I was particularly struck by the author’s conceptualization of Blackness as a “place” that can be geographically defined but also situated in time. On page 14 she writes that “Blackness is perpetually out of place and constantly running out of time.” She very poetically describes Blackness as a site of non-identity, not because of a certain lack of content but because of a struggle to even be born into existence. In her words, Blackness is not a “double-consciousness” in the way Du Bois meant it, but the locus of the ineffable, “the fantastic nowhere of blackness”. Blackness seems to be an interface, to float at the border between racist state violence and push towards progress. It makes it a paradox, a “progressive dystopia” where the actual condition of Blackness is brutally framed in the harsh reality of the present but is pushing towards a better future, not knowing if they will ever attain it.