writing by max

some of my words online

“How to Grow Your Own Digital Best Friend”
“Lorde Voices a Generation”
“Say It With Me: Ugliness is Power”
“If You Like It, Consider Not Putting a Ring On It”
“Seven Ways to Express the Highest Gratitude Towards the World and its Inhabitants This Thanksgiving”
“The Best Albums of the 2010s” — #98, #11, #4
“First Semester”
“Twenty Haikus”
“Widowspeak — Plum Album Review”
“Sylvan Esso — Free Love”

Black Lives Matter

articles / things to read

i’ve shared a few articles centered on Black experiences and anti-Black systemic injustice. they’re all collected here for your reading.

“What Life is Like Under Crimmigration’s Web”
Wendi C. Thomas’ ProPublica piece on Police Surveillance on Black Journalists
Clint Smith’s “Becoming A Parent in the Age Of Black Lives Matter”
Porsha Olayiwola’s poem “The Electric Slide is Not A Dance, Man!”
Asset devaluation in Black neighborhoods
Imani Perry’s Atlantic piece “Racism is Terrible. Blackness is Not.”
CAHOOTS alternative to policing
Meredith Clark on Capital B Black and why you should always use it
Mother Jones — Slavery in Illinois
Leina Hsu’s “When Chinatown Marched Against Police Brutality”
Georgetown students on BLM
Georgetown Voice editorial on Black Lives Matter
“How to See Race”
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