Mackenzie GreggAs fireworks simulate a battlezone outside my open window, I’d like to expand my usual “Fuck July…Today, in a true display of American values, Lakota land defenders who blocked a Trump rally at “Mt. Rushmore” (He Sapa) were teargassed…6 min read·Jan 10, 2021----
Mackenzie GreggThe Poetics of Difference: AC Swinburne’s “the Leper”The first stanza of A.C. Swinburne’s “The Leper” begins with a triple articulation of the word “well:”4 min read·Aug 20, 2020----
Mackenzie GreggCancel your final!On May 31, UCR’s Black Student Union wrote an open letter to Chancellor Kim Wilcox, demanding, in light of COVID, and the rampant…8 min read·Jun 8, 2020----
Mackenzie GreggWhat if BPD actually stands for British Period Drama?I texted the above question to my roommate the other day from the lobby of my campus counseling center.7 min read·Jul 28, 2019----
Mackenzie GreggListening to Billie Eilish’s “Wish You Were Gay” On RepeatI first heard this song a couple of weeks ago at Dinah Shore weekend, the lesbian circuit party (or, as my wristband read, the “World’s…11 min read·Apr 19, 2019----
Mackenzie GreggNew Podcast: Mrs. Legendre’s<iframe width=”100%” height=”500" src=”https://player.whooshkaa.com/player/playlist/show/5793?sharing=true&visual=true" frameborder=”0"…1 min read·Jan 26, 2019----
Mackenzie GreggThoughts on the Fall and its Other in ZolaThe structuring form of of Emile Zola’s L’Assomoir is that of the fall. The seventh of his Rougon-Macquart cycle, a series of twenty serial…7 min read·Aug 15, 2018----
Mackenzie GreggVictorian Men and the Critique of Heteronormative MarriageSomething I learn as I keep reading Victorian literature is that many really interesting critiques of heteronormativity come from people…10 min read·Aug 30, 2017----
Mackenzie GreggDisillusionment: Part IWe might understand the emotional texture of disillusionment as an emptiness: to feel disillusioned is to exist within the void where our…7 min read·Aug 10, 2017----