Take Two: Kevin Adonis Browne and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
YouTube video by Bocas Lit Fest
The video for yesterday’s event with @drbrowne.bsky.social and I facilitated by @blacklikewho.bsky.social is here: m.youtube.com/live/qzOVkLe...
05.05.2025 10:45 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Concepts of “arrival” and “survival” are celebrated and interrogated in the latest books by @drbrowne.bsky.social (A Sense of Arrival) and @alexispauline.bsky.social (Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde).
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
@dukepress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
11.04.2025 12:36 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Really looking forward to this!
12.04.2025 23:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Informational flyer for the launch of A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne.
So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)!
The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others.
An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.
21.03.2025 03:41 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Covers of Police and the Empire City, Unsettling Queer Anthropology, When Monsters Speak, Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art, What Had Happened Was, A Sense of Arrival, Boys Abducted, and Learning to Lead, arranged in a 4x4 grid.
Among the many authors with events in April are @arlenedavila.bsky.social
@a-arvas.bsky.social @drbrowne.bsky.social and @jennrnajera.bsky.social . Hope you can make it to some!
buff.ly/49fCskA
31.03.2025 19:15 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Informational flyer for the launch of A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne.
So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)!
The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others.
An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.
21.03.2025 03:41 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A photograph of author and artist Kevin Adonis Browne as a Blue Devil, covered in blue paint with horns during the annual Jouvay ritual in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Me. Jouvay.
05.03.2025 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lessons for the End of the World
On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.
"The most salient lesson from “Sower,” for me—and one that runs throughout Butler’s work—is about the innovation and adaptation required to survive the unsurvivable."
Lessons for the End of the World | Hanif Abdurraqib
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
08.02.2025 17:49 — 👍 91 🔁 29 💬 6 📌 2
Who doh hear will feel.
13.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present, and Future
Jacqueline Couti and Linsey Sainte-Claire from Rice University’s Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures are organizing Haiti...
🇭🇹📣We are FIVE DAYS away from: Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present, and Future🇭🇹📣
↪️The symposium is free and open to all, online and in person, with preregistration at bit.ly/Haiti2025
Co-organized by MCLC'S Jacqueline Couti and Linsey Sainte-Claire.
02.02.2025 21:54 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
I know I should be promoting my book. I'm dealing with some things that have made it difficult to do much else—even promote this work that I love and that is so beautiful. I want to. But, life. I hope it finds its way to you. More than that, I hope you're finding ways to live in spite of this world.
03.02.2025 12:34 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month
The 5th Annual Edition of this Black Film Celebration!
i am reminded that in moments of tyranny, our imagination ffor better & for black futures is the first thing to be seized.
for my 5th (!) annual 28 films for the 28 days of black history month, i highlighted 28 black cinematic visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination:
02.02.2025 05:37 — 👍 675 🔁 284 💬 3 📌 17
January 29, 2025
M-25-14
MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me
SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13
OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the
President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
29.01.2025 17:48 — 👍 11921 🔁 3810 💬 690 📌 1911
Small Axe 74, July 2024 is available! Explore the issue here: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/74 published by @dukepress.bsky.social
26.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks! Sending you vibes from the Caribbean.
22.01.2025 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Made a thing today that I think is beautiful.
15.01.2025 23:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks for this.
15.01.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Wole Soyinka - Climate of Fear, The Changing Mask of Fear
Wole Soyinka considers the nature of fear and its impact on individuals and society.
In his five Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Wole Soyinka examines what we are afraid of and whether fear itself could be the greatest danger to society:
The Changing Mask of Fear
Power and Freedom
Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds
A Quest for Dignity
I am Right; You are Dead
15.01.2025 17:53 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
A journal centered on social movements and relations, linking educators, artists, & activists in the struggle for social justice.
Read: https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/
Podcast: "Kalfou: Community Centered" on Spotify, Apple, & iHeart.
Writer • It Lasts Forever & Then It’s Over • The Accident: An Account • Editor/publisher @the3rdthing.press • Website https://annedemarcken.com
Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism in southern Africa.
Lecturer, Department of Liberation Studies, University of Fort Hare.
Writer | Art Historian PhD @ucl
Interests: First person narratives, archives, memory, contemporary art. UNEARTHED (Copy Press, 2019) TIME THROUGH A FLOWER (Brick, 2022).
Professor of English Saint Louis University | Rhetoric, Media, Environment | After the Post.Human | he/him | Banner image by Will Rivers
sophist.monster
Writer & Astrologer specializing in natal & horary at rareformastro.com 🪐
Poet | Professor | Scholar | Curator @ Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP)
Professor of Rhetoric & Communication. Philosopher. Phenomenologist. Media Ecologist. Defender of the Humanities. Teacher. Activist. Gadfly. And Father.
The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all.
Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 17, 2025. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
https://linktr.ee/KrystalKavitaJagoo
Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
Assoc. Prof., c20&21 Francophone immigration literature and culture; author of Race on Display in 20th and 21st Century France and The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook. She/her. https://go.dissertationtobook.com
between Bristolian + Caribbean worlds \\ 🇩🇲 // 🇵🇸🕊️💚
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/adom-philogene-heron
The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, forthcoming 2026
Social and political philosophy, feminism, social change
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
Photo by Frank Ward, 1999
https://www.calebward.xyz/
Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
JWIL has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986.
https://www.jwilonline.org/
