Scars form quickly when you are surrounded by love.
Category: thinking
Aesthetics & Theory across Africa & Afro-Diaspora
"From at least the late nineteenth century, African and Afro-diasporic intellectuals pursued a double strategy of writing and publishing in specific disciplines while also creating aesthetic works."
Reflection
Binyavanga harmed people. Some of them I knew, most I didn’t.
after Rona
We do not know when or if Rona will leave or take us with it.
& Other Pleasures
Although we seek escape, our goal cannot be to remain fugitives.
Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals*
ritual encounters—of movement building, of academic speculation—move through this work, and we are invited to witness and participate
Familiar Ground
Race and ethnicity buttress each other. Both are fictions with real effects, tied to how we experience ourselves as human.
UNK Male
I want something impossible from Pose: a show crafted from impossible fractures and unbearable traumas, a show we—I—might not survive.
Reviewer 2
Reviewer 2 is fantasy and fact, the inescapable nightmare and the banal experience.
screaming as method
How many centuries of terror populate the singing woman’s sorrow song?
