Steve Wright, Stephen Wright and Stevie Wright
University Department of Academia, Freedom Road
May 15, 2021

Abstract:
In this paper my co-authors and I are attempting to make sense of a world where entropy seems to have the upper hand. Empirically speaking, things fall apart. We begin with the logical discontinuity…

Originally published at Politically Speaking

In her illuminating piece “The Lie”, Lisa Sharon Harper describes how, since biblical times, The Lie was calculated to codify Black lives as not just Other but as less; less than whole; less than human; animal. …

The “Great” Experiment is an attempt to prove the hypothesis that a ruling class can titrate freedoms to their subjects to create our calculated but tenuous comfort so that fear of losing what we are granted motivates us to sustain the engine that supports their power and wealth.

The origin of the “Great” Experiment

The phrase…

Back to School in a Pandemic

There is a list
A list of things that are happening outside
Our classroom
A space that is
Aware of the list
But separate
A space to experiment with
Boundaries, with
Intention, with
Failure and success
Failure after success
Iterations ransacking an unknown but actual future…

I think I’m awkward but I don’t know how to tell
Pushing into places I might belong
Wearing whiteness camouflage
I am not an imposterI’m told to want a stage
   To separate myself
   To elevate myself
I hear voices
   Recursions…

Marquise can hold space. You know when Marquise is in the classroom. Not because he is fidgeting or cracking jokes or doing any of the fireworks that 15 yr old male students do. Marquise can hold space. Every time I think about my classroom, I think about Marquise. He is…

a refutation of whiteness

What if this was the breaking point of our elastic reality.
What if difference won,
   chests pressed, stretching?Whiteness,
   the denier, the segregator,
   the eraser, the assimilator.
Whiteness won’t resign,
   into the riff raff,
   into the rabble.
Whiteness hypes…

The building was a School. The stage is empty. The wooden stage is scuffed, sanded down by feet reluctant, feet forward, feet resolute, feet shuffling. The curtain raises. There is no curtain. The stage is aspirational. It wants to be a stage and aspirational actors want to be too.

There…