Perish the Thought | Lydia Yolan | Substack

Black Lives Matter, the three-fifths compromise, identity donation

Apr 4 •

Towards a definition thereof, practical in contemporary social questioning

Apr 24 •

Parenting, child-ing, and a touch of Beloved

Apr 3 •

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discursive parity

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Review: "Fashioning" @ New Orleans Museum of Art

Upon exiting "Fashioning America: From Grit to Glamor" at New Orleans Museum of Art, one faces the so-called Queen of Carnival, a free, white, and 21…

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descendance: a case study in the danger of safe space

The confusion of safety for freedom is the root of all evil. Freedom is a spatial concern bound to our ability to come and go at will, but space is…

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Is there a such thing as too far gone?

Octavia Butler, moral absolutism, Carlee Russell, the Unknowable

Jul 25, 2023 •

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near death, emergency brakes, the 8th anniversary of my first publication that almost wasn't

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on being alive and having to deal with each other

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Perish the Thought

Perish the Thought

Eulogies for the thoughts that didn't/couldn't/shouldn't/won't make it.

Perish the Thought

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