HeyJaredCarmen Evelyn G. Nuyda
Writing from reinvention, stories from the marrow, and slow-burning reflections on womanhood, desire, and becoming.
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The Colonial Mentality Hidden Inside a “Compliment” (opens the original)
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There is a compliment I keep hearing lately about Alex Eala, the extraordinary Filipina tennis player who has emerged onto the world stage:“She is so articulate.”I understand the admiration.Alex Eala is articulate. She is intelligent, composed, thoughtful, and remarkably self-assured. She speaks with clarity. She carries herself with an ease that belies her age. She is capable of discussing competition, pressure, identity, ambition, and failure with a sophistication t
REDEMPTION IS NOT A RESTROSPECTIVE (opens the original)
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I had to get this out before my day got completely swamped.Last year, I had the honor of viewing the Met’s extraordinary exhibition, SUPERFINE: Tailoring Black Style, curated by Dr. Monica Miller. It was breathtaking— not simply as an exhibition of fashion, but as a profound meditation on identity, history, identity, power, and the ways in which Black style has influenced and shaped the landscape of culture and history.I woke up this morning to the news that The Metropolitan Museum of Art has ca
Stamped by Silence: The Federal Mail and the Commerce of American Terror (opens the original)
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Historical note: This essay does not argue that the United States Postal Service created, endorsed, or promoted lynching. The argument is more precise: that the federal mail system, as one of America’s most powerful communication networks, became a pathway through which lynching imagery was reproduced, commercialized, and circulated. The exact number of lynching postcards produced and mailed cannot be determined because no national record was maintained; however, historians have documented their
Not Light, But Fire (opens the original)
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Every July, Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? returns like clockwork—quoted in op-eds, excerpted in classrooms, resurfacing across social media as moral punctuation for the holiday. It is usually presented as a condemnation of slavery, or as evidence that America has always failed to live up to its ideals.Both are true. Neither is sufficient.To read the speech that way is to miss its central action: Douglass is not simply describing hypocrisy. He is dismantling the co
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