The Wrath of Kwan

@thewrathofkwan

Journalist, creative writer and digital media strategist working at the intersection of communications, community, art and technology. Sigma Delta Chi Award Winner, Pushcart Prize nominee. Content Strategist at Facebook, Editor of Black Futurists Speak, articles and editorial for The Guardian, Fusion, All Digitocracy and others.

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kvvadwo

“FEELS”- Anxiety Model: @jamesacai Art Direction & Photography by @kvvadwo Editor by @kwvku

tseproductions

So Good ❤️

thebeachboys-deactivated2020050

apathetic-at-my-best

Devils Tower

superheroesincolor

Afro Samurai by Iruko Art

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yoongis-home-moved

mostlysignssomeportents

#1yrago In a time of "driving while black," the Negro Motorist Green Book gets a new edition

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a series of annual guides for African-American drivers and holiday-makers who wanted to know where they could find gas-stations, restaurants and hotels that would serve them and which “sunset towns” they should avoid on pain of violence from corrupt, racist law-enforcement.

The Green Books have taken on a new cultural relevance; they play a central role in Matt Ruff’s outstanding anti-racist Lovecraftian tale Lovecraft Country (which is being adapted by Jordan “Get Out” Peele for the small screen).

In late 2017, Jan Miles released the The Post Racial Negro Green Book, an unexpected bestseller that catalogs police killings, violence and harassment; businesses that racially profile black customers; and places where white people publicly abuse black people with impunity.

Miles created her Green Book as a way of coping with an onslaught of news about racist violence and discrimination; rather than being a passive observer of the news, she did something to process it (this is how I deal with the news, too – Boing Boing is both a public notebook and a personal way of reflecting on the news rather than letting it get on top of me).

She calls it “a snapshot of contemporary racism in America.”

It’s timely: the NAACP just released its first-ever travel advisories, warning black people to avoid both Mississippi and American Airlines.

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/29/sadly-relevant.html

theartofmany

Artist: Colie Wertz Title: smokeBreak “sketch on my ipad” Very cool…

mostlysignssomeportents

#1yrago 100 US Mayors sign a pledge to boycott ISPs that commit Net Neutrality violations

As states pass a wave of laws barred non-neutral ISPs from providing services to state agencies, more than 100 US mayors have pledged to disqualify non-neutral ISPs from getting city contracts as well.

You can email your mayor to get them to join the pledge. Participating cities include NYC, PDX, Austin, San Antonio, KC, San Francisco, Baltimore, San Jose, Minneapolis, Stockton, Newark, Jersey City, Sioux City, SLO, Cambridge Mass, Akron, Rochester, Chapel Hill, Ithaca, Boise, Fargo, Richmond (VA), East Lansing, Albuquerque, Sheboygan, Birmingham (AL), Long Beach, and many, many more.

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/29/urban-warfare.html

mitchipedia

VW bus with AT-AT legs

theselfcarelifestyle

You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it - try starting again.