On Cuddling contemporary Arek's best friend and mage

Arek's best friend and mage

Mickey's carefully crafted life starts to fall apart

As an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City

Content Warnings: Bullying

" The Nerd Daily

On Cuddling contemporary Arek's best friend and mageLoved to Death in the Racial Embrace Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship's hold to the racist encoding of 'cuddly' toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics, Phanuel Antwi focuses his lens on the suffering of Black people at the hands of state violence and racial capitalism. As radical movements