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“unlike the organizing principles of a bildungsroman, minor feelings are not generated from major change but from lack of change, in particular, structural racial and economic change. rather than using racial trauma as a dramatic stage for individual growth, the literature of minor feelings explores the trauma of a racist capitalist system that keeps the individual in check.”

“I suspected that if a reader read my poem and then saw my name, the fuse of the poem would blow out, leading the reader to think, I thought I liked the poem but on second thought, I can't relate to it. But what proof did I have of this?
How did I know it wasn't simply because I had no talent?
The problem was that I didn't know.”

why did it take seán so long to realize that whatever elias was going through was not something to be fixed? why are we so terrible at listening to others?

a bit disappointed that Renu’s secret was revealed quite abruptly, but still very much enjoy

i can’t tell whose secrets i like better, the mom’s or her gay son’s

“the only thing worse than a straight white man was a gay one—because gay white men conceal their racism with sequins, while straight ones wear it proudly on their sleeves” ok i like this book already

unfortunately, these powerful businesspeople have gotten so good at appropriating the language of social justice, squashing the real form of collective action while promoting their own philanthrocapitalist version of it…