🪙 On CONGRESS, 1: a special ask

or, Things from Your Life

An excerpt of text from CONGRESS, accompanied by commentary from The Annotated African-American Folktales, ed. Henry Louis Gates and Sarah Tatar

If you follow my work, you likely know my stomach's always talking – especially when it's empty.

Half a day had passed when it happened. I’d been so caught up in momentum: morning qigong and a card pull carried m…