Katie McClellan > Recent Status Updates

“…our era’s migration crisis is not marked by human mobility but rather the reality of mass displacement and immobility, produced by the multifarious and interwoven systems of globalized capitalism, imperialism, and climate catastrophe.”

Crazy that migration is a natural phenomenon in nature (including humans) and yet we are so concerned with stopping and regulating it.

“Intervention in Afghanistan rarely receives media attention anymore, even though civilians killed by U.S. backed forces and air strikes in Afghanistan in 2019 outnumbered those killed by the taliban or isis.” (Written in 2020 before we pulled out) crazy tho

“The convergence of “tough on crime” and “tough on immigration” sustains racialized control, while also ensuring a compliant labor force through the containment of surplus labor that exists alongside the outsourcing of maquiladora labor and the insourcing of migrant labor. Mass incarceration and mass deportation within neoliberalism thus serve as key techniques of conterminous social and labor control.”

First gen Border patrol agents were apparently kkk members and Texas rangers (rangers kidnapped runaway slaves, hunted and murdered indigenous ppl and Mexicans living in contested Texas territory)

“We did not cross the border, the border crossed us” excellent way to describe migration in America, white settler colonialists annexed Texas and forced everyone living there including native peoples to become “American” or be deported from their homes, sometimes they were forced anyway and violently so.

OMFG READ THIS not that the ending was anything crazy, I’m just so in love with this storytelling and narration, like how is it so calm and yet also violent? The womanhood on display, even as our main character knows nothing of such things, claims to love no one. Harpman writes beautifully, but succinctly and I would recommend this book to anyone!

Ahh I can’t even talk abt it without spoiling but it’s looking like we never find out WHY any of this is happening and that’s gonna drive me nuts but also I’m obsessed I love the voice of this narrator (it’s first person)

I’m hooked

“No one had ever looked at me before Suzanne, not really, so she had become my definition.”

I love an unreliable narrator, this book was so good, perfect pacing and a good mix of flashbacks and current povs. Loved Cline’s prose (some great lines like the one above) and her understanding of girlhood, both the magic and the madness.