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I read this long, brilliant, year-old essay by

@TochiTrueStory

& it broke me open in ways I was unprepared for & I personally need you to read it all with care & attention.

White Bears in Sugar Land: Juneteenth, Cages, and Afrofuturism

We resist enclosure. Deer roam forests. Vines colonize abandoned Coliseums. A human being held in solitary confinement will self-harm, scream, plead, kick doors, smear feces on their cell walls, an…

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I don't know how to talk dispassionately about the fact that I started reading this thinking I was engaged in an act of solidarity with Black kin only to find it scooping out the deepest-rooted pain in my heart & showing me how it was in solidarity with me.

8:47 PM · Jun 19, 2020

Maybe at some point this year Stu will be able to reliably walk into the dining room without finding me sobbing over my laptop but today was not that day.

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