Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
we insist Black being into the wake.
Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
She had the impulse to ask her professor “whether women were somehow always already dead,
Alice Bolin • Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
be noticed from afar.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
She had been cast out of her own existence. This was what accidents, injury, trauma did to people, she knew; it dislocated them from a continuous narrative,
Jean McNeil • The Dhow House
Then damage is not “just what happens,” but rather is the residue that keeps on keeping on.
James Hollis • Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
Laura Hershey. Leroy Moore. Qwo-Li Driskill. Aurora Levins Morales. Billie Rain. Dani Montgomery. Nomy Lamm. Cheryl Marie Wade. Emi Koyama. Pat Parker. Tatiana de la tierra. Raymond Luczak. Anne Finger. Leslie Feinberg, who died of Lyme disease. Peggy Munson. Beth Brant. Vickie Sears.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
he reminds listeners that perhaps they have lost something, or someone, as well, but have not noticed it. Before the search can begin, we need to notice what, or who, is not there.
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
