... Chapter 3 is a conversation between Terry Smith and Mary Kelly from 1995 concerning the context in which the latter conceived, displayed, and presented her pathbreaking work, the Post-Partum Document (1973–79), which tracked and analyzed mother-son relationships to thought, language...

... This conversation is organized by two questions: How do we make sense of the fact that racist and colonial structures of human fatality have persisted, and at times seem to have grown in reach and sophistication, in the aftermath of the past half century’s major movements for progressive social...