Gail Hamner

Archiving Eve

An “Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive,” a recent, day-long event at Duke University was bookended with excellent addresses by senior scholars Adam Frank and Cindy Patton. The bulk of the day, however, was given over to equally…

A scrap of white fabric is stapled to a utility pole with the words “No one way works, it will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down. - Diane Di Prima” stitched in black, orange, and red. Sidewalks, streets and buildings are visible in the background

No one way works,

it will take all of us

shoving at the thing from all sides

to bring it down.

Diane Di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #8

3/100

Butler: "to repair and regenerate the earth’s living processes; to accept and affirm the complexity of our embodied lives; to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable."

Kornbluh’s Immediacy or, the Style of Too Late Capitalism

Verso Press listed Anna Kornbluh's 2024 text as one of its must-read publications of 2024, and I heartily concur. To me, the experience of reading the book was watching like videos of Jackson Pollock painting, tossing splatters here and…

Phoebe Boswell:"Sami, a trans woman at the start of her transition, wrote, 'The words I do not have yet. /I do not yet have the words to talk about the things that have happened to me, as if they happened to me. /I do not have the words that connect me to others, without feeling like an imposter.'"

Black and White landscapes.
Blue Ridge fog

Phoebe Boswell: "I’ve never dreamed of a nation-state. I’ve never felt at home in a thing called place. In Kikuyu, my mother’s language, it is said that home is a river. Fluid. We need new models, new paradigms."
*5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World*

people are people are people are people are people. Must I go on?

ANYONE who has worn an f’n pin or posted/flown a rainbow flag or safe space sign better be paying attention. This is when your voice matters.

Is this true? If so, may all the curses known to humans rain down on the subhuman pos’s who did this. Just sayin’

Hey @syracuseu.bsky.social
You do realize that supporting diversity means supporting it when the going gets rough and not just when it's culturally trendy, right? Why has the Newhouse News Diversity Fellowship gone dark? @sualums.bsky.social who care about DEI should make their voices known.

Marx Capital v 3: “Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations, as boni patres familias."

US judge blocks transgender inmate's prison transfer under Trump order A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday.

Thank the goddesses. One down, a trillion trillion to go.

hmmm. I’m thinking it wasn’t DEI or the Dems

Christina Sharpe: "How must we live? What architecture might facilitate that living? What urgencies move us? What delusions of inclusion are long past time to abandon? What is the tense of our speaking, the tense of our doing?"
from 5 Manifestos for the Beautiful World

my kid keeps amending their name. All good by me. Find the shape of words that fit the shape of you/your life.

Reminds me of Nash citing Sharpe’s memory of her mother literally covering homes in the walls with flowers. Beauty as strategy, as assertion, as a bid for life.

J. Nash: "I endeavor to mobilize Black feminist theory to mark what it feels like to find oneself open, soft, receptive, vulnerable, broken open by love, by fatigue, by repetition, by devotion. I have ... a desire to underline a place where a Black feminist theoretical tradition is still silent."

heck yea

wintry scenery of a snowy hill topped by a far distant mountain top that is framed by two lines of near distant trees.

Saidiya Hartman: "Beauty is not a luxury; it is a way of
creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, a transfiguration of the given."
Cited in Nash, with her comment, "beauty as an act of subsistence, beauty as possibility."

Lo, another day stolen by insurance: I can’t find you in BCBS. I’m covered, I’ve a call out. We must charge you. Can you hold my card until I get confirmation? No- reschedule? No! What you charge me in 20 seconds will take hours to get undone. Hours later, it’s undone. But so many don’t have a card!

Ugh. Glad you hear you're on the mend.

very very very few, but oh-so-"select" (<cough cough>)

Um, @phenomenologizing.bsky.social

Also: What exactly is brand new here?

me too! Love the book.

Jennifer Nash: "an ethics of writing centers contemporary Black feminist theory’s will to move its reader...Black feminist theorists’ will & push to get under their readers’ skin: being moved—as in affected, and as in transported *by words* to the scene of loss—is a form of doing justice to loss."

Exactly. Don't give in before the fight is brought to you.

sunset over Grandfather mountain in NC

Beauty beauty