Have spent the last week tackling some research notes across various projects and labs. The hauntings are immense. Picking at the documents back and forth for every whisper of flesh I can glean.
Also, as much as I don’t post here on a regular basis, I’m still considering putting some of the posts here (especially the #landofwomen threads) behind a paid subscription. Everyone already here is grandmother’d in, of course. But the internet is a wild place. Feeling like the move is to go more hermit than public square, of late. Protect your peace.
In the meantime, some quotes collected since the last scrapbook:
“As a means to an end, embodied technology makes possible the transfer of knowledge through the muscular system before cognition. Both processes, speaking in tongues and automatic writing, gesture toward ways of knowing processed through otherwise languages—modes of communication that defy systems of knowing in which the logics of spirits might be inexplicable.” - Bettina Judd, “Lucille Clifton’s Creative Technologies of Becoming,” in Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
"Hapticity is an effortful practice of exertion and an active form of struggle. It is the struggle to remain in relation to, contact or connection with another." Tina Campt
“Many of you have asked us what comes next: Shouldn’t reconciliation, repair, and reparations follow on the heels of what we learn about how our present was built upon racism and the resulting injustices. While our work doesn’t expressly craft those solutions, we know that our community needs to meaningfully act in the interest of a future that is equitable, transformative, and just.” - Hard Histories Substack
And a link
Puerto Rico's libraries, archives and museums road to recovery: Puerto Rico's libraries, archives and museums road to recovery: A timeline of events after Hurricane Maria https://scalar.usc.edu/works/prlamrecovery/index
And a pic of the Taller Entre Aguas microlab at Puerto Rican Studies Association with lab co-lead Dr. Sarah Bruno (Postdoc, Rice U), Carlos Boglio (UPR-Cayey), and yours truly.