#OtD 10 Mar 1896 surrealist writer, model, anarchist and anti-racist Nancy Cunard was born in London. Active in promoting Black writers, opposing the invasion of Ethiopia, helping Spanish anti-fascist refugees and working with the French resistance. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8214...
Botstein still has a job.
Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.
Exhibition at Tate was v v v good
Starting now - Black Scare / Red Scare Study Group Announcement + Some Sunday Thoughts on Iran
www.youtube.com/live/_UagCax...
from Dionne Brand's "Nomenclature for the Time Being" The beautiful innocence of those Dionne Brand, "Nomenclature for the Time Being" The apocalyptic reports have come true, dilute in our arterial solvent the atrocities saturate our latent notebooks we stay awake lambent there are iridium rectangles under our tables We meet languid, nauseous Transfused presently for a few decades, chronic, venous, insufficient the intervals of talk speed to nothing and we've become scientists of without under force, out of water, across loading with bearings, of us
The apocalyptic reports have come
true, dilute in our arterial solvent
the atrocities saturate our latent notebooks
we stay awake lambent
...
and we've become scientists of without
under force, out of water, across loading
with bearings, of us
- Dionne Brand, "Nomenclature
for the Time Being"
On deciding to be a writer, Dionne Brand said, βI thought of life itself as difficult, and writing about life as much easier. Living was hard, so writing was better.β
βUnder the cover of an existential war against the Palestinians, Israel is accelerating measures that alter Jerusalemβs demographic composition, religious character and legal statusβ - UN experts warn against the irreversible βde-Palestinisationβ of Jerusalem www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
"I was shaken by a protracted deprivation and an organized abandonment had pushed people to a point where war could begin to resemble deliverance." --- Shahram Khosravi
a clumsy self-portrait of sighting for the first time in the bookshop βcuratorial designβ book i co-edited w/Wilfried Kuehn
with curatorial design we tried to open up a space for rethinkong architcture by repositioning it in relation to public, practice and pedagogy
lenz.press/products/cur...
C. J. Sansom - Dissolution
I love to see it.
Even the Black Panthers saw the impact of automation in Detroit auto industry (faster lines, more injuries).
So they updated their "Ten-Point Plan".
βββ
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace, and peopleβs community control of modern technology.
last day to watch this incredible collection of film fragments by doplgenger (isidora iliΔ and boΕ‘ko prostran) curated by greg de cuir jr. at @eflux.bsky.social Yugoslav dissolution in the 1990s keeps on haunting me as we live within this catastrophe
www.e-flux.com/film/program...
Book: A Taste of Power. A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown
Chairwoman Elaine Brown turns 83 today. She was the first & only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.
And she led it during its most turbulent time when Huey was exiled in Cuba & COINTELPRO had decimated its ranks.
She also oversaw the expansion of its survival programs.
Happy birthday to her
This @thedigradio.bsky.social episode with Minnesota organizers is excellent, especially how they talk about multi-racial, multi-issue organizing for the long-term.
For people needing podcasts on iran:
thedigradio.com/History%20of...
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
Seems like the right time to share this again. Hereβs Menelik Shabazzβs short film Blood A Go Run which was filmed at the Black Peopleβs Day Of Action in β81 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJdf...
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Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy
Jacob Lawrence, Housing for the Negroes was a very difficult problem, 1940-41
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134645
There are two main things I believe in: liberation for all, and governance rooted in responsibility to land.
Aunting as a verb inspired by aja monetβs offering that to sister is a verb which speaks to how i try to live my life
footnoting my posts
and the interminable catastrophe comes from the fierce @balagonline.bsky.social offshootjournal.org/the-intermin...
the heartbreak comes from amazing gargi bhattacharyya who proposes that the heartbrokeness (by racial capitalism) is the new class consciousness in βwe, the heartbrokenβ www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...
Like culture posts on this app simply donβt get the engagement and I think itβs because people feel itβs frivolous and actually itβs the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works
By the way, anyone in NYC can go visit @interferencearc.bsky.social and you can ask to peruse and importantly to touch any of those posters or anything else there. interferencearchive.org
aunting is the best remedy for the heartbreak of living through the interminable catastrophe
april is 10 years since prince transitioned and i keep thinking what music he would be making for his belowed minneapolis and the ongoing liberation struggle⦠love how @vijayiyer.bsky.social listens prince as afrofuturist in this amazing conversation #imissprince open.spotify.com/episode/0EWJ...
