You Who Forsake the Lord
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William T. Vollmann charts the rise, ruin, and refashioning of America.
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We must sweep leftovers of any kind off the bargaining table.
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It’s a losing game to be understood by cis people.
the thing between the wall and my body
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Tracing the physics of incarceration.