Status Updates From Thick: And Other Essays

“Beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order”

Not for me

God this book is just so good.

The false choice between black-black, and worthy black is a trap. It poses that ending Blackness was the goal of anti-racist work, when the real goal has always been and should always be ending whiteness.

Whiteness, the idea, the identity tethered to no nation of origin, no place, no God, exists only if it can expand enough to defend its position over every group that challenges the throne.