Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America McLarin Kim
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America McLarin Kim "...come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed." --from…
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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America McLarin Kim
"...come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed." --from Lucille Clifton, "won't you celebrate with me." "What does periracial mean? A way to label life under that particular tooth in the zipper of interlocking systems of oppression bell hooks called "imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy." (What a lot to resist. It's a word I made up while casting about for a way to capture both the chronic nature of structural injustice and inequity of America and my own weariness.
To counter the idea--now largely abandoned but innocently believed for most of my adult life by white Americans on both ends of the political No wonder we're so tired!) To capture the endless cycle of progress and backlash which has shaped my one small life here in America during the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.