Trespass
Twenty female essayists take on the conventional constraints of place-based writing in Trespass, allowing for more intricate investigations of the body, sexuality, gender, and race. These pieces travel over time and space, from a Minnesota summer camp to Kerala, India's peacock-lined streets, revealing their writers as artistic and distinctive observers of their homes, lives, and histories. Belle Boggs, Camille T. Dungy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Terry Tempest Williams, among others, reclaim places that have always been theirs alongside established voices in the area.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan witnesses environmental racism while watching the police of Detroit and finds connection with her family and neighbors. Toni Jensen examines Native culture's disappearance on college campuses and questions concepts of safety in the face of sexual and gun violence. Through the prism of a developing neurological condition, Laurie Clements Lambeth depicts the strength and fragility of the human body. Shuchi Saraswat's travel to the Bay Area to photograph a Ganesha ritual takes her on her own return journey.
These articles, which were first published in the pages of Ecotone, an award-winning literary journal that reimagines location, chronicle how women shape and are formed by their settings in unique ways. They incite fresh debates by demonstrating how we shape our identities through bigger cultural issues in our bodies, neighborhoods, and the natural environment.
