Like most other Gen Z nerds, I went through middle school with my nose buried in The Hunger Games and its sequels, reading and rereading until I’d deemed every important detail sufficiently memorized. Then I went to high school and hit the “gifted kid burnout” portion of my life and reading for pleasure no longerContinue reading “The Ballad of Songbirds and SNCC”
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Bodily Autonomy, The White Man and You
When I was in high school (circa 2015), my mother told me one of the few stories that truly haunts me. Not many things make my stomach turn, but the true story of Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman’s life, death and afterlife made me truly ill as I deep dove into it in my early adolescent nerdiness.Continue reading “Bodily Autonomy, The White Man and You”
Intro to Bullet Points
Welcome to my first bullet point post! These are shorter posts of varying lengths that go up between the larger ones with smaller bits of info that I want to get to y’all–announcements, guides to navigating the blog, etc. and they’ll all be easily accessible and chronologically organized with my full length posts, which youContinue reading “Intro to Bullet Points”
Syllabus Week
Welcome class! We’re gonna start easy; this first post is just an introduction to the project and a little bit of info about the “man behind the curtain”. What’s Been Withheld is intended to be a sort of crash course in black life and the topics that a lot of us haven’t been taught aboutContinue reading “Syllabus Week”
What's Been Withheld 