Sincerely, Charnell
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I will skip the earthquakes and record temperatures. We begin with the coffee shop AU.
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how to fall light like / how to lay like a shadow / how to make a universe / of the cobwebbed corner / how to stay
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Whiteness affords children the precondition of goodness, which necessitates that children of color are dichotomously constructed as bad. 
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CRT is a specific theory with a specific history. In this post, I describe the theory and rank some of its introductory texts.
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Emo, alternative, and pop punk songs gave me words to dream about fighting in ways I did not dare imagine myself. 
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Poems are about moving toward doubt, always pushing to the next line where you, at the break, are faced with your own humanness.
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“Serenity” sets the stage for exploring how power is a communal resource on this ship throughout the duration of the series.
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Though the songs reveal anger, grief, frustration, and, at times hopelessness, they never linger too long on the heaviest parts.
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To be Black and from Southern Indiana is to take up space within a place. It is to discern the edges of what is held in. It is to be the edge.
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It’s all small. It’s all holy. And grief visits me daily when I think about losing these small things and the potential for losing much bigger ones.
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My mom likes to tell me that I’m the writer in the family, but I disagree. We are all writers. 
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