This is what myths do: they tell us how things came to be. And all too often the myth-making process is the only way people on the margins can “speak themselves” into existence.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah at Los Angles Review of Books. De origine actibusque aequationis
Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, Basquiat, and the Art of Being an Equation
Via Kitabet at Sunday Reading.
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