James Baldwin said, “To try to be a writer...was political, whether one liked it or not; because if one is doing anything at all, one is trying to change the consciousness of other people. You’re trying also to change your own consciousness.” Writing, like politics, is educative.
If you're going to (re)read Parable of the Sower, I'd suggest pairing it with solarpunk stories. It's all too easy to focus solely on a horrific future. Better futures are possible, we can imagine & create them.
What, to George Floyd, is your 4th of July? What, to Breonna Taylor, is your 4th of July? What, to Ahmaud Arbery, is your 4th of July? What, to a Palestinian, is your 4th of July? What, to a Haitian, is your 4th of July?
These are not historical questions!
Toni Morrison said that fascism “is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship,” and “changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good.”
You may have heard the term “Project 2025” floating around, and you may even have cracked open the 900+ page document yourself, only to see a lot of kind of bland, policy-wonk text. So let me crack through the policy-speak and tell you WTF is in this document.
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