[localspeculation]

So this and next week? Lot of stuff. And I’m in the throes of my own making of overwhelm and anxiety, alongside systemic failure.

2 papers. Three more modules and critical responses (as well as 2 quizzes?). 1 more chapter reflection. Catching up on two reading responses I did not do earlier in the semester.

I’ll report back.

In positive news, there’s been deep learning in movement sequences.

[localspeculation]

This felt like I wrote this a long time ago.

I submitted my last paper of the semester today.

Will report back on how that and the other paper I submitted yesterday.

In other news, I gotta be nicer to myself. And I had back to back dance classes today, I felt so light and grounded.

[sontagbloodysontag-deactivated2]

Toni Morrison. Photo: Richard Avedon. Newsweek. March 30, 1981

[fotojournalismus]

Morning practice. Shanghai, 1979.

[Credit : Hiroji Kubota]

[nunhauntology]

Freed my mind to a point of no return by studying

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn't their life and our life. Nor your life and my life.

That it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes."

~Kate Forster

[nunhauntology]

My heart is aching because I finished North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I will miss the friendship of this novel so much. An uneventful, cold spring week turned passionate and warm due to the 5 days spent with Margaret Hale and John Thornton. Ache ache ache

[nunhauntology]

new didier in english :)

[localspeculation]

I started reading on the train, let’s do that again and again.

[localspeculation]

So this and next week? Lot of stuff. And I’m in the throes of my own making of overwhelm and anxiety, alongside systemic failure.

2 papers. Three more modules and critical responses (as well as 2 quizzes?). 1 more chapter reflection. Catching up on two reading responses I did not do earlier in the semester.

I’ll report back.

In positive news, there’s been deep learning in movement sequences.

[powerburial]

[localspeculation]

I’m not an all nighter scholar anymore

Give me slept three, two hours before midnight and then invited to the late night to early morning, 2am through 4am to start some digging.

And things get done. The sun rises, you’re there.

Although I would love to get an hour or 30 minutes for a nap again.

And things got done.

[funeral]

Bruce Greyson, "Congruence Between Near-Death and Mystical Experience"

[notchainedtotrauma]

Contemporary discourses on Black girls also reference this theoretical space betwixt and between, positioning Black girls between "can-do" and "at-risk", or as Cox argues, defining them "primarily by their status as both females and adults in the making."

from Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness and the Undisciplined by Amber Jamilla Musser

[fxhdskjz]

playboy dec. 1968 interview with eldridge cleaver 🂱🂱

[thequietabsolute]

Vladimir Nabokov, accounting for his notoriously poor verbal habits once said,

At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts. Even the dream I describe to my wife across the breakfast table is only a first draft. I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

[blackqueernotables]

Alice Walker: The first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. 

[cutterofcloth]