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What has always been astonishing to me about black artists and women artists, in particular, is how they take the shit that’s been ladled out and make something of it while continuing to look for meaning in this life. Politics were integral to Shange’s existence, and to my sister’s.
Read the full story, “Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister,” here.
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“Love is like the lightning. Love is where you find it. Your maturity, I think, is signaled by the depth or the extent to which you’re going to accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.”
–James Baldwin, speaking with Terry Gross in 1986
Happy Birthday to James Baldwin who was born on this day.
In an essay that would make up the bulk of his book “The Fire Next Time,” the author James Baldwin, who would have been ninety-four today, mines the relationship between religion and race in America.
Liana Finck in The New Yorker (July, 2018)
I was so loud at my funeral. On the way down front to my casket, I paused at every third or fourth pew to wail and gnash and crumple myself up until somebody retrieved and righted me, whispering and patting me. “It’s all right, Sis Robinson. You gone up yonder to be with the Lord. …
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I really can’t recommend BOSCHPROJECT.org highly enough. All these works are by Hieronymus Bosch, his workshop, or are copies of his work. There are zoomable and interactive figures at the link, and you should really check them out.
For the last month we've celebrated Black History Month by looking at some of the great black science fiction writers (Afrofuturist is now the vogue term for
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Mahershala Ali by Erik Madigan Heck for GQ Style 2017
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Bilal X Robert Glasper X Jill Scott.
Negress Travels, Spring 2016
i been traveling and talking to people and learning from people and generally doing things. and now, a recap for the archive:
centre college, danville, ky
i simultaneously loathe diversity work but am also fascinated by it, read about it all the time, think about its limits daily, and am just generally frustrated by it. but doing the work of unpacking can be so affirming if the folks are ready.
the folks in admissions at centre, in concert with a one-man powerhouse diversity office and faculty of color, are doing. that. work. and invited me to do a workshop and lecture at their diversity recruitment weekend in march. i met some wonderful little bears, some of whom were in the posse program and some of whom will be in it, who renewed my faith in all of humanity. they were thinking, thinking, working, thinking, working, thinking, questioning, and it was good. good in a grass is greener sorta way.
southwestern social science association, las vegas, nv
i went to the other south to give the presidential plenary for sssa sociology president carla goar. i talked about ida b. wells’ as “prickly,” an idea that comes from jacqueline jones royster’s work on wells-barnett and meagan parker-brooks’ response to her work on how we need to be prickly public scholars. i met her fabulous students, saw matt hughey and david embrick, and asa minority affairs director jean shin took us to a karaoke bar and threatened to sing a country song. i also got to see my bestest friend from middle school and her grown ass child. i got one of those, too.
university of tennessee knoxville, knoxville, tn
i cannot overstate how much love and respect i have for enkeshi rodire-thom and michelle harding for being organizers at all levels and lobbying for change. got to see michelle christian and victor ray and met lots of wonderful folks also doing the work. there was also gelato.
buffalo state university, buffalo, ny
i love buffalo. i love buff state. i love this bed and breakfast there where all the blackademics stay and the owner is delightful and friends with alexis de veaux. i love the burchfield-penney. i could go on. last time i was there they had an historic second blizzard of the season.
this time, i came to support the work buff state was doing through the black cross project and talked “diversity” language and this ain’t chicago. had a good, long, intimate dialogue with a few students after the talk and got to see the *wonderful* lindsey freeman, all-around badass beth hinderliter, the lovely and hilarious jenn hunt, and the sharp christienna fryar. folks doing the work and reckoning.
mississippi state university, starkville, ms
i been meaning to get down to mississippi state, so i’m glad the wonderful maggie hagerman had me down for their lecture series on race in america. i met some wonderful students and faculty and had some great conversations about surviving this academic thing. leslie hossfeld, whom i admire very, very much, is sociology head there now. she so southern. we got some deep south work to do. stay tuned.
bringing du bois back into the 21st century symposium, clark atlanta university & southern sociological society, atlanta, ga
du bois ain’t never left, and tauheed drove me to atlanta to say just that on a panel with the scholar denied author and northwestern prof aldon morris. we talked about public scholarship, du bois’ insistence on doing sociology for social change, and the systems that continue to deny the significance of his work. i got to see fellow church of vulnerability member and lovely friend ashanté reese for all of 15 minutes at 2 AM, but it was so needed.
the next day, i was at southerns for a hot minute to sit on an author-meets-critics panel with wornie reed, robert williams, and obie clayton for colleague, friend, and north memphis native earl wright ii’s book the first american school of sociology: w.e.b. du bois at the atlanta sociological laboratory. that book so important, and so was that AMC. we need to write that up.
experience music project pop conference, seattle, wa
mane. my first #EMPPopCon was last year, and it was amazeballs. i had finally found my folks, my PEEPUL. they were there. this year i was on the organizing committee, and i got to read the amazing work of the rest of my peepul all across the u.s. and beyond. i am hooked. i couldn’t even see everybody and everything, and i went to damn near every session block. that’s how good this conference is.
i got to rap with fellow southern guh regina bradley who was presenting on pleasure politics in southern rap, learned from emily j. lordi as she advances her theory of afro-presentism, sat awestruck in the back as valerie june, k.d. lang, and merrill garbus talked voice, gender, and sound in the opening keynote, chatted with and learned from mark katz, saw former student joey thompson and uva’s grace hale who were just generally being awesome, saw the always thoughtful and awesome nick forster on young thug, met the wonderful and brilliant robin james IRL, got to appreciate the perseverance and brightness of ali colleen neff, chatted and got some wisdom from ken wissoker, got to fangirl on a panel with amerigo gazaway and rickey mindlin of the soul mates project, and met and saw and hugged so many other folks. so many good papers. there was so much. so much. so much there. probably leaving something or somebody important out. i’m so thankful to ann powers and eric weisbard for this institution and sanctuary they built and forged through fire for us.
it was a lot. i was under the weather most of the time and had to sit some things out. (i made a doctor’s appointment while on my temporary death bed in atlanta.) but this spring’s travels affirmed that i can make a world that works for me and we can make a world that works for we.
Satan Endows New Department
Large Gift will enable a “renewed commitment to the end times.”
Turning to more philanthropic pursuits to counter a spate of negative press, cast-out angel Lucifer has endowed a new interdisciplinary program, the Department of Satan Studies, at The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
“We are delighted that Satan has decided to invest in the future of young minds here at our institution. We are grateful for the Dark Angel’s generous gift and look forward to building a robust program of study,” said one of many Associate Deans.
The gift is a significant boon for the institution. It will now be able to offer such in-demand courses as Advanced Temptation and Critical Theories of Smiting. It will also provide necessary job skills for majors, training them to stay head in the face of people incessantly yelling, “get thee behind.”
“We used to have a great Satan Studies scholar, but I think she left for another institution. There are all of these courses on the books, but no one to teach them. History of Satan is being taught by this medievalist guy, which is kinda weird, plus it’s been full for the past two semesters,” said Jenny Whitestraw, who has been cobbling together an interdisciplinary major on her own based on the smattering of Satan Studies courses available and a few courses in English.
Other students also welcomed Beelzebub’s donation.
“Like, I want to be able to put that I majored in Satan Studies on my résumé, not just have a few courses on my transcript. Employers want to know you got a full education that includes trickery, temptation, pride, all of that. We’re just not competitive without this program,” John Richardtree, sophomore political science major, contended.
But faculty were uncertain about how the new Department would function.
“I mean, I heard they weren’t actually creating any new lines for this position. I’ve already been approached about teaching Satanic Methods,” said Amy Blassingame, a junior faculty member. “I’m not a Satan Studies scholar. Like. At all. I teach advanced quantitative methods.”
Several of a dozen Associate Deans were concerned about duplicating expertise The School’s faculty already has, citing the fact that one department wanted to hire a Latin Americanist when it already had a critical race scholar. Further, not hiring new faculty members for this specific area of study for which people are specifically trained is fiscally and intellectually responsible, the entire dozen intoned through telepathy.
Using his words, one Associate Dean explained further: “We are working within the challenges of new economic realities facing higher education. I think we’re responding quite well, actually. We’ve been able to maintain and grow our endowment, build new buildings for new stuff, and have all kinds of fun activities for students. That kind of savvy requires us to say, ‘hey, do we need a new faculty member in this area, or can someone with a PhD in American Studies teach this?’ American Studies encompasses everything really. We’ve got some neo-Marxist scholars, too. They know all about red scares and The Devil and so forth It’s really a win for everyone, and especially Leviathan.”
Still, faculty expressed confusion. From under his desk, one of three Faculty Persons of Color whispered frantically, “Please don’t make me design the curriculum. I got to finish my manuscript. Please don’t make me design the curriculum. I’m calling on you, Jesus. Please don’t forsake me,” as he rocked to and fro.
On a Reddit board, some alumni were worried about what Satan’s gift would mean. They seemed torn about what was obviously good for their institution--money--and something that could perhaps possibly be bad for humanity--building a curriculum on behalf of the Ruler of Darkness. But soon, this worry abated as a flood of messages in rapid succession Satansplained why this could only be wonderful for the institution. This was a representative post from the flurry:
“DUDE. SATAN IS THE ONE WHO TOTES ENCOURAGED EVE TO EAT FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. COLLEGE IS KNOWLEDGE. SATAN IS ENCOURAGING KNOWLEDGE. IF YOU DON’T THINK HE IS YOU’RE A STOOPID CUNT WHO NEEDS TO READ THE BIBLE.”
“It could be worse,” another alum wrote. “Someone could have donated money for the creation of safe space for marginalized people and victims of sexual violence on campus. What would we do then?”
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Come out to Hamilton Middle School on October 24, 2015 for a reproductive justice summit hosted by SisterReach. Participation is free, but advance registration is required. http://sisterreach.org/memrjsummit
In Ecuador’s contemporary social imaginary, the story of blackness is seldom considered through the lens of racial slavery. This is certainly true of a number of countries in the Western hemisphere. Indeed, not only is slavery pushed to the margins within contemporary Andean imaginary, but it is often eclipsed by discourses of mestizaje (race mixture) and stories of relative freedom. Ecuador’s preferred national narrative of blackness begins in the province of Esmeraldas, known in the popular imagination as a free black and indigenous enclave that came about following the wreckage of a single ship along the coast of Ecuador.
Sherwin K. Bryant, “Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito” (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014). (via afrocatracho)
