notchainedtotrauma: “Responses and alternatives to injury are awful and difficult and forever; they...

notchainedtotrauma:

“Responses and alternatives to injury are awful and difficult and forever; they emerge as song, story, grooving, crying, fight, jumping, quietness, laughing, poem. And more. Always more. This is living, necessarily living, and finding our way through earlier modes of heartbreaking damage that comprise the mattering of Black life, though not exclusively so. Where is the love?”

— from 808s&Heartbreak by Katherine McKittrick&Alexander G. Weheliye