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Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities to make sense of our lives.

Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check-an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized gender-to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing.

Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with cancer, where she chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable disease and turns to alternative obsessions and pleasures, from travel and friendships to her four chickens.