From the Ashes

Jesse's writing is magnetic and his story's intense. Facing racism and bullying and dropping out of school in grief is the faint overlap I've lived. I thought about when a friend from Turkey told me that he was never bullied growing up—because the school system was so oppressive it was always students against teachers. Whether those in power are nakedly so or cloaked in misdirection, and while humans new and old haven't stopped scrabbling to be at the top of corrupt hills, there is healing power in sharing stories of rising up and breaking free of narratives of dominance. I am especially hopeful about new models of masculinity.

Incidentally I wasn't expecting a chilling link to Jagmeet Singh's family story.