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Willy Ndatira

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i don't typically channel messages with intent but it happened this morning and this is what came out. typically these start to make more sense in the coming months. we'll see i guess.

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imagine the bee part being ab beyonce finally winning a grammy for album of the year… someone fought for that iktr :)

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stella chiweshe <3

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Ever since I found out that earthworms have taste buds all over the delicate pink strings of their bodies, I pause dropping apple peels into the compost bin, imagine the dark, writhing ecstasy, the sweetness of apples permeating their pores. I offer beets and parsley, avocado, and melon, the feathery tops of carrots.

I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar—though now, it seems, they bear a pleasure so sublime, so decadent, I want to contribute however I can, forgetting, a moment, my place on the menu.

Feeding the Worms by Danusha Laméris

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ukweli

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“Does the sun ask itself, “Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?” No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, “What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?” No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, “Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?” No, it burns, it shines.”

— Andrea Dworkin, Our blood: prophecies and discourses on sexual politics (1976)

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Building on insights from this body of work, I consider the ways that ‘time’ and temporality intersect these forms of pedagogy. I argue that in order to reconnect to our bodies in the academy and center embodied pedagogy in the classroom, we must reconceptualize and move beyond Eurocentric notions of time that colonize our academic lives. This entails slowing down and ‘being lazy.’ By ‘being lazy’ I am referring to being at peace with ‘not doing’ or ‘not being productive,’ living in the present, and deprivileging the need for a result with the passage of time. I use the term ‘lazy’ to provoke my readers, and to prompt interrogation of the negative colonial connotations attached to this term. I reclaim ‘being lazy’ as a transformational heuristic device in the neoliberal academy.

Riyad A. Shahjahan, Being lazy and slowing down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy

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“Longing is long, never short”

— Mary Cisper, poem title, Colorado Review (vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2019)

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Maty Ndiaye & Nicole Atieno by Carlijn Jacobs for Vogue Netherlands - November 2018