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Item Open Access Constellations(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Todd, Michael, author; Steensen, Sasha, advisor; Lehene, Marius, committee member; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee memberConstellations is a researched book-length lyric essay concerning notions of faith and belief weighed against science and the bodily experience, of layers of meaning, of personal truth. The piece takes the form of "constellations" of text in place of stars. The text appears on 4x6" cards against a black background with speckled white to indicate "space"; white lines suggest an assembly which corresponds to a map with instructions. However, the same instructions encourage user agency in how to assemble and navigate the work—flipping through the cards in a numbered sequence, or in a random sequence, or assembling them according to the map, or assembling them as they, the audience, see fit.Item Restricted Names we gave the North Star(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Stopher, Aliceanna, author; Doenges, Judy, advisor; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee member; Vasudevan, Ramaa, committee memberThis thesis is interested in names. This thesis is interested in girls and women. This thesis is interested in kin. This thesis is interested in divination, in lightness, in knowing. This thesis is interested in memory–its inexactness, its gaps, in the push-pull between truth and speculation, in how much that may or may not matter. This thesis is interested in hybridity. The stories and essays in this collection seek to blur between true and untrue as a reflection of memory as constellation of facts, conjecture, and dreams. Find here mountains that are and are not my mountains, homes that are and are not my homes. Know there is a presence, my presence, on the other side of each page. Come closer. Press your palm against each page, feel the warmth of mine from the other side. Make yourself at home here.Item Restricted Relations(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Marquez-Uppman, Julia, author; Vara, Vauhini, advisor; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee member; DeMirjyn, Maricela, committee memberThis memoir-in-essays explores questions of family, grief, and identity through various formal innovations. The first few essays examine identity formation through the concepts of place, lineage, inheritance, and home. In the latter half of the collection, the essays then shift to deeper questions of relationality, interdependence, and art (storytelling, music-making) as modes of constructing the self.Item Restricted Something in the bone: stories(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Greenlee, Benjamin Mace, author; Altschul, Andrew, advisor; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee member; Bunn, David, committee memberA collection of eight fictional stories exploring what it means to be human in an often inhumane world. Written in a variety of points-of-view and styles, these stories examine relationships, gender, violence, the environment, and self-hood, all in an effort to offer solace for the negative emotions we all feel.Item Open Access What we can't avoid(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Oshiki, Julia, author; Levy, EJ, advisor; Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee member; Harman, Jennifer, committee memberWhat We Can't Avoid is a memoir that explores the narrator's excavation of family dynamics, and who her parents are and grow to become as she comes into adulthood. This memoir is a collection of personal essays that come together to create four chapters. The first is a focus on the narrator's mother, and her journey through infidelity, divorce, and an emotionally abusive relationship. The second chapter looks at the father, his affair, the effect of his career as a doctor in the Army, and the tension between his ego and his love for his family. The third chapter breaks away from the parents and zeroes in on the narrator and her older sister, exploring how girlhood and family trauma inform the coming into adulthood, and how these sisters may break away from the roles they were assigned in their family unit. The fourth and final chapter offers a brief look at how each member of this family might move forward from the fracturing that has occurred over several years, and how they might each achieve self-actualization and empathetic perseverance.