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"One moment his body was the locus of his personhood, the next moment our memories had to pick up the slack."

"Fear of Black people is one of the grandest delusions of white supremacy. It’s the reason why even police officers of color—Black, Asian, and Latino—are often quick on the trigger when they are policing Black men....
White fear of Black people is not limited to white Americans. It is rooted in the ideology of white supremacy, a virus that infects us all."

"I’m a feminist who cannot reconcile my desire for my nation state to intervene on my behalf with the woke analysis feminism has bequeathed me about the perils of getting in bed at any level with the logics of patriarchy and militarism. For these things might protect you one minute and kill you the next."

My books read is currently at 50% female authors. :)

"That’s why beauty can never be about preference. “I just like what I like” is always a capitalist lie.... Capital demands that beauty be coercive. If beauty matters at all to how people perceive you, how institutions treat you, which rules are applied to you, and what choices you can make, then beauty must also be a structure of patterns, institutions, and exchanges that eats your preferences for lunch."

"Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history."

"Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the
familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing."