I was watching Hamilton last night when the song “The World Turned Upside Down” came on. The title moved me because that phrase sums up the last ten months in America neatly. Scratch that; the past four years. I feel as if we’ve been living in a complicated, emotionally draining, kind of scary dream. It’s …
Kindergarten Eve
Dear Bananas, I am writing this from my bed, having checked on you three times already and using this message as an excuse to avoid a fourth. You’re beautiful when you’re sleeping, by the way. Always; but in those peaceful moments when your body is at rest, you’re angelic. I am amazed we made you and …
A Black Man was Lynched in America Yesterday.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the …