years ago, i would keep up with the seemingly never ending string of murders in the U.S. and beyond of Black people. all Black people. cis, trans, queer, straight, disabled, non-disabled, etc.
I first read your post 8 days ago. Since then I have been haunted by your post.
There is a phrase you used, and too a word, that I have been thinking of, over and over.
The phrase “the banality of evil” haunts me, I think, because it makes me think of my complicity. Because even if I am not complicit in creating evil, for evil to become banal it requires an audience. I am part of the audience.
The word you used in your post that also still haunts me is “heteronormative”. I had not known the word, and my very lack of not knowing it bothers me: my ignorance of the word “heteronormative”, I believe perpetuates the need for the word to exist.
Thank you for your writing. It is so much more than “just writing”.
I first read your post 8 days ago. Since then I have been haunted by your post.
There is a phrase you used, and too a word, that I have been thinking of, over and over.
The phrase “the banality of evil” haunts me, I think, because it makes me think of my complicity. Because even if I am not complicit in creating evil, for evil to become banal it requires an audience. I am part of the audience.
The word you used in your post that also still haunts me is “heteronormative”. I had not known the word, and my very lack of not knowing it bothers me: my ignorance of the word “heteronormative”, I believe perpetuates the need for the word to exist.
Thank you for your writing. It is so much more than “just writing”.
i've thought about your comment a lot over the last month. thank you, Silia.