Specimen : personal essays / Madison Hamill.

Includes bibliographical references.

The new leadership -- Suspending belief -- Rules -- Speculative fiction -- The scare-cat -- Khayelitsha Takeaway -- Wo(und)man -- Bloodhounds -- Specimen -- Iceland -- The participant -- I will never hit on you -- Adventure time -- Brief intervention -- Ethnography of a Ranfurly man -- The wilderness.

"A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar ... In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp eye. Was she good or evil? Ignorant or enlightened? What parts of herself did she give up in order to forge ahead in school, church, work, and relationships, with a self that made sense to others?"--Inside back cover.