And sweat is sometimes political. Say, if it comes off the back of someone who is working in a field that is not their own field in a country that wasn’t always their country. Sweat is sometimes political when it falls from the shoulders of an athlete who is playing for a college in a place where they might be one of few black people on campus. But sweat isn’t always political—not when it’s the small river being formed between two warm bodies in the midst of some block party or basement or anywhere music is coming from hands touched to records.
