Composing at the Kitchen Table

| The kitchen table is an object that challenges notions regarding what counts as space for composing practices, in part because it is an object often associated with oppressive representations of domesticity. Therefore, women who choose or prioritize the kitchen table as a creative space practice a particular form of resistant cultural work that intertwines their composing practices with their everyday, lived experiences. The kitchen table then becomes a space through which feminisms are practiced and shaped by the table, making the table a space of resistance against hegemonic notions of what counts as feminist practice. keywords | feminisms, writing, tables, space, homeplace, resistance Figure 1: From April 26, 2018: the author's kitchen table as it looked when this article was first composed, scattered with her writing materials (laptop, paper, pens) and everyday ephemera. Copyright, Rhiannon Scharnhorst, 2019.