Sublime

I even felt protective of him in that moment, surprised, and slightly awed, by the fact that he held on to such grand visions of what life could offer.

a profoundly unequal place, Whiteness is supposed to mean something. Whenever that is threatened, a hot resentment bubbles.

“The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and ‘You’re looking good, Mr. Keating.’”

These youth are born into environments of state-sanctioned deprivation, or “organized abandonment,” as political geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls it.

I listened to the Coup and read everything James Baldwin had written that summer. I learned you haven’t read anything if you’ve only read something once or twice. Reading things more than twice was the reader version of revision. I read The Fire Next Time over and over again. I wondered how it would read differently had the entire book, and not jus

The freedom of disregard.