seven things I know about Michael Jackson

He changed the way we think about movement:





He refused to engage with what we wanted from a showbiz family:




He just went ahead and ignored our need to sort out his sexuality:




He knew we were racist. He used it to his advantage:






He offered us spectacle. We loved it. He knew it. He embraced it, sometimes:






Sometimes, he embraced it in more complicated ways:





He was a singer, composer, dancer, musician. A really effing good one.