wrote my first substack post/essay! I decided to preface my more in depth essays with a quick rumination of the times. I’d really appreciate if y’all checked it out & maybe subscribe! ❤️
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dickens and Dostoevsky who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people ... who had ever been alive.” James Baldwin, LIFE Magazine, 1963
I read native son by richard wright as a kid and immediately understood how we could adopt such a word under the cruelest of conditions. if it’s one thing I get pissed at is people poking fun at black pain. if anything is self deprecating, it’s that
One of the saddest things about liberating yourself from internal biases like internal misogyny/anti-blackness/fatphobia/etc. is #noticing how many people just don’t care to be saved from them lol. You’re locking yourself in a cage + subjecting others to it like WHY