The Suicide Survivor's Guide to Crafts

Authors

  • Joshua Adair Murray State University

Keywords:

crafting, homosexuality, grief

Abstract

Written as a personal narrative, this essay explores the possibility of crafting as a coping mechanism of mourning by examining the relationship between the author and his mother-in-law aftet the suicide of his partner. Ultimately refusing to valorize crafting as a transformative or life-saving endeavor while still acknowledging its worth as a mode of living in times of trauma and otherwise, the author engages dark humor and sarcasm to look at how we craft our lives despite terrible loss.

Author Biography

Joshua Adair, Murray State University

Assistant Professor of English

Director, Racer Writing Center

Coordinator, Gender and Diversity Studies

Published

2015-10-09

Issue

Section

Issue #14: Craft Rhetoric