I stopped using Spotify, so I had to rebuild my playlist. It’s about as long as the old one, almost 7 hours. So enjoy Slowjams for the Longstroke. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD93CE6376687758C&feature=share
Indeed, Patterson himself disavows this application of social death to Black people post-emancipation and states his reasons for doing so, collectively referencing the various ways in which Black people have ostensibly been folded into civil society. But this itself invokes a conflation between the distilled social death and an analysis…
A short public service announcement to vegans who backwards rationalize their eating habits, making it look more like an eating disorder than a rational choice: It’s bad enough that on the surface, preachy vegans seem to decide that sacrificing a thousand bees is worth saving one chicken. The truth behind…
We are not friends if I can’t trust you while I am awake or asleep, present or absent, strong or weak. We are not friends if the magnetic north of your moral compass is more dependent on the letter of the law or worse, the whims of politicians and law…
It is something all children of Oya, especially if you are intersex, nonbinary, or otherwise variable in gender, have to cope with if we survive long enough. Since there aren’t many elders left to discuss these things in English out in public, and more people are Vodun or at least…
Recently, I became aware that among other things the older generation failed to tell the younger, few are telling the masculine that they are excess. Nature has provided many, many more penetrators than are needed to keep their counterparts happy, and fewer penetratees than would keep penetrators happy. The world…
