"A radiant vision of a hopeful Black present and future."
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"A radiant vision of a hopeful Black present and future."
@publisherswkly.bsky.social on MY CITY NEED SOMETHING by @justmaybechris.bsky.social and karim brown.
Many of us are familiar with Toni Morrison's phrase "You are not the work you do; you are the person you are," regarding her working for a white family as a teenager.
Not liking that experience, she worked for the Lorain Public Library and enjoyed it.
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Happy pub day to @justmaybechris.bsky.social and karim brown!
MY CITY NEED SOMETHING is an ode to Black Philadelphia and a recommitment to principled struggle.
Available at bookstores nationwide and buff.ly/c5q37kb
📖. I’m grateful for the kind words I received so far about MY CITY NEED SOMETHING. We set out to bring our village with us, which is to say the work shall remain unfinished until we hear from you. You too have + hold some answers that we should be writing down. www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-...
This is terrific news. Let’s help Stevie have a softer landing.
promotion for my city need something event. cohosted by hakim's bookstore and the w.e.b du bois movement school
Philly, join us, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, and karim at the Blackwell Regional Library to celebrate MY CITY NEED SOMETHING: PORTRAITS AND PROSE FOR BLACK EXISTENCE!
Saturday 2/14 12-2pm
We'll be selling copies of the book at a discounted price. See you there
Event details: tinyurl.com/2m9at7dh
What Goes Around Comes Around: On Reading the World and Hearing the Word by @justmaybechris.bsky.social
agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...
Flier for my city need something book launch to take place on February 14 at the Blackwell Library in West Philadelphia. Features Christopher Rogers and Karim Brown. Image features Black boy on dirt bike driving past the police, while eyeing them down.
🎚️. SAVE THE DATE. The flier may change but the event won’t. Just to get it out there before we all double booked.
February 14, 2026 | 12 - 2pm
Blackwell Regional Library
125 S. 52nd St. | FREE
Paperback on sale for $18 + tax
MORE: lnkd.in/e5XbywCX
photo from christpher r. rogers and karim brown's book my city need something. it's a black and white picture of three people sitting on the steps of a philadelphia home.
“A historiography of a Black Existence that blooms with the care & criticism of its poetry and photography.” —@ill-iterate.com
MY CITY NEED SOMETHING: PORTRAITS & PROSE FOR BLACK EXISTENCE by @justmaybechris.bsky.social & Karim Brown hits the shelves next month!
Preorder now: buff.ly/l8tXv0M
…I be so impulsively sharing at times. I appreciate this. If you think my posts are at that level. I’ll be considering whether this a process I can integrate. 🙏🏾
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🔥 Get ready for My City Need Something, an extraordinary new collaboration between me and karim brown that explores the heart of Black life and the power of urban community. We're offering a 25% discount on preorders — just use code MYCITY25 at checkout!
👉: www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-... 👈
Newsreel’s “films, produced during the political ruptures of the 60s + 70s, may be the closest the US has come to a homegrown revolutionary cinema. In their approach to financing, filming, + distribution, [they] embodied a genuinely counter-hegemonic method that moved beyond revolutnry aesthetics…”
NEW! 🎁 . Here’s a gift from me. Some storytelling for A Gathering Together Literary Journal, with the incredible cover image from Tafari Melisizwe. Helpful framing too for the book to come. Thank you to all who helped it reach the light. READ: agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...
Earlie Hudnall Jr. and the Jack Yates High School Photography Program.
NEW! 🎁 . Here’s a gift from me. Some storytelling for A Gathering Together Literary Journal, with the incredible cover image from Tafari Melisizwe. Helpful framing too for the book to come. Thank you to all who helped it reach the light. READ: agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/what-go...
Don’t read my new book if you ain’t ready for this. www.commonnotions.org/buy/my-city-...
“When I think abt improvisation, I go back to when reading felt fun: like when the photocopies were ordered incorrectly, + I had to flip the reader around to find the other page; or when info was cut off, and I had to figure out what was missing. For me, reading is joyful when there’s a chase.“
“How might someone read one poem as they ascend a staircase + read the same words as a different poem when they descend? How cld different sight lines create nonlinear readings?… A sentence has pockets, holes, escape hatches[: how could] those ?’s cld be translated into an architectural context?”
An embroidery hoop with floral designs and text that reads, "I Like People Who Do Stuff," displayed on a wooden surface.
Tapping my sign again.
Life is short and I want to work with people who do work. That's it.
The glasses >>>>
AKINBODE AKINBIYI.
. @makcapitalism.bsky.social "Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory w/ Christopher R.( @justmaybechris.bsky.social )Rogers | Philadelphia Portal Ep. 2" Sterling( @lbsterlingjo.bsky.social )Johnson, Jared( @jaybeware.bsky.social )Ware #makcapitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfLh...
To this end, we invite readers to consider carefully the uses of “we” throughout the piece, which are multivocal in speaking sometime to the work of BLM@School, to the work of our author team, to the work of us all in everyday educational practice, and in meaningful ways, an invitation to you, the reader, to join us in this ongoing process of collective action and reflection. If there is confusion, as we are most always surrounded by, we invite you to consider how you might choose to resolve it by placing yourself into the address. What are we asking of you? Our individual and collective work is needed to bring about the abolitionist worlds we desire. This essay is intentionally produced as a poetic inquiry, a tool for you, the reader, to go on with your thinking (Brooks, 1991) and in due process, return to us with what your experiences and experiments may reveal. We, this wide ensemble of everyday people attempting to bring about living room for us all, need your gifts.
Was closing tabs & saw this para I so admire, written by @justmaybechris.bsky.social in our new article - purposefully breaking academic form & the 4th wall, inviting in, trusting, validating, organizing...& probably answering a reviewer's Q too. Flowers, friend!
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Friday at 10 AM ET @justmaybechris.bsky.social joins the Philadelphia Portal (a Philly based media project that @makcapitalism.bsky.social is a part of & currently streams on the MAKC YT channel)
We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory
www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...
NEW! FREE REPORT DOWNLOAD! Friends of the Tanner House Presents: Making the Tanner House Dream Come True [print version coming soon…] | A reflective report on our 2024-25 neighborhood programming activities | ACCESS: savethetannerhouse.org/forlovetothr...
The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education by Drs. @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and me: citejournal.org/volume-25/is...
Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning by Drs. me, Cherise McBride, and @justmaybechris.bsky.social (also, RIP the bird app & the way we used to connect via SM for this one) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
COMMENTS: Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Thankful Poor. (9/29/2025)
READ: medium.com/@damayor/may...
