MaryEighteen months after the Open Table's founding ceremony, Nadia Voss stood in the coalition's main assembly hall and delivered a speech to an audience of two hundred supernatural beings, about half of whom had come through the Bloodless community and half through various other routes to the Open Table program.I had not asked her to speak. She had requested the opportunity through proper channels with a formal agenda item and supporting documentation, which told me something about how she operated when she was working with people rather than against them.She spoke for forty minutes without notes.She talked about what it had meant to grow up permanently powerless in a society that assigned worth by ability. She talked about the specific humiliations, small and large, daily and occasional, that accumulated over a lifetime into a particular quality of exhaustion. She talked about what it felt like to find, in her academic work, a framework for understanding that exhaustion as syst
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