who have allowed me to feel their embrace. These men who have pulled me out of my (composed) body and (stable) self into something else with their smiles, friendship, and touchy-feely sensibility. Together, we experience (leakage) and (rupture). We stumble off course. Spaces become fugitive, fused. We collide. I may have finally found the something else I have long sought.”

Chris Girman, “Diaries, dicks, and desire: how the leaky traveler troubles dominant discourse in the eroticized Caribbean”