She and Kauanui met almost 25 years earlier, when Kauanui was a 28-year-old graduate student in the history of consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Smith was a young divinity student who planned to go there for her Ph.D. If only Andy would do this.”Īndy is Andrea Smith. “When I read it, the very first thing that came to my mind was: Oh, my God. “It was a fantasy piece,” she told me the first time we talked, last November. But Kauanui wasn’t thinking about Krug she was thinking about Andy. It was that kind of story, the kind that spreads so fast and so far it soon seems that everyone has read it, and everyone has had a reaction: shock, disgust, anger, amusement. The confession was posted only minutes earlier, but already six friends had forwarded her the link. “I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years,” she continued, “but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics.” “To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City,” wrote Krug, a history professor who had for years identified - and published - as a Black and Latina scholar. She was reading a story on her phone in bed, a confession written by a woman named Jessica Krug, when, quite suddenly, it yanked her into the past. It was a Thursday morning last September, and J. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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