It does take two to hold a chain: the chained, and the chainer. And it takes two to make anthropology: the student and the studied. And though no group has had more money spent on it to have its genetics examined, its fecundity stopped, its intelligence measured, cross-acculturation is consistently neglected, and I would like to know who are these people who know our sperm count, but they don’t know our names.
Toni Morrison speaking at Portland State University in May 1975 [partial transcript here; which was quoted here]
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 