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On being held captive
A free write-on capitalism, marriage, and histories of abuse
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Here everyone is a coward and no one is free
Even that which is calcified remains soft and penetrable at its core.
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In the year of our lord, 2023 I created a life worth living
The Year in Review (it's long and best read in your browser)
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Then, I had to sit right here
Autumn opens the portal to liminality and we prepare to endure a dark season, yet again
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Everyone you're looking at is also you
"The world is held together, really it is, held together by the love and passion of a very few people." -- James Baldwin
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"For where two or three are gathered together [in my name], there am I in the midst of them"
On collective Black joy, the spiritual power of gathering, and the Black Artistic Brain Trust (tm)
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July/August 2023 Camera Roll Dump
Somehow, summer is nearing it's end.
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On the occasion of my birth
"When I like men I want to be like them."- F. Scott Fitzgerald (by way of Margo Jefferson)
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May/June 2023 Camera Roll Dump
Remember when we used to do camera roll dumps? I miss that
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Last night, I dreamt I was a seal
On stress dreams and transitions
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A Wild, Precious Life
On having absolutely no idea what I'm doing but loving every second of the uncertainty of it all
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Notes on a Practice
I've been thinking a lot about Blackness as a technology for human evolution. This is the first in a series of essays exploring this framework.
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Notes from the New World
Various musings on American life from artist Oriana Koren
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