grief & grits
notes on grief, love and community from the Black queer rural South
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Writing About My Emotions in English is Hard (opens the original)
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white people, y’all are cowards, and I think y’all’s writing fucking sucks because of it. (opens the original)
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I Can’t Stomach Another Theory (opens the original)
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we are all so deeply traumatized. but if we don’t learn how to be in better relationship with each other, the radical futures that we imagine are just gonna die on the vine.it is totally unfair to be tasked with learning how to move with the burdens that have been placed on our aching backs. that don’t absolve us of responsibility to ourselves and to another.we blur the line between where we end and others begin.we spill across it.we try to go trauma for trauma.and i just wanna tap on the glass
watching you sleep (opens the original)
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