Christina Sharpe Read Bio Collapse
Christina Sharpe is Professor at York University, Toronto in the Department of Humanities and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University. She is the author of two books, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010), both published by Duke University Press. She is currently working on a monograph: Black. Still. Life.
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I learned to see in my mother’s house. I learned how not to see in my mother’s house. How to limit my sight to the things that could be controlled. I learned to see in discrete angles, planes, plots. If the ceiling was falling down and you couldn’t do anything about it, what you could do was grow and arrange peonies and tulips and zinnias; cut forsythia and mock orange to bring inside.
Nastia Volynova