Mr. Putin’s succession and (likely) restoration is a leisurely dance of the seven veils in which one veil is dropped only for another to be donned.

Rodney's not here; after the shootout, he went down and won't be back for at least a year.

a rust spot smearing the back of the sink

That process of creating new social subjects does not assume that identities and interests flow mechanically from class positions, but recognizes the pluriverse of overlapping identities (intersectionality) that include experiences filtered through lenses of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, generation, religious/spiritual outlook, and cosmosvision.