What joy to read you reading LUCY alongside WAYWARD LIVES. When I think about Lucy, which I do at least weekly, as though she were a very real person I had very really met, I think about the way she (among so many things) makes the invisible refusals of white imperialism visible. I see so clearly, reading LUCY, how many things a white imperialist history refused her, refused her mother, before either were even born, how many things Mariah and Mariah’s milieu refuse Lucy in particular. Lucy’s refusals are only so glaring because they are not permissible… which I guess is why those podcasters see her as selfish, yes? She refuses to only be refused without refusing in turn?
I can’t wait for the Zoom conversation. Thank you for all this good work.
I just finished Lucy (late as always) and immediately came to read your newsletter. Thank you for all of this. There is an endlessness I felt while reading this book—whole histories and lives and echoes and futures packed into every sentence. The expansiveness of your thinking and everything you speak of and reference here is proof of that, and invitation. I have just barley begun to think about it all.
What joy to read you reading LUCY alongside WAYWARD LIVES. When I think about Lucy, which I do at least weekly, as though she were a very real person I had very really met, I think about the way she (among so many things) makes the invisible refusals of white imperialism visible. I see so clearly, reading LUCY, how many things a white imperialist history refused her, refused her mother, before either were even born, how many things Mariah and Mariah’s milieu refuse Lucy in particular. Lucy’s refusals are only so glaring because they are not permissible… which I guess is why those podcasters see her as selfish, yes? She refuses to only be refused without refusing in turn?
I can’t wait for the Zoom conversation. Thank you for all this good work.
I just finished Lucy (late as always) and immediately came to read your newsletter. Thank you for all of this. There is an endlessness I felt while reading this book—whole histories and lives and echoes and futures packed into every sentence. The expansiveness of your thinking and everything you speak of and reference here is proof of that, and invitation. I have just barley begun to think about it all.