“She couldn’t show that pain to anyone else until she’d perfected the way she wanted to tell it, until she had complete control over the narrative. Until she’d polished it into a version and argument that she was comfortable with. But those notebooks are her original thoughts, raw and unfiltered. And I just can’t help but . . . I don’t know, I feel like donating them to an archive would be a violation. Like putting her corpse on display.”
And that makes how Juniper stole her story and absolutely butchered it and stole control over her narrative thay much more sinister. it’s how white people have stolen the narratives of poc forever. how they decide how our stories should go. even if our stories aren’t perfect, they’re ours
