"I’m deeply aware of how the classics I’ve loved are flawed. Books are cultural artifacts, and I’m resistant to the idea of a book that’s timeless." An interview with Virginia-based poet, writer, and critic @murderopilcrows.
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Tomorrow is the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of insulin.
In 1921, insulin’s discoverers sold its patent for $1 so insulin would be affordable to all.
Today, a single vial of insulin that lasts me about a week is priced at $300+, only in the United States.
I want to say more about this even if perhaps I shouldn’t. Black Americans are amongst the most astute political and social observers of American power because our survival has and still depends on it.
When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about it or if you went away.
―Sara Ahmed, from Living a Feminist Life
Excuse me while I re-post this essay every time I get a direct message from a troll/ hateful/ MAGA reader telling me to *go back where I came from* and *so what* if Asian-Americans experience hate, etc.
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I am honoured to be one of the few asked to come to Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, to witness, to tell the story of all our relations. We grieve. We love and we demand justice. It’s time to bring our children home from the residential schools https://t.co/IxTpDCO4OO
Anyways, I’m home, groggy & grumpy & I should put myself to bed before I say something I might regret about school boards cancelling an opportunity to educate kids on Indigenous issues on the heels of the Kamloops discovery. Cause that only took four days for the caring to end.
Required reading!! Because “no, she hasn’t met him....But every woman knows the man.” Shame is our longest shadow and @hinxminx is such a bright sun. Just devastatingly perfect.
The Man: A Compilation | Kenyon Review Online https://t.co/blsOpWXNVk