The Attention Archive
by shayla lawson (MX. DOS)in 🏝 Travel
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The Attention Archive
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The last free country is the one behind your own eyes. Essays on attention, sovereignty, and becoming someone the world has no name for yet.
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About shayla lawson (MX. DOS)
Shayla Lawson (MX. DOS): poet, essayist, foreign entity. NBCC and Lambda finalist. Nonbinary, disabled, sovereign—writing freedom, the body, and the machine from the far side of the gate.
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