RabachK VtP: Are we all Flint?

Toxic solidarities? When does solidarity take a toxic turn?The toxicity in this case is actually a misrepresentation of the toxicity itself. In an effort to promote solidarity and attention after the Flint water crisis, activists across the country argued “We are all Flint.” This statement argued that we (how is the we visualized in an American context? Nicole Fleetwood’s Intro to Troubling Vision: performance, Visuality, and Blackness might be good to think with this) are all vulnerable to toxicity in our water. Fennel argues this whitewashes the crisis in Flint. As a slow disaster, there were many symptoms of toxicity in this place, but after the alarms were alerted, the rhetoric of toxicity continued to spread. Skirting over difference and experience is part of the toxicity.