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"How is the systematic erosion of freedoms gradually accomplished?" --Audre Lorde, "Apartheid U.S.A."

it's much better than the typical "stereotypes are bad, don't believe them"

I like this structure: "even if you DO believe . . . begin to PRACTICE ACTING like you don't"

"Even if you do believe any of these stereotypes about Black Lesbians, begin to practice acting like you don't believe them" --A. Lorde

I'm happy to share my new book "The Appearance of Black Lives Matter," a free e-book from NAME Publications. It... http://fb.me/1zlKAfmsY 

(What kind of system grants one person so much power? What configuration of the world?)

I am much more interested with "thinking with." That makes sense.

Now that I'm slightly older, I am less impressed--and sometimes unimpressed--by such writing.

It is not a "thinking with" or even a "to be thought with."

It becomes, in that moment, a nice aesthetic object. I like aesthetic objects. But that is what it is.

I think about a certain category of theoretical writing as writing that can only be cited as is. It cannot be worked with.

I suspect that being asked to do so would be good for those ideas.

I suspect it might be very useful for people who are considered theoretical to be asked to clarify their ideas.

Something that is not said often enough in spaces considered "theoretical."

"You are very clever. No one understands anything you write or say."