TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever - ePublication
THE STORY: TJ loves Sally. Sally does not love TJ. TJ is a University Dean. Sally is a student. Welcome to Commonwealth of Virginia University, where a modern education is rooted in the nation’s “complicated” history. As the campus wrestles with its antebellum legacy and the names of slave-owners on university buildings, Sally finds herself locked in a more personal battle with Dean TJ. TJ LOVES SALLY 4 EVER reimagines Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson as a student and a dean at a southern American university, and dismantles the legacies that keep us bound amidst a swirl of marching bands, step teams, and bubbly tour guides. How do we reckon with an inheritance we never asked for?
“Confrontational, compassionate takedown of a host of social toxins” — The New York Times.