For my new followers: writing Surviving the White Gaze was enormously challenging and deeply freeing. I am grateful to have had the support and encouragement from literary giants, chosen family, people whose work I admire so tremendously. It meant everything to me. Like @KieseLaymon: "Carroll shows, page after page, how the journey to, and through, survival, necessitates unrelenting interrogation of the nation's cauldron of innocence. Carroll has crafted a book as textured, layered and effective as any memoir penned in the 21st century."

My memoir Surviving the White Gaze, which came out earlier this year, is not just my story about the enduring trauma of being adopted into a white family, but an excavation of the chillingly foundational dynamic of transracial adoption in America. 1/1 Amy Coney Barrett's callous suggestion that birthmothers just gestate children and then give them up for adoption is sadly emblematic of that foundational dynamic. That she is an adoptive mother of two Black children all the more so.

My thoughts abt this are hewed to my thoughts abt systemic racism. It's not that the system is broken, it's that the system emboldens and promotes the fallacy of "genius" men and the women they desire and jack off to in the guise of muse. rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features… via @RollingStone There is always a racial element never discussed when it comes to these high-profile men at the center of the #MeToo movement —their desires and muses center around young white women and girls who embody a purity that black women and girls are not perceived as embodying.

I've had an enormously gratifying year creatively — I'm v grateful to be able to work across several different media platforms, and hope to broaden that work even further in 2020. Here are a few highlights from 2019. Bc Twitter. I guest hosted @crooked_friends and got to talk about interracial relationships in the Trump era w @quintabrunson and @melissafebos. crooked.com/podcast/not-ma…

I can't stop thinking abt the white boy frm the other soccer team at the after game party who was so cute and I was enamored and none of the popular white boys at my school liked me that way and this boy asked me if I wanted to talk and led me to a dark room #WhyIDidntReport Once in the room he shoved a bureau up against the door so no one could get in and never turned on the lights and shoved me on the bed and took his pants off and shoved my head down and held it there and I panicked and began to feel tears and wanted to scream #WhyIDidntReport

Honestly @jes_chastain as an outspoken voice for equality how do you pose for a photo like this and not feel absolutely mortified by the blatant exclusion? How is it possible to not understand the msg this photo sends? It is literally the antithesis of "a shift in focus" -- this is literally The Same Focus on White Women in Hollywood.

As a young black woman starting out as a producer for the prestigious Charlie Rose show, I had to gauge every day whether to respond to casual racism or sexually predatory behavior. I spoke out about racialized or micro-aggressive racism and was punished for it. The predatory behavior was ignored or accepted or laughed off -- it was inherent to our daily culture.