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I skimmed Wilderson's forthcoming book. With the same skill and energy I used to skim books in grad school and after.
I skimmed Wilderson'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'd say the book is something like Audre Lorde's biomythography.
Unlike Lorde's work, though, it misrecognizes its genre and purpose.
Unlike Lorde'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's okay.
I hope this book will find its audience. I am not its audience. That's okay.
And I hope that even as the book finds its audience, we have the grace to hold on to Lorde'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's dangerous to title a memoir after a theory.
We're already seeing that confusion, where those who critique the memoir we've read or skimmed are being accused of misunderstanding and critiquing the theory. And the person now *embodied* as the theory.
We're already seeing that confusion, where those who critique the memoir we've read or skimmed are being accused of misunderstanding and critiquing the theory. And the person now *embodied* as the theory.
Anyhow, you'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.
