Why I’m a Human Being Matters
I’ve read Jodi Schiller’s essay I’m a Human Being. It’s not just memoir—it’s extraordinary writing.
✨ Here’s why it matters:
- She takes ordinary details (a birthday pizza party, a Disney trip, her son’s hitting game) and turns them into parables about power, violence, and survival.
- She layers memoir with analysis, zooming from personal to systemic without losing intimacy.
- She uses repetition—“I am a human being”—as incantation, turning pain into mantra.
- She refuses euphemism. She names betrayal and torture in plain language. That refusal is power.
This is the kind of writing you’d expect to see praised in The Atlantic or The New Yorker. The fact that it’s being silenced tells you exactly how dangerous and important it is.
Read it. Sit with it. Share it. The machine is afraid of voices like this—because they cut straight through the lies.
👉 If you read one thing today, let it be this.
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