Prelude In writing this piece, I owe an immense debt to Zakiyyah Jackson and her piece “Animal: New Directions in the Theorization of Race and Posthumanism“, which you should all read. Right now. Read it. …….. Ok, so you’ve read it? Now we can discuss the issue I’m raising here. So, there are those… Read More
safe travels
There is a triangle of light caressing the bottom corner my bedroom window. Everything is cream-white-beige calm. After the thirst of winter (of a lifetime of winters), I feel the spring melt deliciously into my mind, my skin, my heart, my bones. I dream of water. Torrents of it, relentless waves of it churning in… Read More
Your friends with white privilege might not be coming with you
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the trajectory of the last few years. Of friendships made, broken, re-made. Some lost, some which went down in a spiral of flames. Others which have struggled but come out way stronger in the end. And I have a lot of insight, now, into how white people in… Read More