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A Fish Out of Water: A Word-Lover Takes On STEM
By
Vanessa Smiley
| April 25, 2018
Numbers confuse me, science eludes me, but fortunately I possess the “useless” ability to hear the rhythm between words and read too deeply into texts — to transform the female body into a gesture of capitalist resistance, a character’s mixed skin tone into the embodiment of hybridity, a spectral figure into the enduring presence of our past or — if I’m feeling particularly misanthropic — the nonhuman, neoliberal Other. I have worried, of course, about finding a job, because I presume that not many companies are seeking to hire someone with my qualifications.
