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How Can I Be Myself When Strangers Are Watching? Performing Blackness and Black Joy

During a conversation with a friend, who is also an artist and a photographer, he said, “What is it with you writers, why are you always writing sad stuff?” The most honest answer would be I haven’t experienced enough joy to write about it at any length, but I can’t speak for anyone else. Secondly, when the joyful moments seem so few and far between, I want to enjoy them; I cannot be bothered to intellectualize them.