The Southern Truth About Communism
On April 17—notably, the anniversary of the failed, anti-communist fueled Bay of Pigs Invasion—Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill requiring K-12 public schools to teach students about "the evils and dangers" of communism. According to DeSantis, an anti-communist education is necessary for grade school children and will serve as a deterrent against radicalization later…
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Southern politics
Boiling on the Inside
This essay mentions suicide. "Don't call it air-conditioning; It's a cooling system!" A guard yells to my escorts, referring to the month-old, temporary, external tubular system that seldom works. And on the rare occasions it does, it only maintains an in-cell temperature of 85°F. Daily, the heat index has been north of 110°, and it…
Arts & Soul
Rest is Not Resistance, and That is OK
the night my Gramma died. I received a call around 11 p.m. the night my Gramma died. I immediately knew what the buzzing on my nightstand meant for my world from then on. That knowing prevented me from answering the phone. One, I wanted to hold onto my grandmother for one more night. Two, getting…
Race & Place
Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World
Content Note: This essay describes parental abuse against children and animal abuse. "Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people." Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The…
Long reads
"Pull up your pants or go to jail!"
Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens
How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL
Essays & Letters
Why journalists must speak out about Gaza
On grief and sweet potato pie: A holiday meditation
What living through COVID in jail taught me about abolition
On the execution of my friend, Kelly Gissendaner
In paintings: Life, Death, Carcerality, and the Pursuit of Abolition
Mausoleums: The Art of Necromancy
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