Status Updates From A Fighting Dream: The Polit...

Loved! A collection of Jones writings from '37 to '65 touching on everything from war and lynchings to misogynoir, labor rights, and fascism. All of which feel dishearteningly apt to current times. This play is in fact about us!

"Visit to the USSR"! Claudia Jones lays out the delicate balance of an impatient restlessness for immediate sweeping change-- that which powers this dramatic transformation-- with the slow and steady, disciplined trudge that is required for long term change. "When a visitor comments on some outstanding achievement or trait or heroism, the Soviet will say 'Perhaps we are to close to ourselves to see what you see.'"

i really slowed down but i will finish this... it's just, information dense and data heavy. very key lessons here nonetheless

today was mostly a journaling day

starting from beginning again... gotta finish all these unfinished books