FROM OUR NEW SHORT STORY SERIES, 'IMAGINING OTHER WORLDS': "The weather wanted everyone in the state of Ohio to remember Henry Clement Strudel. For weeks plump, gray clouds carried heavy July rain and the sky wailed for justice."
The relationship between Esperanza and Dion can be viewed to challenge the typical representation of disability while also encouraging nuance, accountability and change.
When we consider the dangers of the underrepresentation of marginalized people, we can’t ignore the potential danger in the overrepresentation of people in power.
Yes, 18 is the legal threshold from childhood to adulthood, but legality has never been something that applied “equally" to Black children, especially Black Queer children.
When we collapse children’s autonomy in both fictive and lived realities, we undermine their ability to contemplate nuance.
I'm distasteful of the comic trope of for succeeding white men because I believe this is one of many strategies white people have adopted to cope with their mortality, and keeping us bound to them in servitude
Taylor Swift is not copying Beyoncé. She’s mocking Beyoncé. This difference assumes a level of intent that brings forth deliberate malice and cultural disruption.
Marvel hates fat people, which is why there are no fat characters in the films except for in the background where they are either bad at their jobs, bad people, or the butt of a joke. Marvel, like superhero culture more generally, is obsessed with an idealized standard of beauty that expects hypersexuality from women, and hyper masculinity from men.
As social media made me more cognizant of the atrocities of state-sanctioned violence, my thoughts began to grow darker. My soft optimist soon crystallized into a hardened soul.
The ancestors aren’t seen as a template of how to behave but represent a set of values and ideals with which to guide the living.
