Burley Integration

My senior photo for high school was a shot of me in a Crazy Creek chair on a rock next to a lake in Glacier National Park in Montana. More so than a glammed up version of myself, I wanted to present the rough and ready self to the world. Everyone else’s head took up the whole frame—I was a small figure with a book as big as my head in the distance. I took that same chair with me into Elephant’s Perch this past week. It still works. And when I sat in it all of those politics of identity come back just as fierce.

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