{"id":83,"date":"2022-05-09T04:27:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T04:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:16:37","slug":"desperate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-3\/desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">by\u00a0Izabella Balcer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-85 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2022\/05\/Desperate-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Words, letters, and images drawn and cut mixed together on paper, beginning &quot;I've felt displaced and dumped...&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2022\/05\/Desperate-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2022\/05\/Desperate-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2022\/05\/Desperate-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2022\/05\/Desperate.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I am navigating my experience as a Neurodivergent, Queer, and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Generation human through written word, collage, and accessible material. &#8220;Fine Artists&#8221; are taught to use the most expensive material as a reflection of our expertise. My family hasn&#8217;t known such luxury, and so I find the every-day newspapers and written word to be most reflective of my lived experience. <em>Desperate<\/em> trails into the long-term strain of continuing after chaos.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-3\/toc-3\/\">table of contents<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Izabella Balcer &nbsp; &nbsp; I am navigating my experience as a Neurodivergent, Queer, and 2nd\u00a0Generation human through written word, collage, and accessible material. &#8220;Fine Artists&#8221; are taught to use the most expensive material as a reflection of our expertise. My family hasn&#8217;t known such luxury, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}