Harper Lewis
Bio
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Eve Speaks
So there we were, hanging out in the garden, everything perfect, one day seamlessly melting into another when I noticed the caterpillars eating the apples, boring great holes through them, filling the air with the sweetest, most beautiful fragrance I had ever smelled. It smelled clean and crisp, not cloying like the sweet gardenias and jasmine. I kept coming back to smell the wonderful fruit that someone said we weren’t supposed to eat.
By Harper Lewis3 months ago in Chapters
Harper Saves the Day
Finding the bar at the Hilton empty, we decided to see what was going on at Confluence, the Catawba Riverkeeper bar in Cramerton. The band was still playing, but things were winding down, and when I say band, I mean a dude playing acoustic guitar and another dude on standup bass.
By Harper Lewis3 months ago in Humans
Constantine’s
My husband and I went out this evening to promote me as a writer. We were planning to go to the bar at the Hilton—travelers, people from everywhere, but my instincts led us to the local Turkish restaurant, Constantine’s, first. We were planning to have their phenomenal falafel, which is an appetizer, so I headed for the bar while my husband parked the car.
By Harper Lewis3 months ago in Feast
Ai Misogyny is Human Misogyny . AI-Generated.
Why AI Image Systems Produce Misogynistic Tropes as a Structural Feature Artificial intelligence systems that generate images do not simply sometimes produce misogynistic results—they do so by design, even if unintentionally. Misogyny is not an accident within their functioning; it is a predictable consequence of the data, architectures, and institutional priorities that form the foundation of current generative technologies. The user’s explicit instructions to avoid sexist or objectifying depictions rarely override the biases that are deeply baked into the system’s learned representations of gender. To understand this, we must confront how misogyny becomes embedded at every layer: in the data, in the model’s internal logic, and in the sociotechnical structures that sustain it.
By Harper Lewis3 months ago in Humans
Persephone Speaks. Content Warning.
People have a lot of different names for me: Persephone, Kore, Eve, just to name a few. Oh, did you think we were different? Should I have fed your Adam a pomegranate instead of an apple? Would that have made it more clear that there’s really only one story, exile from the garden? And it’s been mistold, time out of mind. Why? Because somewhere along the way, we allowed the foolish men to become the scribes and tell the stories.
By Harper Lewis3 months ago in Chapters
