Sublime

able to “reobjectify” this man who day-to-day is so familiar.

gained an outsized faith in articulation itself as its own form of protection.

rapacious,

The self is not a fixed, organic thing, but a dramatic effect that emerges from a performance. This effect can be believed or disbelieved at will.

Each human being is multidimensional and contradictory, with what Avery Gordon describes as a “complex personhood”:

This, it would seem, is yet another example of white privilege—to retain humanity in the face of inhumanity. For criminals who defy our understanding of danger, the cultural threshold for forgiveness is incredibly low.

You can work to make a safe environment, but if the teachings at hand are meant to rattle, people are going to feel rattled.

‘one’s humanity is simultaneously shared and singular’ (Jackson, 2002: 142).

Like Sappho, she pursues love as an “absolute emptiness which is also absolute fullness.”