Saeed Jones
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK.
Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
saeedjones.substack.com
- Wait, that’s… that’s kind of hilarious. Am I allowed to laugh? What’s the protocol here??
- “In just 11 months since Elon Musk’s company arrived in Memphis, xAI has become one of Shelby County’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides.”
- Hi, I think you should read THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson.
- If this weekend is hard for you, I just want to say many of us understand, you have siblings in grief near and far.
- I sincerely pray that the weight of your mediocrity and cowardice weighs on your ballsack every night heavier than lead.
- I’ve been thinking about this a lot. For example, studying the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is really helpful (and vital) toward understanding how ICE is operating now.
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- I bet that white lady wishes she was woke now.
- “Too many white people would rather let bullies wreck the Republic than have democracy work if that would mean the system also working for people they prefer not thinking about. Plenty of nonwhites want to be white.” — Darryl Pinckney, November 5, 2020
- If you haven’t already pre-ordered your copy of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, we’re working on copy edits and the table of contents ALONE will have you shooketh. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
