#theme: blackness

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To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life – Scalawag

In 'To Whom This May Concern,' Jill is not performing at the listener but speaking with us, across a kitchen table, outside the corner sto’,

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Beauty Is a Method - Journal #105

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Forget the Bending. Who’s Doing the Choosing?: Notes on Black Queer Femmes Acting on Their Desires

This is much deeper than being "the prize". Set the rules for the entire competition, my loves!

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A quick footnote on Leiber and Stoller, Elvis, Willie Mae Thornton and Internet Hounds

White people's age-old aversion to and obsession with Blackness is alive and well in the knee-jerk fandom of its pasty netizens

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Morning Read: July 15 2024

a critique on media marketing to Black folks, racial categorization, and the harm of Tyla (light skinned artist) avoiding Blackness

Take-aways: not much that I didn’t already know, just solidified that there is anti-Blackness at work in the presentation & success of Tyla (against the presentation & rise of say Tems or Ayra Star) that Blackness in music is over-consumed by capitalism, presentation, product and lacking in true political roots at it has in the past.

Gatekeeping as Safety and the Identity Question Around Tyla — AmericaHates.US

In a candid exchange with a colleague who is South African Cape Coloured, I asked him about his background, he vaguely stated Southeast Asia