RaveBad FormKei Miller’s Things I Have Withheld is a brilliant collection of fourteen essays on the topic of silence and what often goes left unsaid ... Miller makes his point by recounting instances of everyday racism, such as being forced to verify his identity to campus security on his first day as a \'fully-fledged\' professor at his university, or having to hold his tongue when a white colleague makes an apparently harmless remark about his (considerable) literary talent. Miller allows these deeper meanings to percolate ... The effect of these multiple points of view is a refracted lens from which to think about race – it adds richness and dimension to a complex set of ideas (racism, class, sexism, gender) that Miller makes clear can be experienced in many different ways depending on context, geography, sex, or gender, to mention only a few ... We are incredibly lucky to have someone like Miller, who, through his work and words, has been saying the things that we, often in our cowardice, cannot bring ourselves to say. This is an important collection of essays that expose the complexities of being queer, Black and male today while revelling in the joy and darker edges of the author’s Jamaican heritage.
