How long can anger be sustained? It’s a low grade persistent throbbing behind your eyes. Does it can it will it stay inside forever? Bottled up? Or does it overflow inevitably? A fiery wrath let loose upon those unsuspecting who deserve it? Those bystanders who let it...
In September, I finished NPR’s Greatest 150 Albums by Women. A project that took me two months to finish. I heard Ann Powers discussing the project with Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition on the drive into work in late July. I’ve never been so excited to open Spotify...
I remember reading in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in my feminist texts course during my first year of college. “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.” Nearly everyone around me had already read the book,...
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be white and Jewish. After Charlottesville & 45’s statements, I read posts & tweets from writers and friends I respect and admire admonishing “white women” and “white people” I...
There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to...
