Our Air Olivia Elias Maureen Shaughnessy‘Going To Malang’ by

Maureen Shaughnessy‘Going To Malang’ by Yusi Pareanom tr

haar op de hielen zit

Taking the cleaving mechanism of translation as a point of departure (“ossia” means “or rather” and is used to indicate an alternative way of playing a passage in a musical score)

layered meanings that nest within the anguish that is english

Translated by Jeffrey Angles

Our Air Olivia Elias Maureen Shaughnessy‘Going To Malang’ byNora Treatbaby Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box stores and suburban parking lots coexist alongside the instructive silence of juniper trees and a pulsing waterfall, Our Air sketches the possibilities of eco and social interdependence during late stage capitalism. Their inscriber, Nora Treatbaby, is a trans woman reckoning with the constraints of gender categories, when being a woman is an implausible dream and an insane