Tag: accountability


  • The Fable Let’s start with a woman named Anna. She’s sixty-two, a retired bookkeeper, living in a modest town. Her apartment faces the main street. From her window, she can see the local hardware store, the shuttered warehouse on the corner, and the gray transformer box that hums with the town’s power supply. Anna drinks…

  • The Pavement Where the everyman is the target of the accountability regime, the non-elite woman is its collateral damage. She is neither the intended beneficiary nor the intended target. She is the ground on which the impunity structure is built. The elite woman has a pedestal. The everyman has a cage. The non-elite woman has…