Those spaces to read are a privilege. - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.

am living in the most opportune time in black history in the United States and that means, still, that I will die younger, live poorer, risk more exposure to police violence, and be punished by social policy for being a black woman in ways that aren’t true for almost any other group in this nation. That is the best it has ever been to be black in America and it is still that statistically bad at the macro level.

In a modern society, who is allowed to speak with authority is a political act.