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Author: Ashleigh Shackelford

  • Echoing Ida

All Victims Don’t Survive.

“I am not a survivor. And I don’t know if I’ll ever be.”

  • Echoing Ida

When People Who Harm Don’t Consent to Transformative Justice

“Transformative justice is not a cage for us to die in.”

  • Echoing Ida

You Could Never Misgender Me

When you use the wrong pronoun, you’ve crossed my boundary but you could never misgender me.

  • Echoing Ida

Nice Guys Kill to Stay Nice: On the Weaponizing of Kindness and Why ‘Perfect Abusers’ Don’t Exist

“I don’t want to be like the other guys you met,” he said.

  • Echoing Ida

Trauma is Not Our Name: On the Epitaphs and Eulogies of Black Life

This is only slightly a review of Queen & Slim, and more-so a take on the politics of visibility and how many of us will die to be seen not knowing that being seen is, too, death.

  • Echoing Ida

Fat Is Not a Bad Word

“For me, fat is a way of saying f*ck you.”

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