Ricardo thanked Claudia for sharing. I took mental notes. I’d never before seen someone make something so seemingly small so dramatic. The artfulness impressed me. A few more people shared, recounting similarly benign injustices with riveting “narrative arcs,” as Mr. Martin would say: anger at having to check the “Hispanic” box on university forms, which didn’t seem like the kind of thing that merited applause for “getting through” the “triggering” experience; disgust and “severe mental fatigue” from a Colombian girl who said she was constantly asked about Pablo Escobar by everyone. (I held in
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