Abstract This article reflects on violence committed against travestis, examining a series of murders together with narratives regarding violence, to see where these events and stories lead, formulate related questions. Through this movement, the research develops such questions as: what are motives behind travesties, do tell us? If is expressive - in other words, if it tells us something sayin...

Jennifer Vines This is the fi rst of 12 Correspondence pieces in this issue that are in response to an important PLoS Medicine Research Article: Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, et al. (2005) Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: The ANRS 1265 trial. PLoS Med 2(11): e298. Readers wishing to add their own ...

Laura Apol’s Poetry, Poetic Inquiry and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others (2021) traces author’s long relationship survivors 1994 Rwanda holocaust in which thousands Tutsi were murdered by their neighbors, examines ways her personal uses poetry for coping painful subject matter became a longitudinal poetic inquiry. This review responds to themes relational inquiry development craft sugg...

What is it to be clear? And will that question have the same answer in science, poetry, and philosophy? This paper offers a taxonomy of clarity, before focusing on two notions are pertinent clarity and, particular, philosophy. It argues “scientific clarity,” which marked by its reliance technical terms, is, though often appropriate, not only way something can clear. In poetry entirely eschews t...