"you asked." 🍒 "no, i didn't."

A universe grows on my body, where your hand touches me Suddenly the world returns, all that it has taken away

• the back of cards

Like we joke that Shane walks Ilya like a dog but I think the perception of that by other people would actually be informed by just…relatively mundane conversations. They’re just chatting about what to have for dinner but because of Shane’s Tone, rookies on the Cens and old friends from Boston and random women at the grocery store are like, “Wow. Hollander is so rude and poor Rozanov is whipped.”

And maybe they even work up the nerve to say something. Maybe they tell Shane to be kinder or Ilya that he doesn’t have to put up with that. Ilya’s confused every time because Shane’s not even angry? He KNOWS what Shane looks like angry. Right now he’s just…being himself. He’s not slipping on his media smile and carefully considering every word. He’s not shrinking himself, contorting to fit the expectations of a world that craves whiteness, straightness, politeness

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing