Courtney Napier

Travelling while Black and Queer is particularly strange these days, especially in the rural parts of the country. My partner travels a lot for work, and this is the main way we see each other since they live on the West Coast. This time, we're in Charleston, West Virginia where they're training local educators with skills that support the mental health of their students and colleagues. Just a few months ago we were in Shelby, North Carolina for similar work. Shelby and Charleston are similar...

It wasn't until my body and bank account could no longer perform in our ableist, capitalist society that I understood the value of community

Resisting the cognitive dissonance regarding the global cost of our first world experience is a particular mental and emotional strain.