Jonathan Alexander is an alien friend, one whose writing is a morse code that allows us to commune with him intimately across so many forms of difference. ~ Tom Lutz, American Book Award winner and author, most recently, of Aimlessness and Born Slippy More than an examination of bullying and its dynamics, it is part memoir, part auto-analysis, part theoretical exploration, part jeremiad, and part ecstasis-a book that brilliantly examines desire, trauma, hate, longing, and the necessity and the impossibility of fully understanding our overdetermined, overwhelming, overstuffed, always underarticulated individual stories as they are structured and restructured by systems of power, violence, oppression, and, finally, resistance.” “Jonathan Alexander has always been a provocative, scintillating writer, but with Bullied he has joined the ranks of our finest essayists.