01/26/2026
Questionnaire
Where were you when you made the decision to sign up for Ice?
When you signed the contract, did you picture your brown niece, the one you taught to skateboard?
Are you picturing her now as you pull the mask up to your eyes?
When you think of your great grandmother as a child fleeing the pogroms for life on the lower East Side, do you remember how hard she worked.
How young she died?
When you think of your brown niece on the skateboard you taught her to ride, do you picture someone with a mask, pulling her off it and ziptieing her hands?
Where in your body do you feel whatever it is you feel, when you remember the day your brown now skateboarding infant niece came home from the hospital with your sister and her brown husband and they put her in your arms?
When you think of your brother in law now, that brown man who taught you to play chess and helped you night after night with your math homework, those years you lived with your sister and him, because your father kept slamming you against the wall—do you picture someone with a mask yanking him from his car?
And slamming him to the ground?
What do you plan to do with your 50,000 dollars signing bonus?
How many masks do you have at home?
How often do you wash them?
Do any of them have blood spots?
How much does a mask cost?
—Angela McGee
Art by Ashley Brown Durand
