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FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR

From Brandon Taylor’s essay the tiny white people in our heads: When I tell friends about my life, even stories that are funny to me, I always try to preface it by saying that I grew up in a Southern Gothic novel. I think most of us who grew up with trauma or working classContinue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR”

THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX

From Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Some time ago, I taught a property class in which we studied the old case of Pierson v. Post: Post, being in possession of certain dogs and hounds under his command, did, “upon a certain wild and uninhabited, unpossessed and waste land, called the beach, findContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX”