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    1. Finished @colsonwhitehead's UGRR. A novel about fugitivity. Made me think of @neildsroberts, drawing on Angela Davis: "freedom as marronage"
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    Made me think of @tanehisicoates: "how do I live free in this black body," the "how" also a question of "where" @colsonwhitehead
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      Made me think of what Luther Adams said at a conference last year: "Movement toward freedom is an ever ongoing movement." @colsonwhitehead
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        And again, of @neildsroberts: freedom found in the "liminal spaces," not in "fixed, determinate endings." @colsonwhitehead
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          I hope none of that is a spoiler alert. Read "The Underground Railroad"! @colsonwhitehead