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Can we talk about Maria’s quiet boyfriend:
When Maria learns she’s being transferred to Virginia she pleads to him:
Yadriel has already made the effort to start talking more to his daughter…my heart.
It’s interesting how we’re sort of led to think that he’s kind of an asshole because he always sits there silently being kind of expressionless. And yet, that little girl is always happy and impeccably dressed - and turns out he’s just a quiet dude after all. I loved this little storyline.
yes i adored this relationship too!
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As you navigate the world today move from a space of knowing. Know that you matter. Know that you are enough. Know that you belong in this world.
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"One wonders to what degree any newfound alarmism about the vulnerability of black children to environmental lead can succeed, given the abiding construction of affinities between racist constructions of blackness and those of lead, long integral to the American racial and gendered corporeal imaginary. A racial construction of blacks as already unruly, violent, contaminated, and mentally deficient lies inherent in the current neoliberal economy, which not only positions people of color in a labor hierarchy that matches them with literally disabling forms of manual labor, but is also conditioned and supported by a growing and incredibly powerful prison industrial complex structured according to race, class, and gender. If lead exposure itself is associated with cognitive delay, enhanced aggressivity, impulsivity, convulsions, and mental lethargy, then we might read such characterizations of blackness as attributions, or intimations, of disability, as much as we already understand them as damaging racial profiles."
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Mel Chen, “Lead’s Racial Matters,“ Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. pp.183-184.
Stunning chapter on how words and inanimate objects gain meaning (or animacy) and how such meanings are imbued with racial, sexual, and (dis)ability meanings and inequalities. Chen beautifully puts into words what we already know about race, health, and toxicity but Chen reemphasizes the tangible violence and destruction words and animated objects (for neoliberal use) cause to ‘harmful, toxic, unwanted’ bodies.
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