Give thanks
Things to Watch
Things to Read
On Water, Salt, Whales, and the Black Atlantics with Christina Sharpe and Alexis Pauline Gumbs https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/the-ocean/on-water-salt-whales-and-the-black-atlantics
“We Plot to Undo the World” by Edna Bonhomme on Simone Leigh in Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/we-plot-to-undo-the-world/
Race-ing Queens (Special Issue of Scholar and Feminist) https://sfonline.barnard.edu/race-ing-queens/
She Warned the Grain Elevator Would Disrupt Sacred Black History. They Deleted Her Findings. https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-enslaved-grave-sites
Morgan P. Vickers, “On Swampification: Black Ecologies, Moral Geographies, and Racialized Swampland Destruction,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 0, no. 0 (November 29, 2022): 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2137455. (academic paywall)
A thread about Lensa AI (all those pretty portraits folks have been putting up) and the impact on privacy rights, artists, AI learning, the data being used, and more:
Projects
The AHA has launched a project called Long Overdue that offers obituaries of historians of color who were overlooked by the organization due to outright and institutional racism:
As part of the Racist Histories and the AHA initiative, this month we launch Long Overdue. Inspired by the New York Times’ Overlooked series, Long Overdue is a series of In Memoriam essays for historians of color whose passing the AHA did not mark. We hope to highlight the many historians of color whose research, teaching, and service helped to shape the discipline, and to honor those excluded by AHA practices and culture in the past.
Africa Foto Fair led by Aida Muluneh has launched:
On Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, the renowned photographer and curator Aida Muluneh launches Africa Foto Fair, an in-person exhibit and virtual community of photographers, art collectors, and supporters. The initiative aims to cultivate a new generation of visual artists, develop Africa’s creative economy and workforce, and frame the future image of the bright continent.
And, to say it was obvious that Greg Tate was loved is not even enough to hold hte love so more containers for love have been created: “Greg Tate was Loved” a Cultural/Critical Essays Archive https://gregtatewasloved.com
This weekend….
I’m in California for the Association of Black Women Historians symposium. Laid up with a migraine yesterday, but I’m looking forward to hopping into things the rest of the weekend. Love that this gathering is back in person and I know that is what you say these days, but I have no problem with hybrid or digital events. I really mean this. I’ve truly missed these ladies.