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by Rivers Solomon

And I think that’s because, well, when we speak of a house that is haunted, all we are speaking of is a house that is violent, and many houses are violent. Mold-besmirched. Leaded water. Holes in the floor. Windows that let in cold. Heating that doesn’t work. Shitty cladding. In its end, Grenfell Tower was a haunted house. Every house in Flint, in so many cities, is a haunted house.

We have a tendency at times to exonerate fathers, seemingly blameless because of their absence or their ambivalence.