You don’t look sick.

Song: “Save the Children” by Marvin Gaye

Poem: “To Those of You Alive in the Future” by Dean Young

CW: Illness, gentrification, profanity

This became a pretty long post for something that started on my phone while I was at the ER! It also gets a little rant-y at the end, though I did cut a lot of it. And now you are forewarned.

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Khadijah in black (left) and Jodi-Ann Burry (right) in silk shirt and tweed skirt and glasses, both smiling in front of shelves of books and a display of Khadijah's book in the center With Jodi-Ann Burey, my esteemed host and conversation partner at Third Place Books Ravenna, ...
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Published on August 18, 2025 10:05
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