@ben_bscm : “A photograph gives shape to history; it allows us to fashion a landscape of feeling, . . . A photograph is a ladder that goes backward in time, a ladder we can push away whenever we want. With photographs, we can obscure the past as much as illuminate it.” ~Billy-Ray Belcourt • TwiCopy

Ben Bascom

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Prof. of early and 19th-century American literatures | LGBTQ studies, queer affects | wrote a book on singularity & feeling queer in early U.S. lit

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Ben Bascom

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“A photograph gives shape to history; it allows us to fashion a landscape of feeling, . . . A photograph is a ladder that goes backward in time, a ladder we can push away whenever we want. With photographs, we can obscure the past as much as illuminate it.” ~Billy-Ray Belcourt

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