Legacy Russell

Shockingly unoriginal, most of this book is quotes from other works flimsy strung along. I'm not quite sure what the current obsession with saying YES is, but this is something really terrible I've noticed in a lot of Black femme thought recently. It puts the affirmation of my humanity on my shoulders -- that if I was just a little better, or a little different, then perhaps white people wouldn't exterminate me. If I glitch out, then maybe I can escape this world that wants to exterminate me. A really unpleasant affair, and really quite depressing, and not in the good way.… (mehr)