Lately I’ve heard this word in my head as a thing of terror fearsome & loathsome a single word that threatens to disarm and dismantle me & whole communities
the one word that breaks so unspeakable and yet always in our consciousness
how it’s especially in our music proudly reclaimed by those who have been disempowered by it — now they sing it speak it, like the casual word it is.
still, it’s a word that is anchored to hatred and degradation to violence and suppression humanity’s shadows on display.
so who are we today? we are hyperaware of it ears constantly alert for it
for if the wrong person says it, hell breaks loose —
