02267cam a2200325 i 4500 924387206 TxAuBib 20230828120000.0 221028s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022049873 9780593317457 HRD 26.00 0593317459 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda Shapland, Jenn, 1987-, author Thin skin. Essays Selections. Thin skin [BOOK] : essays / Jenn Shapland. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2023] xiii, 270 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270). Thin skin -- Strangers on a train -- The toomuchness -- Crystal vortex -- The meaning of life. For Jenn Shapland, the barrier between herself and the world is porous; she was even diagnosed with extreme dermatologic sensitivity—thin skin. Recognizing how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings, she becomes aware of the impacts our tiniest choices have on people, places, and species far away. She can't stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable. Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire. She traces the legacies of nuclear weapons development on Native land, unable to let go of her search for contamination until it bleeds out into her own family’s medical history. She questions the toxic myth of white womanhood and the fear of traveling alone that she’s been made to feel since girlhood. And she explores her desire to build a creative life as a queer woman, asking whether such a thing as a meaningful life is possible under capitalism. Provided by publisher. 20230828. Boundaries (Psychology.) American essays 21st century. Essays.