"'Show? To who? Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.' 'Lonely, ain’t it?' Nel’s question sticks out in my mind like the point of an index finger toward a shameful secret unfurled before a judgmental public. Lonely, ain’t it. 'Yes. But my lonely is … Continue reading Secondhand Lonely
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The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
"To think of The Ghosted is to think of injustice, a cataloging of fist-fights, tuberculosis, detention centers, scabies, crabs, lice, roaches, hot plates, Section 8 housing, laborers hiding under blankets in the backs of trucks, children lying stiff against the tops of trains, assembly lines in windowless heat-filled rooms — a type of economic violence … Continue reading The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
