The Importance of Not Knowing
As writers, what happens when the dominant spaces leave very little room for nuance?
Yesterday, a friend told me, half-reproachingly, half-resignedly: “I hate to say this, but you’re always late. So I don’t really expect you to come until later.”* This was said in a safe space, among women friends who have become close confidants. And so I received this with the care and love that I know my friend had meant, even as she was calling me o…
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