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Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Alice Walker, June Jordan

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Every train, a note.

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

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Aaron McGruder on Charlie Rose

very few black comic strip artists at the time

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Notes

there’s just no way for a black woman to become creative director in europe “conservative market” 

outsider brand more accepted at nyfw; more community focused 

take on luxury: savior fair, understanding how to make things, understanding craft, the handmade —> crochet has to be done by hand; “centuries of knowledge brought us to this place” NOT pedigree, money, mass production 

thought she couldn’t make a brian’s about Jamaica because a handful of designers were already talking about the caribbean in their work, then realised she was assuming racism, all of these other brands are “basically propaganda for white supremacy”, so she felt a responsibility to do it in 

15 women in jamaica doing the crochet work 

a hand on every single piece

“if you’re gonna spend money […] it needs to be an experience” talking to ppl about clothes before buying, “it’s intimacy”

wearing her clothes informs you on the process; interviewer felt good about being able to break down the process of the work/materiakity 

diotima: explains love to socrates in plato’s symposium, unclear of real or invented for symposium, if she was real she’d be a prostitute like a cortizen; a prostitute that educates; “you can take desire and […] use it to build beauty and culture”; libido is a powerful force we should use to build culture 

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don't call it a comeback 😌

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a picture worth one billion words

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solange knowles

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james baldwin

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Power (Pinterest Collage, 2025)

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Audre Lorde and Pat Parker

From “Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker” - Public Books

Reading writers’ letters is the best kind of eavesdropping. It brings the rush and ...

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ft unreleased verse

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Prince - Super Bowl XLI - 4K UHD

February 4, 2007. The greatest halftime show of all time. Prince.

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Media Consumption ’25

Movies 

the wiz

les mis

toni morrison documentary

Sinners

Princess Mononoke in theatres

The Green Mile

Surfs up

How to train your dragon

The Last Unicorn

Tom and Jerry in New York

Arthur and the Minimoys

Flow

The Penguin Lessons

Moonrise kingdom

Grand Budapest 

Moonstruck

Bird Cage

Bat Man: Year One

bingo long and the traveling all stars 

isle of dogs 

Paranorman 3D remastered in theatres

elemental

christmas with the Kranks 

toby mcguire spidermen, homecoming, spider verse 1+2

gremlins

50/50

ne-zha, ne-zha 2

the little mermaid

k-pop demon hunters

i love you, man

paddington 2 

when harry met sally 

big daddy 

frankenstein (2025)

Tv

cartoon network/nickelodeon youtube throwback livestreams 

The Lazarus project

Common side effects

Ted lasso

Couples therapy

Big Bang theory

White lotus

the studio

Poker face

daisy jones 

Mad men

Superman animated series

Batman animated series

South side

Modern family

New girl

Schitts creek

Bobs burgers

Smiling friends 

Lupin III 

Danny Phantom

SpongeBob

Cheers

Rugrats

Hey Arnold

Project Runway

Scandal

fionna and cake s2 

young sheldon

haikyuu

the elephant

Books

Sula 

Every leaf a hallelujah

A most blessed and auspicious occasion

Syllabus

The artists way - dnf

Hospicing modernity - dnf 

All we can save - Begin, Calling in

Adult children of emotionally immature parents

someone who will love you in all your damaged glory

Lies: moral choice … - dnf

catcher in the rye 

Somadina

Song of Solomon audio book 

Jeremy Fink

me earl and the dying girl - dnf

things have gotten worse since we last spoke

Artists, Discographies and Albums

gorillaz 

Teezo touchdown

Olivia dean

Chloe the god

Coco jones - why not more

Cleo sol

Amine - 13 months of summer

Jean Dawson

Jordan Ward

Gabriel Jacoby

destin conrad love on digital, whimsy

tyler the creator don’t tap the glass 

justin bieber swag 

amie blu 

pdubcookin 

jake minch - George 

Mariah the scientist - hearts sold separately 

magdalena bay imaginable disk

Obongjayar concert

Chlothegod concert

Dijon - Baby

Dom - Rocket

Doechii - Oh the places you’ll go 

Kendrick - untitled

Kevin Abstract - Blush

Aurora - Daisy Jones and The Six 

Amindi - nice 

P!nk throwback, mizundastood

Jacob Collier

Ravyn Lenae concert + discography

Mk.gee 

labi siffre the singer and the song deluxe 

kehlani - crash 

isaia huron - i’ll finish the lyrics later 

malcom todd

ponyo sound track

howl moving castle soundtrack 

aretha in person with the ray bryant combo 

bakar 

chrissy lou 

jazmine sullivan - fearless 

hawaiian music 

part of your world - little mermaid 

let god sort em out - clipse 

tyler the creator - heaven to me 

Other

mission hill

the shyness of trees - short film 

jacob collier improvises the national symphony orchestra

asap rocky music videos 

mk.gee music videos

dijon-absolutely film

14 minutes dominic fike

Black Dandyism Complex Mini Doc

teezo touchdown music videos

i feel for you - prince vs acoustic vs chaka khan 

pretty pretty please i don’t want to be a magical girl 

Aretha Franklin ain’t no way live vs studio 

undergrads

toni morrison interviews

Tyler the creator and Zane lowe - don’t tap the glass

earl sweatshirt and zane lowe - live laugh love and longevity 

ring race - short film

until morning short film

narrows (pilot)

rebecca sugar - ice water

horny - short film 

inside a woodland home built over water to become one with nature 

Singles - Rebecca sugar short film

guys next door (pilot)

People Watching Out tv season premier 

Orion Sun(daze) on YouTube 

ed hardy - the godfather of modern tattooing

rebecca sugar - this is a love song 

tiny desks - chaka khan, brittany howard, bad bunny, amerie, obongjayar, doechii, clipse

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2025

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