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Towards a definition thereof, practical in contemporary social questioning
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Black Lives Matter, the three-fifths compromise, identity donation
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Parenting, child-ing, and a touch of Beloved
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October 2023

I want to turn you on
A collection of existential reflections on freeze tag, art, and criticism.
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September 2023

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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July 2023

Is there a such thing as too far gone?
Octavia Butler, moral absolutism, Carlee Russell, the Unknowable
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thank you in advance
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
Affirmative action, Studio Museum of Harlem, #BlackExcellence, New Orleans Museum of Art, #DismantleNOMA, Amanda Maples
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the grapple never falls far from the tree
Do affirmations work? Can white people interpret and present African Art in the United States' "most African city"? What does Angela Davis' surprise at…
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Ch-ch-ch-changes
Introducing Perish the Thought
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