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www.youtube.com/shorts/ujjBH... Yorkshire lass Amaya Mwitis sharing her morning routine! She is brilliant, a budding #polyglot and the future Prime Minister of the UK. Wonderful parents and a handsome brother Remi.🙂 #CBeebies #BBC #TheMwitis #parenting #tiktok #lovewins 💙 #childhood #family #love
Thanks. I'll find it nearby and pay less than $10. I'm near so many great used book stores and tend to be super lucky. Just takes patience. In fact, pretty sure I've seen it, but it was before I knew what it was.
And you could tell that he could have said so much more in that video, but he was choosing his words carefully. Same worh this one. Instead, he spoke the most through his work. youtu.be/Z2ytkFDzdbk?...
he talks like me. at 3:45 he talks like me
I'm psyched that I found a used (but pristine) copy of "Flash of the Spirit" by Robert Farris Thompson a couple weeks back. Still on the look out for the Dreyfuss book.
If there is anything I have learned from writing a book that spans 67,000+ years and a great many disciplines, it's that SO many academics have really poor citation practices.
Reminder what the book bans are really about- religious groups forcing their morality on kids attending public, non religious schools
My Criterion Channel recommendations: *Losing Ground *Cane River (Louisiana Romeo and Juliet, but Creoles vs non-Creoles!) *Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One & Take 2 1/2 *Down in the Delta (dir. by Maya Angelou!) *Daughters of the Dust (Arthur Jafa!) *My Brother's Wedding *Sidewalk Stories
And that conversation absolutely belongs. "The theories in BLKNWS are bolstered by Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe and Dionne Brand’s scholarship, and the film’s formal experiments are inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, Arthur Jafa and Julie Dash... honors his late brother Noah Davis.." #BlackSky
Virgil Abloh: Black influence has created a new ecosystem which can grow & support different types of life that we couldn’t before.. Arthur Jafa: I call that a black terra form.. it's frightening! It’s the transformation of the cultural ecosystem. And it’s totally counterintuitive under capitalism.
‘Black People Figured Out How to Make Culture in Freefall’ Arthur Jafa on the Creative Power of Melancholy news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...
Thanks!
Making it without the salt pork and chorizo, but I'm sure the original recipe slaps! Vegetarian sausage and a lot more seasoning should sufffice.
Ooh, I just might make the second recipe, Alubias Rojas de Tolosa con Berza (Red Beans with Cabbage) from the Basque province of Guipúzcoa 🍽🥘🎉🍛🎊 Found different recipe is below #SoupThread 🧵 #SoupSeason #LearningSpanish
Let soup season commence! 🍽 🎉 🥘 🎊🍛 ...
RT in my 🐦 archive by @obyrska.bsky.social "One of the photos that inspired me to choose immediate post-WW2 history .. was photo by Michael Nash from in Warsaw in 1946. It shows everything I've been writing about: the destruction, the hope, the need to rebuild lives, the contrast between the two."
September's free ebook from @illinoispress.bsky.social is here! Check out "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" by Mirelsie Velázquez #Education #History www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/fr...
English: Birds of a feather flock together. French: Qui se ressemble s'assemble. —— English: A guilty conscious needs no accuser (AAVE, a hit dog will holler) French: Qui s'excuse, s'accuse. #French #LangSky
The Netherlands, too.
For a very intense few seconds just now, I genuinely forgot how to spell “target.” The boycott is working!!!! HOLD THE LINE!!!
"The stakes in our larger struggle against this death-making system...can be less visible to us because systemic violence is more widely distributed and largely normalized. Effective organizers emphasize the connections between struggles, instead of making totalizing comparisons." 🫂 - Chapter 5
My sister in London just sent me this, seen in the £1 shop on Hounslow High Street.
Would watch as a TV show
"Higher education is in for a long period of financial distress. And as bad as 2008 was for young scientists of color hoping to start their careers in research-oriented universities, this crisis will be much worse." www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
I saw an exhibit called “Archive and Autobiography” with project by Chinese MFA grad Zuofu Wang on treatment of Chinese workers on Florida citrus farms, in N.E. factories & during construction of U.S. railroads where many died. 20,000 workers, yet they were excluded from famous Golden Spike photo.
Post 👆🏾 begins 🧵 on another terrible episode in U.S. history. Union Pacific Coal hired Chinese miners at lower wages than white workers would accept. #OTD in 1885, white miners killed 28 Chinese miners, injured more, burned 78 homes. No one was prosecuted for the murders or burning entire town.
Yes, and it can be taught via art. Via art, I learned how many of the 20,000 Chinese workers who built the railroads died. And how no Chinese workers were included in Golden Spike photo that documentated joining of east & west lines for posterity. And how reenactments reproduce original erasure.
I saw an exhibit called “Archive and Autobiography” with project by Chinese MFA grad Zuofu Wang on treatment of Chinese workers on Florida citrus farms, in N.E. factories & during construction of U.S. railroads where many died. 20,000 workers, yet they were excluded from famous Golden Spike photo.
Post 👆🏾 begins 🧵 on another terrible episode in U.S. history. Union Pacific Coal hired Chinese miners at lower wages than white workers would accept. #OTD in 1885, white miners killed 28 Chinese miners, injured more, burned 78 homes. No one was prosecuted for the murders or burning entire town.
Image below is The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, WY, Sept 2, 1885 drawn by T. de Thulstrup (1848-1930) from photos by Lt. C.A. Booth It shows Chinese miners working for Union Pacific Coal Co. being attacked by armed white miners who blamed them instead of railroad owners for lost jobs.
The animating philosophy of the current administration is white racism which is, at its core, violent:
“It doesn’t matter that chatbots generate nonsense; their persuasive power lies in their ability to arrange text in a manner that seems plausible and compelling to an individual user based on the latter’s preexisting worldviews.”
Top notch. 🏆😄 🌭🍟 *re: how breakup of Kraft Heinz will separate ketchup & mustard
Conscious condiment uncoupling.
God forbid we hire actual people to do stuff like teach
Methinks I shall make Pauline E. Hopkins a focus of my #SpookySeason2025 reading. I get the feeling there’s some interesting rabbit holes waiting for me. #SpookySeason #BlackWomenWriters
We are not going back, no matter how much those racists want us to.
Using a photo already on your phone, what is the announcement at 2?
Teachers are ALREADY underpaid for their level of education and expertise. This talk about replacing them completely is something else... *glares above her cat-eye glasses*
🌞Good morning! Wishing you a terrific Tuesday with this blue beauty from Gamble Garden! #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #ColorADAy #BlueTue
www.kjzz.org/indigenous-a...
While this piece focuses on the UK, much of this has application Stateside. And yes... "Universities are not companies."
#globalsumudflotilla 🇵🇸 “Notre objectif est simplement de briser le siège de Gaza” ✊ Le petit-fils de Nelson Mandela rejoint la plus grande flottille civile pour briser le blocus israélien illégal. Pour rejoindre et soutenir le mouvement : 👉 Délégations […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
I support the #GlobalSumudFlotilla ! 40 boats from 44 countries are sailing to #Gaza to #BreakTheSiege and demand to take immediate action to #EndGenocide
Beware generalizing "the left"; it's not a monolith. Even though it seems like a large demo on here, that doesn't mean there isn't a sizeable % on other platforms. And X isn't the only alternative. I don't get why *some* worry about who's still there or write thinkpieces on what BSky is or isn't.
Shared by @artstuffmatters.bsky.social on 🐦 “Real resistance always looks like betrayal ‘cause it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to defeat an enemy and not become the enemy.” - William Pope.L, “Canary in the Coal Mine,” Artforum, 70,3, Fall 2011
And here we are... ...
The story: real artists complained. Art proved to be AI and he was asked to leave. He said “no” so the police were called to watch him while he packed his AI crap up. F him & F AI slop!
Dragon con remains undefeated.
2. There is something going on in the fried chicken #LinguisticLandscape too and more and more, with fast food trends, the two cuisines are being served in the same restaurant as with this chain which serves both burgers and chicken. Different but just as interesting representations here . . . .
1. There is something going on in the burger #LinguisticLandscape of Korea. Something maximum? Something to do with meat and masculinity? Something to do with style and excess? Something interesting, regardless . . . .
You’re not imagining it . A lot of things suck right now Media service Because we stopped ( were stopped) from considering diversity and it’s bad for EVERYTHING Regressing to the statistical mean is AWFUL for human experience
This Kraft-Heinz decoupling must be devastating for the villainous apostates that put ketchup on their hot dogs.
Idk exactly what he's going to announce but it's a safe bet that A) it's something he doesn't have the legal authority to do B) it won't be covered that way
Decolonising the mind, or a painful parting with beloved literature? #war #trauma #lingsky #books #Russian #Ukrainian #LanguageAndConflict "Tainted love: how Ukrainians are ridding themselves of Russian-language books" | Ukraine | The Guardian share.google/XlSE9WdRHvgj...
20 books that have stayed with or influenced me. Day 2 #Blackademics #AcademicSky #Booksky
Because racism.
i have a silly sense of humour. Been laughing at this for 10 minutes
shabaka & the ancestors THEY WHO MUST DIE youtu.be/rpyoP3x9-hk?...
Ha, I explained this expression in class yesterday: Tirar de + algo (Like “Pull from” something”) Means using a resource or something, often initially not meant as the first option. ¿No entiendo palabras? Tiro de contexto. ¿No tengo dinero? Pues tiro de ahorros. #learningspanish #langsky
I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices
BEWARE: Alt-txt is empty and link doesn't add info. Bailey’s painting derives from a 18th century engraving diagramming a cargo ship that transported 500 enslaved Africans to Jamaica. Removing half and making figures white protests 1869 SCOTUS decision. www.moma.org/collection/w.... With alt-txt
Hence why Jay-Z could never be him.
Propeta, 2021 Gisela McDaniel "McDaniel's work engages processes of healing for “womxn” and nonbinary people of color. Her mixed-media assemblages are created using oil paints and donated objects from her sitters, which bring a palpable physicality and a tactile materiality to her portraits."
Sadly, the Black model in Kirchnerʻs painting isnʻt featured in Posing Modernity. Curious about how she crossed paths in Berlin with a German artist who seemed to be going through it in 1911. She looks sophisitcated and cosmopolitan. blackcentraleurope.com/sources/1850...
Frauenbildnis (Portrait of a Woman), 1911 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880-1938 #ArtSky #BlackSky
At @ 6:41, Basquiat says "I never went to an art school. I failed the art courses that I did take in school... I learned about art by looking at it, by going to museums.." And he read voraciously. A lot of the iconography, the vocabulary of symbols that he used, are from "Flash of The Spirit".👑🎨
Saw another Basquiat piece at "Edges of Ailey" exhibition. Hollywood Africans, 1983 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas Jean-Michel Basquiat b. 1960; Brooklyn, NY d. 1988; New York, NY
Born in Brooklyn to Haitian and Puerto Rican parents, Basquiat often made references to ancient Egypt in his work. 2 books that influenced him are: "Flash of the Spirit" by Robert Farris Thompson and "Symbol Sourcebook" by Henry Dreyfuss Kings of Egypt II, 1982 JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)
There are plenty of topics if they weren't worried about offending the wrong people.
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
Earlier today, someone mentioned that they had never heard of Beloved. Not never read it, but never heard of it. Any other country, it would be required. Aside from the fact that Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize for it, she depicted the terror & cruelty of slavery via a real person— Margaret Garner.
😂 He does look like him.
The French version was only one season. www.imdb.com/title/tt1418...
I get it. 😆
The Excruciating Question Confronting Black College Applicants | Justin Driver "For striving Black high school seniors, the generalized essay anxiety arrives in a particular, acute form: Should my personal statement address race?" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Happy Labor Day: academic.oup.com/jsh/article-...
"For generations, Black farmers have been left out of subsidies, loans, and access to land. The USDA didn’t serve Black farmers… Only 1.4% of U.S. farmers today are Black. In 1920, it was 14%. In Ohio, it’s less than 1%. From 16 million acres owned by Black families, we’re now down to scraps." 🌱
Great backstory, even better music. There are a couple of hours' worth of Vicente Lusitano's music on Spotify (and probably elsewhere, and hopefully more in the near future), and if you're into Renaissance polyphony or just music to sober and quiet the mind, you ought to check it out.
Some historians identify 2 broad groups in pre-colonial Africa: communities that established empire states and those that did not. Paul Bohannan refers to Africa’s stateless societies as “tribes without rulers,” a form of “ordered anarchy.” - Mbah Full text: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sam-...
My wife @tekla.bsky.social is reading a biography of her, Goddess of Anarchy, and giving me facts. She was incredible and incredibly interesting
Lucy Parsons was a 19th century mixed race woman who was a leading anarchist, and labor rights and women's rights leader. #BHM aas.princeton.edu/news/radical...
There was a story about him in The New York Times a while back.
Looks like an amazing event! 🎨
The time will fly by and you have one of my favorite chapters already. 📚😊
Related note, highly recommend The Young Karl Marx (2017), directed and co-written by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck ("I Am Not Your Negro"). Characters are reading excerpts of Adam Smith, lot of speeches on labor, and some big omissions*. Free on Kanopy via library and Internet Archive. #FilmSky
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Image below says: Registration is Open 10 in person panels, 5 hybrid panels, 12 online panels 2025 Feminist Art History Conference American University, Washington, DC September 26 – September 28, 2025 www.american.edu/cas/art-hist...
I have a master of public health, but it wasn’t until my grandmother got sick and started researching what assistance was available that I found out exactly how states use Medicaid to essentially steal from families that can’t afford to pay for treatment. They’re almost state-run reverse mortgages.
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Marx was a toxic friend. He cheated on his wife Jenny, fathering a baby with her childhood friend (& servant and their housekeeper), then forced Engels to claim paternity to save his marriage. This isn't mentioned, but movie foreshadows how Engels married Mary Burns' younger sister after she dies.
Highly recommend this film. You can catch it for free on YouTube.
Re/watch Raoul Peck's The Young Marx. It includes quite a few historical figures and depicts how Marx and Engels' thinking evolved, leading up to writing of manifesto. (Kanopy via libraries, Internet Archive, free) youtu.be/hVTDoZLssg8?...
When Labor Day was est. as a holiday in 1894, ~ 30 yrs from slavery’s abolishment, it represented a key U.S. paradox: Black workers continued to be excluded from labor unions and benefits via Jim Crow laws, systemic racism, sharecropping systems, and other exclusionary labor practices. #BlackSky
The British one or the French one? (Yes, I just found out too.)😊 I love Idris Elba's Luther. His character is flawed and complicated.
It felt like stomp the yard in my brain all day. Finally feel okay enough to paint…lots more work to do, but this commission is coming along 🍃🐝🌻🌿
I should be asleep, but here I am #drawing #BlackArtist
It's a chapter from this amazing book by Saidiya Hartman.
"Esther’s only luxury was idleness… she was fond of saying to her friends, 'If you get up in the morning and feel tired, go back to sleep and then go to the theatre at night.” With the support of her sister, grandmother, gentlemen friends, [and day work] … she had perfected the art of surviving."