@SamTecle

get to teach rinaldo walcott's "Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada; Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation" and mark campbell's "Other/ed Kinds of Blackness: An Afrodiasporic Versioning of Black Canada."

today is going to be a good day💙🖤

that means playing deborah cox, k'naan and shad...🎵🎵

Response to “Ante-Anti-Blackness”
by Christina Sharpe | Issue 1 (2012), Theory

csalateral.org/issue/1/ante...

Response to “Ante-Anti-Blackness”

"This struggle feels old but also strangely new and possibly generative in the kinds of questions it poses, the kinds of questions that might be asked, and the kinds of answers that might be given at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century."

there is a way to do nostalgia critically and generatively, and then there is what we have now, a way to do nostalgia in crass, base capitalistic ways....

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Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3

blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2...

Opinion | Rinaldo Walcott: Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke into an embattled moment. We need another like him now

need help w/ reccos, any spas in toronto or the GTA that specializes on working on Black people and their specific skin considerations? want to gift a spa + care package (facial, massage eveything) for a dear friend, but don't want to send them anywhere. anyone had good experiences somewhere?

“All artists are involved in their time.”
Dionne Brand
A Map to the Door of No Return

bilal need to come outside more

it just won't let me speak it, i gotta...

YouTube video by From My Point Of View The Sky Ain't A Ceiling

happy Black history month

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rarb...

what does putting Black hip hop artists on official canadian postage stamps allow the nation to say about its presumed historical treatment of Black people here? what does this move foreclose in terms of critique? and doing it on the eve of Black History Month is all the answer we need...

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

TEXT: But if training hasn’t worked, why does it continue? Why is it always trotted out, alongside new technologies, as the solution? Because training and technologies (body cams, Tasers, so-called less-than-lethal weapons, predictive policing software) are a boondoggle for corporate interests. Training costs money, which increases police budgets, which are paid for through taxes and bonds—a hidden source of revenue for financial institutions that administer the bonds. The money for training flows to private companies, usually run by former police chiefs and so-called criminal justice experts—not community organizations that have been fighting for accountability. Sometimes the investment in new technologies and training come from corporate-funded private police foundations, whose donations enable departments to purchase equipment, such as surveillance technology, guns, ballistic helmets, cameras, and drones, and assist officers with bonuses or legal fees, with no oversight or public input. But corporations like Amazon and Google get a great return on their investment since law enforcement agencies adopt technologies of surveillance, data mining and management, etc., coming from these companies.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

it is times like these, where hibernation makes more and more sense. stay warm and above ground until we get to the other side!

you work on your project, mostly and mainly in isolation, but with moments and instances of sociality. and while you're doing that, the whole world lights more and more on fire....

outside of questions of race and racism, policing, surveillance, Black death and resistance, Black people do in fact make. And Black people do in fact create.

this is in relation to an assignment students are working on re: the white and red papers, so the students tell me. again, very very intrigued

it is very iintriguing to hear racialized, immigrant first gen students discuss indigenous history & experiences say things like "how we treated them" and how "they were here first" i am, as always, very interested in their "we" and how their professors have instructed them which curates that we

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or, not respectfully🤷🏿‍♂️

either works...

panettone assault has commenced. let us be safe and persevere through this difficult time

mad with him, mad at him, mad at the world, mad that's it's what we have to deal with

the stages of grief are bs. sometimes you just stay being mad, sad and nostalgic and enraged and mournful and incapacitated while still putting on a front that all is well, and keep on keepin' on because that's what you have to do while a whirlwind of emotions builds up inside

who looks upon the writing of reference letters as an art? is it a craft? or an outdated practice...

at some point, you really have to just look in the mirror and ask yourself....

am i reviewer 2? have i become that which i loathe

this ONtario government and Ministry of Education wants to not only strip all public boards of all autonomy they also want to take us back in time to the curriculum and school days of the mid 1900s

in toronto at least, be it a global pandemic, full lockdown, snowstorm or buckling infrastructure, SARS or or or, i've found one thing is constant: there is always room and space for be mad about cyclists