Your final line packs a punch or left hook to the heart. Thank you for the marvelous piece. As Jonathan Safran Foer wrote and it’s one of my favorite quotes about humanity in the digital tech age: “I worry that the closer the world get to our fingertips , the farther it gets from our hearts.” This is a piece of journalistic h(art) work!! Just wished you’d share more women in that list of people killed by the po-po. #saytheirnames We must stop replicating the notion that women being killed is an exception or that the attacks on black humanity are only towards men and boys. #AishaStanleyJones #SandraBland #EleanorBumpers #RekiaBoyd

With that said, I bring you good tidings of joy from the warmth of your piece and the compassion it inspires to lift ourselves up from the worst life keeps throwing our way as people whose skin color was not a choice and whose humanity is not either. This is a great piece for interrupting #whitesuperioritysocialization. Let’s do the intersectional work of #bitch and #slut and of #illegal through art, play, and beauty as well as stories of loss, injustice, and anger.