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Now that I& #39;m awake on regular Kenyan time.
I skimmed Wilderson& #39;s forthcoming book. With the same skill and energy I used to skim books in grad school and after.
I skimmed Wilderson& #39;s forthcoming book. With the same skill and energy I used to skim books in grad school and after.
Also, with the very same reservoir of knowledge I use to read other books.
And with the same brain.
And with the same brain.
If you have not read the book or skimmed it, I think you should reserve judgment.
Based on my skimming, I think the title is misleading, and that it promises something the book cannot deliver.
Were I very generous, I& #39;d say the book is something like Audre Lorde& #39;s biomythography.
Unlike Lorde& #39;s work, though, it misrecognizes its genre and purpose.
Unlike Lorde& #39;s work, though, it misrecognizes its genre and purpose.
I think books find their audiences, and those audiences are helped by those books.
I hope this book will find its audience. I am not its audience. That& #39;s okay.
I hope this book will find its audience. I am not its audience. That& #39;s okay.
And I hope that even as the book finds its audience, we have the grace to hold on to Lorde& #39;s lesson: we work across difference with people who share the same goal. Freedom.
Because, honestly, getting into weird fights over x or y theoretical school because we cannot learn the *difficulty* of working across difference is silly.
Silly is the best word I have.
Silly is the best word I have.
It seems I have a little more energy!
I think it& #39;s dangerous to title a memoir after a theory.
We& #39;re already seeing that confusion, where those who critique the memoir we& #39;ve read or skimmed are being accused of misunderstanding and critiquing the theory. And the person now *embodied* as the theory.
We& #39;re already seeing that confusion, where those who critique the memoir we& #39;ve read or skimmed are being accused of misunderstanding and critiquing the theory. And the person now *embodied* as the theory.
Anyhow, you& #39;re clever people and can probably figure out the range of complications that will arise in such a scenario.
I am now going to eat cake.
Also, please see the beginning of this thread and note *where* I am tweeting from.
I have zero stakes in U.S. institutional politics and hierarchy policing. Zero.
I have zero stakes in U.S. institutional politics and hierarchy policing. Zero.
