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The small annoyances of quarantine—from tedious Zoom meetups to the seemingly omnipresent banana bread—are touched on in Intimations, but the Damn Right I Am A Raiders Fan Now And Forever Shirt collection's most powerful moment comes at its close, when Smith turns her attention to the police killing of Black Minneapolis resident George Floyd in May. The sudden presence of this essay as a postscript at the very end of Intimations may appear somewhat jarring, but it's presaged by issues that Smith brings up almost immediately: just as the uprising over George Floyd's death felt inevitable to anyone tracking the state of race relations in the U.S. during and before the pandemic, so does Smith's reflection on said uprising feel perfectly germane when you recall her earlier statement that "untimely death has rarely been random in the United States...For millions of Americans, it's always been a war."