Asha Dore’s  project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is an autoethnography titled Gravity that focuses on weird crime in Florida, class, and neurodivergence.  In her conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they discuss why her father became involved with a Colombian cartel, what her hometown of Pensacola, Florida is like, and why poetics is an important aspect of her writing. “I think resilience is great, but also sometimes the hard things that happen to us tear us up and we are changed. And I don’t know that it always makes us stronger. But I think that if we survive them, then we have survived and we can think about it a little bit and talk about it in different ways. ”

Music by Greg Kramer, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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