An appreciation to black women
I have been trying to write this for a long time. Not because I do not know what to say. Because I do not know how to say it without it sounding small. And she deserves more than small.
Continue readingReflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
Thinkers You Should Know: Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun was a 14th century Tunisian historian who straight up invented sociology in the 1300s, four hundred years before Auguste Comte got himself a Wikipedia page for it. The guy wrote The Muqaddimah (that’s “Int...
Continue readingthe dying body, the undying brain
The heart stops and the body does not know it yet. There is a lag. A delay between the moment of death and the moment every cell understands.
Continue readingPersonal Finance for the Third World: When to Leave
This is the most uncomfortable post in this series. But it needs to be said (and you need to hear it): if you live in a country with chronic instability, you need an exit strategy.An exit strategy does not mean you ar...
Continue readingThinkers You Should Know: Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a Black lesbian feminist poet who said the things nobody had the guts to say. She called herself “a Black feminist lesbian mother poet” and refused to let anyone separate those words. They all mattered...
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