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So yes, I am here to encourage you to read multiple things at the same time. Sometimes your brain just needs a breat from thinking or trying to understand Big Things ... and that happens when we read fiction too. Some of it is just devastating in its clarity. What Strange Paradise for example.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
So yes, I am here to encourage you to read multiple things at the same time. Sometimes your brain just needs a breat from thinking or trying to understand Big Things ... and that happens when we read fiction too. Some of it is just devastating in its clarity. What Strange Paradise for example.
of course you can.
But there is a danger in non-Black people taking Black theorists and just running with it. We miss things, we miss context. And then we misrepresent what is being said. All without meaning to, but intent =/= impact. Fiction (film, novels, etc) can help bridge those gaps.
But there is a danger in non-Black people taking Black theorists and just running with it. We miss things, we miss context. And then we misrepresent what is being said. All without meaning to, but intent =/= impact. Fiction (film, novels, etc) can help bridge those gaps.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
of course you can.
But there is a danger in non-Black people taking Black theorists and just running with it. We miss things, we miss context. And then we misrepresent what is being said. All without meaning to, but intent =/= impact. Fiction (film, novels, etc) can help bridge those gaps.
But there is a danger in non-Black people taking Black theorists and just running with it. We miss things, we miss context. And then we misrepresent what is being said. All without meaning to, but intent =/= impact. Fiction (film, novels, etc) can help bridge those gaps.
Mixing fiction and non fiction from these communities not only gives you a broader understanding, but it makes it about them and not about you. Fanon for example. If you understand him in the context of HIS world instead of your own, it hits differently. Which is not to say that you can't apply it.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Mixing fiction and non fiction from these communities not only gives you a broader understanding, but it makes it about them and not about you. Fanon for example. If you understand him in the context of HIS world instead of your own, it hits differently. Which is not to say that you can't apply it.
Reading fiction and non-fiction together in an intentional way can help us make sense of the theory or analysis. Fiction puts us into the headspace of the theorists, into their communities and daily lives. This is particularly important if you are reading the work of communities you are not part of.
January 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Reading fiction and non-fiction together in an intentional way can help us make sense of the theory or analysis. Fiction puts us into the headspace of the theorists, into their communities and daily lives. This is particularly important if you are reading the work of communities you are not part of.
love love love Wagamese. one of the conversations that Bad Indians Book Club is based on focused on him and his work so it figures in the chapter on fiction. We actually grew up in the same town, tho we didn't know each other.
January 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
love love love Wagamese. one of the conversations that Bad Indians Book Club is based on focused on him and his work so it figures in the chapter on fiction. We actually grew up in the same town, tho we didn't know each other.
Yes ma'am! both are my work. And I'll tell you, explaining how allotment worked was a challenge. "colonizer mf'ers" tho. Might be my favourite annotation yet that I've seen anybody post online.
January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Yes ma'am! both are my work. And I'll tell you, explaining how allotment worked was a challenge. "colonizer mf'ers" tho. Might be my favourite annotation yet that I've seen anybody post online.
So when people are able to find a way to make social justice good for the state, that's helpful in the short term but in the long term it doesn't really help because the state remains what it is.
January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
So when people are able to find a way to make social justice good for the state, that's helpful in the short term but in the long term it doesn't really help because the state remains what it is.
They do. It's just understood differently. Things that build the state are good. Things that attack the state are bad. Abolition was ultimately good, but not because owning people is inherently wrong. It was good because it opened up jobs for white people who couldn't compete in a slave economy
January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
They do. It's just understood differently. Things that build the state are good. Things that attack the state are bad. Abolition was ultimately good, but not because owning people is inherently wrong. It was good because it opened up jobs for white people who couldn't compete in a slave economy