Yvette Greslé - Writing in Relation

Cover of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Volume 24, Number 1 (2025), themed "Indigenous Feminisms Across the World, Part 2." The artwork features a golden, stylized female figure merging with a tree, her arms extended as bare branches. She appears to be holding up a large, glowing moon set against a textured, watercolor background in shades of blue and teal, with splatters of black ink and shimmering accents.

The Weekly Read is "Storytelling from the Heart: A Feminist Decolonizing Humanism" by Ashjan Ajour. The article is published in Indigenous Feminisms Across the World, Part 2, a special issue of Meridians.

Read it for free through 8/15: buff.ly/WR7F3OA

YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic As

Stevie Wonder is 75 today. It’s hard to choose just one recording from his amazing discography, but I often play and dance to “As,” on repeat. “I’ll be loving you always.”

youtube.com/watch?v=eLbm...

Koyo Kouoh, pan-African curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA, 1967-2025 Zeitz MOCAA announced her ‘sudden passing’

This is such a shock. How can this be. A huge loss.

artreview.com/koyo-kouoh-p...

📢 Reminder: Oh Big Blue launches tomorrow!
So far, only 35 are registered — but this is a moment that matters.

📅 May 3 | 🕑 2PM Palestine | 12PM UK
📍 Online
💙 Hear young poets from Gaza & the West Bank read their own work live. Their voices deserve to be heard.
🔗 Register: mailchi.mp/5660ad6aeee0...

on beauty every day

Robert De Niro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’ After her announcement of her transition, the actor said: ‘I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter’

I also don’t know what the big deal is.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin wins $150K Carol Shields literary prize The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

"Canisia Lubrin's prose is polyphonic …The stories invite you to immerse yourself in both the real and the speculative, in the intimate and in sweeping moments of history. Riffing on the Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes the legacies of slavery, colonialism and violence." www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

I can’t wait to read it!

Dionne Brand. “On American Numeracy”

Next week!

Register at the QR code or here if there’s still availability:

tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi...

In an effort to keep things fresh as spring is here, or approaches 🤔, I will be presenting some new work.

The writing's on the wall... — The Hands Up Project ’ve just returned from the National Education Union’s annual conference in Harrogate in the north of England, where the Hands up Project had a stall selling our books, showcasing our new exhibition ‘O...

🧱✍️ The Writing’s on the Wall — a new blog by Nick Bilbrough on how Palestinian students turn walls into messages of hope, resistance & truth.

Read it here: www.handsupproject.org/blog-hup/the...
#HandsUpProject #TheWritingsOnTheWall #VoicesFromPalestine #YouthExpression #NickBilbrough

Dionne Brand
Inventory

to revise and revise this bristling list,
hourly

planting

The notes are a profound philosophical act of inventory, embodying the ordinariness of all the continuums of unending iterations of white violence. The grinding, diminishing, destructive horror of it all, the innocuous that is not innocuous.

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YouTube video by vfouli60 Nina Simone- Everything Must Change

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Israel kills, lies, and the Western media believe it The execution of 15 Gaza medics and rescuers demonstrates just how normalised the dehumanisation of Palestinians is.

We do not just grieve; we defend our grief. We do not just bury our dead; we fight to have their deaths recognised. We live with a psychological pressure no community should bear – the pressure to prove we are not what the world has already decided we are www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

having a little sit down on our afternoon walk

Key point - “very little research into the causes of the disease or how to treat it”

Major endometriosis study reveals impact of gluten, coffee, dairy and alcohol Edinburgh University report authors say dietary changes could benefit women living with the disease

I am so careful and still half dead from the condition.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...