A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because “you look suspicious.” I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.
You know you’ve reached peak cat-lady status when you get an email from a coworker saying they found a video and thought of you, and it’s the cat dad from TikTok 😅
"I had another dream that my teeth fell out. This time, it was all of them." - @joourdin
Read Jordan N. Rindenow's poem, "Toothless: A Haunting," and more in our Fall 2020 issue--out now! https://t.co/6zKWJzdlhK
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@kenyonreview High school was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. College was Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Grad School was The Love of My Life by Cheryl Strayed.