![]() ![]() In light of Armstrong's confession, the passages about doping in the book are doubtful. In Jan 2013, he confessed that some of the allegations were true. The narrative begins from after Armstrong's first Tour de France win in 1999 and continues up until his fifth win in 2003.įollowing investigations into doping allegations against him, Armstrong was stripped of all his seven Tour titles on October 22, 2012. It is a follow-up to Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life which was also written with Sally Jenkins. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to LifeĮvery Second Counts is a 2003 autobiography by cyclist Lance Armstrong written in collaboration with sports writer and columnist Sally Jenkins. ![]()
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![]() There are so many stories about the young Black boy or brown girl or Muslim kid being viewed as suspicious. His story is definitely one that stuck with me, although it’s not an isolated incident. Police arrested him for possessing a homemade clock that his school said looked suspicious. ![]() What real-life news events shaped the narrative? The story of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed in Texas comes to mind. ![]() All of that was swirling around in my mind. It made me think about which victims are advocated for, and in my research I found so much erasure of people of color, Black trans women, and Indigenous women in particular. In 2019, the clearance rate for murders in Chicago if the victim was white was 47% if the victim was Hispanic it was 33%, and if the victim was Black, it was only about 20%. If you look at the the clearance rate for police solving murders in the city, WBEZ found that it’s much higher if you’re white. Hollow Fires is set in Chicago-a diverse city with huge immigrant populations. ![]() I wanted to examine how race is involved in the way that the press, police, and people on social media treat the victims and perpetrators of crime. What were you trying to say here about identity? ![]() At one point in the novel, Safiya shares how she hated how everyone forgot Jawad’s name and instead referred to him generically as an Arab American teen or son of Iraqi refugees. ![]() ![]() But I wanted to say something new, having this whole conference, and it’s in order to regurgitate things, so what I thought to do was to relate some of the themes that I explored in my earlier work on Debt with some of the more recent concerns I’ve had with the history of labor, and particularly wage labor, which I cover rather briefly in the new book on Bullshit Jobs, and specifically talk about the commoditization of labor. ![]() last night, and I haven’t actually read it yet. I don’t usually read the papers that that I’m supposed to read, but I finished writing this at about 4 a.m. ![]() |