base: Nonkululeko is black and beautiful; gods, I'm smitten, I'll admit, but there's no one I'd rather be smacked upside the head with my own provincialism by.

Night Crow: I know how hard the struggle can be to see double, to speak in two languages on top of each other, to oscillate, vibrate even, between a enacting a profound but participatory antagonism with the white man's world, and being a borderline half-in half-out presence in one's birth community. I think she does it well, nobly, with grace and spit; and I pray for her spirit, as well, that she finds ease along the journey.

Regina: Yes. Her ancestors are alive with her. She is asking us to wake up to our ancestprs alive with us as well.

Jax: And at the same time her theoretical interventions sparkle. I'm impressed, always impressed.