...6The Vulnerability Artist nao BuSTaManTe and The Sad BeauTy of reParaTion n the 1992 video Rosa Does Joan, Nao Bustamante s performance persona Rosa appears on the comedian and home shopping maven Joan Rivers s then daytime talk show. She poses as an exhibitionist who shares her sex- ual tales and...

...329 The Sad End of Jacques Stephen Alexis Edouard Duval-Carrié In this painting Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié depicts the poet Jacques Ste- phen Alexis as a martyr to the Duvalier regime. Alexis was killed after being captured as part of a small force that had disembarked in Haiti from Cuba...

...22WRITING ABOUT BAD, SAD, HARD THINGS Carole McGranahan Writing is not always easy. Sometimes the writing flows, and sometimes it doesn t. But writing about things that are emotionally weighty, heavy, and disturbing is a diff er ent kind of not easy. Monday morning at my home in Colorado, I wrote a...