And, as I got older and learned how to read, I became an avid reader because I’m actually pretty shy in my real life. And I have no idea why I used napkins as my medium, but I just loved the idea that I could make things up. I would draw these villages on napkins, and then write stories about the people who lived in that village. I started writing, in an age sort of appropriate way, at four years old. GAY: I fell in love with writing very early. MCGEVNA: At what point in your life do you fall in love with words and prose, and just know that this was what you needed to do?
So I would definitely start with those two pieces. And, my piece about trigger warnings and bad feminist, I think really holds up well, and keeps coming up again and again, as we have these cultural discussions about how do we protect people, while also telling stories that we want to tell in the ways we want to tell them. And so, I wrote an essay several years ago called “The Price of Black Ambition,” that I think is something that I would include. I have pieces of mine I think have held up fairly well.
