6/7/2020

When I was a kid, the mall parking lot was a ski run.

After a deep snow, plows cleared the way for shoppers, and a large hill was constructed. More snow came and the piles grew. More mountains surrounded it, some larger, carrying the pressure of weeks of 40 degree baking and 25 degree freezing.

From the backseat of my parents’ car, I imagined barrel-rolling in Thinsulate boots, tackling the terrain.

As an adult, I realized this ski run was a double black diamond.

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This is the first page of a zine I created called “debts” about taking back what’s owed. You can download it here.

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~inputs that informed this zine~

• “Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful”, an episode from The Ezra Klein show 

• 1619, a documentary

• Who Killed Malcolm X, a documentary

• “The Uprising”, an episode from Reveal

• James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni, a conversation

• Now, an album by Kim Jung Mi

• COINTELPRO RELOADED, a music playlist by myself [Apple Music / Spotify]

• “Lowkey Happy”, an episode from Insecure

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Hope you’re staying safe,

-J