We must become Impressionists rejected from the Salon again, painters shut out of the sanctioned rooms because they insisted sunlight looked different on actual skin than it did in academic fantasies.

Leftism does not exist to validate every personal desire or identity performance. It exists to transform structures of oppression and build collective liberation.

Only one way to get rid of the curse: kiss the tombstone and apologize. Speak the name of the dead.

[Rather] than leaving these spaces feeling that the traumatic event has been adequately addressed, [a trauma metaphysic remains].