"However unlikely it seems, Dr. Jefferson said, objects — puffer vests, picket fences, beagles, suburbia — have racial associations: 'It’s the same thing as a pumpkin spice latte.'" https://nyti.ms/3qKuyqq 

I find this fascinating because it's basically the white gaze in politics.

I spend a lot of time advocating for Black artists and artists of color to be able to reject the white gaze and just make the work they want to make.

But politics is not art. No one has to win at art.

If anything, hopefully the reversal of racial power dynamics within arenas like theater contributes to an environment in which white people don't come to expect that everything be focused on their wants, perceptions, and definitions of cultural literacy

It's a long road tho.

From Claudia Rankine's JUST US chapter "Ethical Loneliness," on her white friend refusing to own her whiteness at the end of FAIRVIEW

It really is an incredible book