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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
Charnell Peters
May 30CommentShare
Whiteness affords children the precondition of goodness, which necessitates that children of color are dichotomously constructed as bad. 
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Mar 6CommentShare
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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Dec 2, 2020CommentShare
Emo, alternative, and pop punk songs gave me words to dream about fighting in ways I did not dare imagine myself. 
Charnell Peters
Oct 28, 2020CommentShare
Poems are about moving toward doubt, always pushing to the next line where you, at the break, are faced with your own humanness.
Charnell Peters
Oct 7, 2020CommentShare
“Serenity” sets the stage for exploring how power is a communal resource on this ship throughout the duration of the series.
Charnell Peters
Sep 17, 2020CommentShare
Though the songs reveal anger, grief, frustration, and, at times hopelessness, they never linger too long on the heaviest parts.
Charnell Peters
Sep 11, 2020CommentShare
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.
Charnell Peters
Sep 9, 2020CommentShare
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.
Charnell Peters
Sep 9, 2020CommentShare
My mom likes to tell me that I’m the writer in the family, but I disagree. We are all writers. 
Charnell Peters
Sep 9, 2020CommentShare
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