Tag: health care systems

At a Sistah SciFi conversation in San Francisco, Black horror writers Tamika Thompson and Justin C. Key examine public housing, medicine and gun violence as systems of fear. Their discussion considers how horror can make institutional harm visible while preserving Black joy, humanity and authorship.

I write to you as your Black daughter, one who is three generations rooted in this city, and one who had all but given up on you. Today, however, in the spirit of Juneteenth, I am thinking I can feel the fresh breath of something new in the air. Is it hope? Should I trust it? I want to.

The solution must exist within our form of struggle. The resistance currently resonating across Latin America is not just saying “No” to what they do not want, but at the same time constructing what it is they want to see. They say it is no longer enough to be against a system of exploitation and domination, because we have the power to create the alternative.