I have a vivid memory of being about 14 and seeing a hardcore punk walking down the street in a busy shopping district with a tiny white kitten tucked in his leather jacket. That’s goals.
the mythology of fringe white supremacy in the united states in the last several decades; Afropessimist and fellow-traveler’s perspectives of survival under white supremacy; necropolitics, Marx, and the foundation of fascism in the colonization of Africa; oppositional mythology, possibilities for struggle and solidarity.
“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What’s closer to nature’s heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can’t you see? It’s just the same with you — and just as vital to nature.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.18)
