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Kumbaya, Motherfucker

Kumbaya, Motherfucker is a series of social media posts written from January to May of 2017. During this time, I was walking around New York City with the sign pictured above, aggressively singing “Kumbaya” at people who disagreed.

Here are the posts in chronological order:

Kumbaya, Motherfucker

Kumbaya, Class Consciousness

Kumbaya, Briefly

Kumbaya, Bitches

Kumbaya, Concerned Friends

Kumbaya, Springtime

Kumbaya, Stoners

Kumbaya, Rational People

Kumbaya, Brooklyn

Kumbaya, George

Kumbaya, Kind of a Monotonous Song After a While

Kumbaya, Comerades

Kumbaya, Dude. Whatever.

Kumbaya, For Fuck’s Sake

Kumbayeah, Maybe It’s Time to Stop

Kumbaya, I’m Still Singing

Oh, Lord. Kumbaya.

15. “My mother is dead, again.”

I gave up on writing about my mother after MY MOTHER IS CRAZY was rejected in 2010. I wrote two other books instead — a novel for adults, and a novel for tweens.

14b. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part Two

For the seventeen years I worked with Judith, I thought therapy was like school. You put in the hours to master the concepts, and then you passed the test. Once you learned some

14a. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part One

My therapist Judith and I argued for years over her calling my mother “psychotic.” My mother, I maintained, was a fucked-up person, but she wasn’t psychotic. Judith nev