Tag: social commentary

  • Midnight Meanderings on ‘Strength’

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    I can’t sleep. Every time I close my eyes and try, my mind meanders back to the latest story that wants to be told: my strained relationship with the expectation, pressure, and exploitation that comes with ‘strength’. These conflicting thoughts and feelings are, of course, inevitably shaped by my experiences navigating the world as a…

  • Khaliifa’s Last Words: A Testament to Injustice and Resistance

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    On September 24th, 2024 Khaliifa Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri. DNA cleared him. The prosecutor cleared him. The family of the harmed cleared him. Yet, still—his life was taken. Lynched in a modern ritual dressed up as justice, witnessed by the gathering crowd as though we haven’t seen this story before. But we have.…