The cultural obsession with AI art is what Snapchat filters felt like in 2013… there are years of my life chronicled with cartoon dog filters I can’t ever get back…

This happened last semester and I’m still laughing

thinking about how our culture’s obsession with moral perfection is linked to the prison industrial complex… we say its okay to enslave “bad people” and freak when we inevitably do a “bad” thing because we must contend with the fact that doing something wrong does not mean we are less than

A short story is an acquaintance. A novel is a friend.

#MahmoudKhalil “To my Newborn Son” will be our times “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by MLK and “Letter to my Nephew” by James Baldwin
#freepalestine

America’s president is the antichrist and the pope is American… we really are the insufferable main character

great episode of Code Switch… there was a moment where the interviewee mentions that America deals with their sins by burying them… couldn’t be more true

“The open secret of AMERICA is that we do not call colonization by its name. Instead, we give colonization another, more acceptable name: the AMERICAN DREAM.” - Viet Thanh Nguyen

I love America more than any other country in the world and exactly, for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
– James Baldwin

a quote I’ve been thinking about for the last 100 days

We are living in an abusive environment and the consequences trickle down to our families and ourselves. All of us, dare I say it, even our oligarchs, are living in survival mode. To “lose” the American Dream, one loses their life, but to “win” the American Dream, one surrenders their soul.

I knew I would be a writer in the same way some girls know they will be mothers. It wasn’t so much a calling as it was an instinct.

^The first sentence of my MFA thesis… stay dramatic girlies