What Do We Inherit?
An introduction to INHERITANCE — and why it's about you.
When most people hear the word inheritance, they think of money. Property. Maybe a last name.
But the most powerful things we inherit are invisible. Ideas about success. Definitions of safety. Assumptions about who belongs where, who deserves what, and what’s worth sacrificing for.
INHERITANCE traces them back to where they started — and shows you what they cost.
Here are five essays that show how.
The American Experiment
Why does America call itself an experiment — and who consented to be tested? The question started in a Maryland classroom. The answer took six years to write.
Colonial Echoes at the Checkout Counter
What everyday transactions reveal about race, power, and who gets forgiven. It starts at a counter in Vietnam, with a price that doesn’t make sense — and a feeling that does.
The Algorithm Doesn’t Owe You an Explanation
How AI systems are normalizing decisions no one has to justify. A Black woman is flagged at self-checkout in London. A man is ejected from a store for a match that wasn’t his. The technology is new. The experience is not.
Why OnlyFans Makes Sense
On broken promises, stagnant wages, and the market value of my feet. The financial contract you were raised to trust — school, degree, career, security — stopped delivering a long time ago. This essay is about what comes after.
The Slow Burn of Becoming
What nine years of survival taught me about ambition, legitimacy, and leaving. In 2016, I was 34 years old, broke, depressed, and living in Los Angeles. This is the essay about what happened next.
Every essay starts with the same question: What did you inherit, and what are you going to do about it? Welcome.