"Watchmen spins the popular notion of black-white accepted realities around. It puts the fear — of being victimized, of witnessing violent death — that’s a daily part of black reality on a white character who feels powerless against it." buff.ly/2RtgdQv
"I am the kind of woman who will never have an Alexa, because I will never let another woman’s name be said more than my own, in my home." buff.ly/2LyvxYC
For the very last essay in our Pleasure issue, we have our own @rgay on the subject of her nemeses, and why she chooses to engage with trolls on Twitter.
"Sometimes when he walks, I swear I can hear it, the depression. It’s a liquid sound. I can hear the cortisol sloshing around in his veins." @aubreyhirschbuff.ly/32IPvGj
"Grown women talk about how walking past these kinds of stores makes their allergies act up. It’s a rite of passage to complain about the headaches these stores give because they have too many strong scents happening at once, but I still love it."
To those familiar with the controversy around American Dirt, this is familiar. A white woman has written a book that fictionalizes a story many people have survived and is receiving tremendous backing and promotion. This time, though, it's My Dark Vanessa. buff.ly/2GzCxBr
