“You’re well-meaning and you truly want to understand…
And yet, despite your well-meaningness, your responses…
“ Since high school, I’d known people, some of them intimate friends, who wanted to desperately escape their own whiteness. I felt that the longing to escape our own racial bodies was everywhere, from silly acts of what Shriver calls “trying on other people’s hats,” to…
“ It is a cultural moment that has made white writers look in the mirror and wonder if we have been confusing it with a window. White writers are not used to being objectified in this way. One of our conceits has been to imagine ourselves as neutral, objective, and value-free. Yet this sense of…
“Could you do your job for free?
Yeah, neither can we.
Of course we’re passionate, and we care, but a day of small favours is another day we don’t get paid for…