UNSPUN
TAYLOR ALLYNCultural criticism on race, desire, and survival.
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In the Presence Of
Damien Reuel Rucker
MOVEMENT I
Damien Reuel Rucker
is a writer who thinks the way pressure builds: patient, precise, until the thing being held can no longer hold its original shape.
His essay series What is a Man? has been...
A LYNCHING
Composite image by Taylor Allyn, incorporating a lynching postcard image courtesy of the Equal Justice Initiative and a party photograph sourced from Facebook.
There is a kind of restraint this country specializes in.
Not the...
LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT RICK & MORTY QUOTE
She’s Still Driving / Taylor Allyn, 2026
“You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled.”
— Christopher Priest, The Prestige
There is a face Ta-Nehisi Coates makes in that clip.
You know the one. Ezra Klein has just cited Ri...
TREMENDOUS
The Performance Had Already Done the Face’s Work. / Taylor Allyn, 2026
Something goes numb before the argument begins.
Not fear, not anger. Something older and less dramatic than both, the body’s way of managing a recognition...
AN EXTRAORDINARY WHITE LIFE
The frame was never shared. It was taken. / Taylor Allyn, 2026
There’s a joke that starts like this.
A Black man and a white man walk into a 7-Eleven.
The Indian man was already there.
“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You...
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Cultural critic and essayist. UNSPUN is my record of contemporary American violence and survival, written as a Black, queer, HIV-undetectable writer, with essays that move between testimony and record.
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