Getting Myself Into Formation:
8 min readNov 14, 2021
An African Immigrant Inhabiting American Blackness
Holy shit, I spoke aloud to no one in particular in my coworker’s living room that evening, slowly leaning forward toward the TV screen as everyone else at the party around me continued to half-watch, half-chatter through the beginning of Beyoncé’s set. Incredulity at what was unfolding on the screen in front of us left my mouth hanging partly open, followed…
