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Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’ Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’ Views my own
Thinking about the late Dr. Lindon Barrett, writing about value as force and form…the deeply word-defying awfulness of imperialist war where the discourse on value always hides the lives whose killing it depends upon
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Thinking about the late Dr. Lindon Barrett, writing about value as force and form…the deeply word-defying awfulness of imperialist war where the discourse on value always hides the lives whose killing it depends upon
@indeedagem.blacksky.app hope it helps
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It is 😒
A yellow daffodil
“Beauty is a method” -Dr. Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Sending you good energy and well wishes 💐
In this country, the cost of death more easily met than the cost of living
Chrystel Oloukoï and I are coediting a special issue of the Black Scholar, “Black Nights.” See the CFP for all the details www.theblackscholar.org/call-for-pap...
Devastating
In this country, the cost of death more easily met than the cost of living
End genocide
End ecocide
No bombs or gates on this unownable earth
Imperialism is violence against women
“but who gave birth to a woman who wanted to be in the world true and absolutely whole and therefore lived with ghosts since that world could not happen yet.” 2/2
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
“And then there was one, another woman who did not want to be in the world, or the world she was dragged into, who noticed right away the fatal harm…1/2
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
Imperialism is violence against women
we have saved daylight
but at what cost
“but who gave birth to a woman who wanted to be in the world true and absolutely whole and therefore lived with ghosts since that world could not happen yet.” 2/2
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
“And then there was one, another woman who did not want to be in the world, or the world she was dragged into, who noticed right away the fatal harm…1/2
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
Learned that a colleague passed away and I’m sad. Life is too short. We should give each flowers while we can 💐
“1970s Beirut, he is counting the missing neighbors, tiles, borders from a broken balcony swing”
From Zaina Alsous’s poem ‘Universe in which My Father Is a Poet’
Postage note that says “We need each other” taped to sign
good signs
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Yellow blooms
Flowers for your day
They should invent a way out that isn't through
“The piece of art that they send to the future..”
Dionne Brand
On a bus ❤️
16,000 people living with HIV are expected to lose coverage from the AIDS Drugs Assistance Program due to Florida's funding cuts.
Read Kamaria Laffrey's pre-obituary as a long-term survivor in Florida.
"Kamaria Laffrey writes an indictment of a system that’s failing people living with HIV."
"Before I leave, I have a demand: a poem against extinction.”
Zaina Alsous