The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies
Honey, our protagonist, is on the run from both her past and her present; avoiding questions about love, bodies, language, and the extents of all three. But her friends—the impish Maenads—refuse to just let her escape. The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies is a feminist, queer, maximalist piece—spanning caves, hills, courtrooms, and kitchens—about a woman torn by her desires, unwilling to bend to the needs of men, yet hesitant in the face of her wildness.
Meg Whiteford is a writer, art critic, and editor. She is the Editor at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she edits exhibition catalogues and didactics and the Museum's biannual magazine, Studio. She has written for Artforum, Aperture, The Believer, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, GARAGE, Liber, X-TRA, and more. She is the author of The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies (Plays Inverse, 2015), the Curator's Choice for the BAM Next Wave Festival Reading Room; and Callbacks (&Now Books, Northwestern University Press, 2018), recipient of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Prize.
