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Laura El-Tantawy, In The Shadow Of The Pyramids

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MTV ads from the late 90s by janet jackson, missy elliott, diddy and busta rhymes.

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so apparently my city has a superhero. and a supervillain. who like, do activism. and. my mom. is dating the supervillain.

notoriousmasc

i live in norfolk virginia, and there’s this guy called the black widow who lives here

he does operate kind of like a real superhero, and he stops car break-ins and stuff like that! apparently he even stopped a case of domestic violence once. i don’t know if a lot of people know he exists, but he definitely seems like a nice dude, and he has a lot of articles centered around him

but. there’s also a supervillain?

this is Man Man, founder of “AdaManMantium inc.” He is both legally and occupationally a supervillain. that’s not even a joke he has actual paperwork designating himself as a supervillain. he even has a business card

Man Man is pretty obsessed with “testing” the black widow in a lot of different ways. like. man man threatened to give his (man man’s) cat to a kill shelter if the black widow didn’t solve a riddle he gave him (whether he actually did it or not i have no idea)

and he also got 35 people to donate blood once the black widow solved ANOTHER riddle which was cool, and there was also this time where he went to a gay bar and told people that if they bought drinks he’d send the equivalent of the money they spent to the westboro baptist church (but since they refused he sent them to a charity)

one of his more recent schemes included… going to the mayor of the city and trying to get him to outlaw masks.

the reason im telling this to you. is because

my mom is dating man man?

blocked out the private stuff but you can definitely see that its the same guy (and also him cosplaying as. Him.)

my mom has always had questionable taste in men (she had a crush on onision a while ago) but like. she’s dating an actual supervillain now which i think is fucking hysterical

so basically. tl;dr. my town has superheroes and supervillains in it and my mom has decided to date a supervillain

notoriousmasc

update: theyre engaged

theawkwardvirgin

Black Widow has a billboard and runs around with batons.

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davidmann95

People shit on Tumblr - and I know I’m biased because it’s my blogging platform of choice - but where else on god’s earth do you get shit like this

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Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (2020)

What is your origin story?

How do you heal yourself?

Imagine a world where you are loved, safe, and valued.

“Witnessing is sacred work too. Seeing ourselves as whole and healthy is an act of pure rebellion in a world so titillated by our constant subjugation,” reflects viral curator Natasha Marin, on Black Imagination. This dynamic collection of Black voices works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. Born from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are no where near monochromatic. “Craving nuance over stereotype, we sought out black children, black youth, LGBTQ+ black folks, unsheltered black folks, incarcerated black folks, neurodivergent black folks, as well as differently-abled black folks.” Each insists on their own variance and challenges every reader to witness for themselves that Black Lives (and Imaginations) Matter.

by Natasha Marin (Editor), Steven Dunn (Foreword)

Pre-Order it here

Natasha Marin is a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe and have been recognized and acknowledged by Art Forum, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and others. In 2018, Marin manifested BLACK IMAGINATION: The States of Matter, The (g)Listening, and Ritual Objects– a triptych of audio-based, conceptual art exhibitions in and around Seattle, WA. BLACK IMAGINATION is community-based, ongoing and continues to amplify, center, and hold sacred a diverse sample of Black voices including LGBTQIA+ black youth, incarcerated black women, black folks with disabilities, unsheltered black folks, and black children. Marin’s viral web-based project, Reparations, engaged a quarter of a million people worldwide in the practice of “leveraging privilege,” and earned Marin, a mother of two, death threats by the dozens.

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Sal Veder, Angela Davis during an interview with Associated Press reporters Edith Lederer and Jeannine Yoemans at Santa Clara County jail, Palo Alto, 1971

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Toni Morrison (1931–2019), U.S. author and editor (right), and Angela Davis (b. 1944), U.S. author, academic, political activist, one of the authors Morrison edited at Random House publishing company, photographed by Jill Krementz on March 28, 1974 in New York City

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Ekaterina Popova.

dating/being attached to someone who invalidates all of my feelings, withholds affection, and lies has taken such a huge toll on me. we’re not even together and it’s scary and overwhelming to think about how much I second guess my perception of reality. Not trusting myself and also projecting my insecurity around dishonesty onto every situation. it’s so stressful. It’s so agonizing having someone tell you they love you and care about you endlessly but then withhold care and respect. I just never realized how much I have been impacted that relationship. I don’t know what’s real anymore when it comes to intimacy and romance. It’s doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel tangible or attainable.

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hello---im having a good productive day and I'm about to go to my studio space and work on projects.

but I'm just stopping by to scream into the void about how I miss my ex despite him being super problematic and low-key abusive, but I just hope he is OK??? the last time we talked in an attempt to reconcile he ended our conversation by alluding he was going to kill himself and then hung up on me. then a few months later I called him when I was drunk because he randomly popped into my mind and I started worrying that he was dead. Thats literally all emotional manipulation. and I know in many ways he can't help himself and it sucks. I know we are better off without each other but sometimes I really worry and wish we could talk so I could know he was OK.

not to be dramatic, but can I get fucked on by someone who isn't trash and ultimately going to hurt my feelings because they find me disposable.

I don't want a relationship. I don't want monogamy. I just want intimacy through sex and enjoyment of shared interests.

every time I think I'm about to like someone enough to meet them and possibly have sex, their ego or lack of empathy gets in the way. I'm over it

(but not really because I want some dick)

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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015)

“The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence.

All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany.”

By Louis Chude-Sokei

Get it now here and leave a review if you can.

Louis Chude-Sokei is a professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. His essays have appeared widely in publications such as African American Review, Transition, and The Believer. He is the author of The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora, which was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

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