A Spotify playlist shuffles through several favorite songs. The Keurig is finishing off a cup of coffee in my new mug I received as a Christmas present. I sit at my kitchen table, looking out the window at the various passer-bys that are on their way to various New Years…

In his review of Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play (1994), New York Times theatre critic David Richards (a white, cisgender male) called Ms. Parks’ play a “surrealistic sideshow, troubled dream [and a] poetic riff on Black identity […] [It] defies easy categorization”. The reviewer is quick to acknowledge Parks’ Blackness…