Making blanket statements that “anyone can recover” whitewashes and overlooks the gross inequities that people of color and marginalized communities face.
Tag: oppression
"Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool" Connects Jim Crow Oppression to Davis' Heroin Addiction
Miles Davis’ heroin addiction and alcoholism are all well known and well documented. However, Nelson frames this period as resulting from Davis’ return to a reality in which he was not wanted but his music was.
Post-Kavanaugh, Women’s Self-Care Needs to Lose the Alcohol
Alcohol, when construed as the first or best line of self-care, actually renders us less effective in resisting an exploitive system that makes legal space for our bodies to be legislated, controlled, and raped. “Should we get some wine?” I asked him, pushing a bit of sweet potato around on my plate. I felt my… Continue reading Post-Kavanaugh, Women’s Self-Care Needs to Lose the Alcohol