HeyJaredSh*t That Makes Me Blue
and other resonant feelings, and maybe what I do about them. Not a soapbox, but a porch stoop.
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home again (opens the original)
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I keep calling everything home. I keep trying to identify home in the shapes of everything around me. Every meal I make, every plant and decorative knickknack I acquire, every ounce of familiar I manage to source for our abode—I call them home so that I can soothe myself into believing I can make a home anywhere. I want to believe that home comes with me, that home grows with me, its floorboards stretch, its walls creak and groan, the stairs follow me down the road beyond what even I can see, th
Black. Spirit. Fiction. Generative Writing Workshop - August 22, 2026 (opens the original)
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When I think about what literary lineage(s) I’d like to inhabit, I think first of those whose writing centers the spirit in its narrative of Black life. We are all world builders (word to ) contributing to our collective imaginary of what’s possible for Black life, present and future. My favorite world builders in literature are those who write Black worlds akin to my own: where ancestors, the past, present, and future are all solid forces that create as much motion for the story as any other ch
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