Matana Roberts

it's time for my semi annual SM break.
SM breaks are good.
See you all sometime in the fall.
Tell yr music and conceptual art friends I am here✌🏿

The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.

Nobody puts a gold ballroom in a rental. I said this would happen.

by age 30 you should have:

* strong opinions about birds
* 12 different "when i get time" projects on indefinite hiatus
* sandwich(es) you fruitlessly yearn to have again
* a growing list of obituaries you're looking forward to reading
* parasocial friendships with other people's pets

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

it’s so awesome to bike there.

on one hand i am not and never could be the youngest tenured prof at harvard law school and no one is going to make a movie about my work. on the other, a cop has never been like “sir i’m going to have to ask you to leave the pierogi stand”

Alan Dershowitz looking like absolute shit filming the police cause he was shut down at the farmers market

Please commit this picture of Alan Dershowitz filming the police to memory so my Halloween costume makes sense

( oh and women looooooove me)

hello I’m a saxophonist in a film, i’m muscular, white, and male…i also sweat a lot and have a permanent crook in my neck from throwing my head back so
much, sometimes it just locks in place and i hve to sleep like tht.

At this point they could announce that Ghislaine Maxwell is being put in charge of labor statistics and I wouldn’t even be surprised

i’m not a jackie o stan but even i’m offended by this…

right?! amazing history

the hilarious part is tht American Eagle jeans are not made in America.

literally looks like she's taking a drop in at a Lululemon pop up
G Maxwell doesn't deserve to know that kind of peace

Fitting start to #BlackAugust.

( had to hide it from my mom lol)

I had a beeper.

it looked ridiculous even covered up.

There is a a Black-owned bookstore in Las Vegas. It is called Analog Bookstore. Please support!

#Blacksky

Kinda wild how a film as impressive as “Black Is King” was basically just a side quest for Beyoncé.

he's having the time of his of his life

I remember lol

The awful impact of RFK Jr.’s actions won’t be fully revealed for years. With prevention of chronic disease, it usually takes a number of years before we see an effect.

It was at least a decade after the HPV vaccine was released before we could measure the incredible reduction in cervical cancer.

YouTube video by Noochie Snoop Dogg: Noochie’s Live From The Front Porch

I mean if these guys can do this, tiny desk can do something like it, just not at NPR, idk... this was really fun to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaHh...

apparently this is not true…yet

When the terror of ICE is so evident that your city’s local street artists do what they can to help spread potentially information. Sign by Emeyewhisky.

this nvr occurred to me😩

fuck.

On the drive home just now I was thinking about how Homer's epics were oral histories written as songs that were meant to be memorized and performed for an audience, and I realized that the Iliad and Odyssey were both very long versions of Barrett's Privateers