![]() The world is always ready to write of us in the past tense. Most of us-especially people of color living in a white supremacist society and world-are constrained to the past, if we are even allowed a past. ![]() Most of us don’t have the luxury of believing ourselves entitled to the future. They pull a syringe from the briefcase, tap out the air, and say only: A vaccination against what’s to come. Future me has long auburn hair, a terrible dye job I won’t attempt until after college, in the bathroom sink of a ratty apartment. ![]() It’s been eighteen, maybe twenty years since this dream. My future self sets the briefcase on the lunch table and clicks it open, revealing two syringes of silver liquid. Inanna abandoned heaven and earth to descend to the underworld.” – Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth, translated by Wolkstein and Kramer “From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below.įrom the Great Above the goddess opened her ear to the Great Below.įrom the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below… ![]()
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