“Yet every generation of Americans has been forced to relearn this enduring lesson, to relearn the Blues." - Clyde Woods (Development Drowned and Reborn)
"Distance is a revealing muthafucka. I am no longer the village glue. I know now that I’d rather love from afar. I’d also rather keep my phone on airplane mode." - Lisa Ventura (By 11 am – Raising Mothers http://www.raisingmothers.com/by-11-am-lisa-ventura/)
"Why is black belief beside the point?" - Ren Ellis Neyra (The Question of Ethics in the Semiotics of Brownness | Small Axe Project http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/discussions/question-ethics-semiotics-brownness)
"People in power, the ones doing the crowning, generally believe that there is no one else qualified until they happen to decide to bestow the crown.” - Kaitlyn Greenridge (in The Bind of Being First - Society's Obsession With Firsts https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a34426455/the-bind-of-being-first/)
On Lauren Olamina’s go bag (Octavia's Parables) https://anchor.fm/oparables/episodes/Parable-of-the-Sower-Chapter-7-ehjo7v
Resources from Taller Electric Marronage’s fall finale: Insurgency: Libraries and Archives Against Enclosure -
Matana Roberts (is back and) posted an archive of graphic score excerpts for her Coin Coin suite which is now on chapter four. (I wrote about Matana Roberts project and Coin Coin Chapter 1’s track “pov piti” for archipelagos journal in the special issue “Slavery in the Machine.”)
Hazel Carby and Katherine McKittrick in conversation on Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands: