Sublime

Epistemicide is at the heart of colonization, but we cannot decolonize our minds by unknowing modernity. Like it or not, your belonging is dependent on a reclamation of the dismissed ancient and a reconciliation with the dominant modern.

is founded on both the elevation of whiteness to cult status in order to instill a sense of superior national identity and the pursuit of conflict abroad to confer a sense of purpose at home.

This is the dirty secret about freedom of speech; rather than being an ideal, it is a litmus test of a society’s prejudices.

The main problem was that accounts of Iraqi defectors were regurgitated by government officials, the neutrality of which the New York Times simply assumed. Consequently, they reprinted officials’ claims about weapons of mass destruction without sufficient question.

Rather than simply redrawing boundaries of normality to be more inclusive, new weird fiction might map the same strangeness certain subjects have historically been afforded onto other subjects, in order to acknowledge the inherent strangeness of any such constructs—especially those drawn along the lines of race, gender, class, or ability. In other

Crenshaw writes: We all can recognize the distinction between the claims “I am Black” and the claim “I am a person who happens to be Black.” “I am Black” takes the socially imposed identity and empowers it as an anchor of subjectivity. “I am Black” becomes not simply a statement of resistance but also a positive discourse of self-identification,