Voice Acting While Black Is Still Worth The Fight

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/gachiakuta-jujutsu-kaisen-zeno-robinson-jabber/

The Bell Finally Tolls For Tyler Perry

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://aftermath.site/the-bell-finally-tolls-for-tyler-perry/

Der Literaturbetrieb liebt das Elend, solange es sich gut verkauft. Hier wird diese Obsession nicht nur verspottet, sondern seziert. Präzise, Boshaft, und mit einem Lächeln, das schmerzt. Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Cord Jefferson adaptiert den Roman Erasure von Percival Everett und verwandelt ihn in eine bitterkomische Abrechnung mit einem Kulturbetrieb, der Schwarze Erfahrung normiert, verengt und kolonisiert. (ARD, Free-TV-Premiere!)

I love my Blackness.

I love being Black.

I wouldn’t ever want to be anything else.

I love who I am.

Black Is Beautiful.

Blackness Is Beautiful.

Always and forever. ✊🏿

#black #blackness #blackisbeautiful

SOTM

https://youtu.be/-J8EwAGteVc

#uspol #USPolitics #africandiaspora #blackness

Now that I am home again, I want to elaborate on that last post.

I grew up in the middle of fucking nowhere.
I used to say that I could count on one hand — and have fingers left over — the number of overtly racist incidents I experienced up there, but it's also where I learned that there's a critical mass factor to racism.

One or two Black families, and you're not enough of "them" to be taking their jerbs. And they make a little exception in their pea brains, because fuck knows, it's not that they're wrong about what's connate to Black people, it's just that you're somehow "not really Black."

The difference is Canadians have a sense of self-preservation enough not to say that out loud, unlike Americans, so you just walk around thinking that these are some weirdly decent people.

Nope.
Then maybe 10, 20 years later, you look around at the ones that are left in your life from that era, and you go on a blocking spree with:

"Guess what! I am not your Black friend anymore!"

And you sweep them all into the bin and then you forget they exist.

And I suspect that Brenda wasn't even around for that, having been long since binned. I speak to all of 2 people from that era, and those, very infrequently.

Which is funny because I really loved that era of my life, and it deeply influenced my love of the woods and teaching young anarchists how to forage, do bushcraft, and be self-sufficient.

But that's the place, which to me is very distinct from the people.

#Blackness #GigiThoughts

The formidable south tower of Blackness Castle, standing on the south shore of the Firth of Forth north-east of Linlithgow. In the years around 1540 it was transformed into one of strongest artillery fortifications of its age. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/blackness/blacknesscastle/index.html

#Scotland #Blackness

How does #RacialBelonging mediate the production of #PopularTerritories & thereby unsettle + rearticulate dominant understandings of #area?

👀Read by @XazaarAdjame on the collective life in movement of #Indonesian #UrbanYouth: https://doi.org/qjnw

#Blackness #Circulation

Open Humanities Press has published Tom Cohen's #book Ecocide and Inscription vol. 1: Black Ops. Petrolepathy, Escaped Slaves, Cinemacide – A Tele-mnemonics for the After-Times.

Examining works by #Faulkner, #Morrison and #Hitchcock among others, Tom Cohen traces a ‘hyper-blackness’ that exceeds racial binaries and links to the viscous materiality of #oil. He argues that this #blackness before face or figuration offers a way to rupture the ‘Anthropocene’ spell and its attendant anaesthesias. By tracking inscriptions that melt back into a prefigural domain, Cohen outlines a literary structure of #climatechange itself, one that undoes conventional notions of meaning, reference, and #human exceptionalism.

Available #openaccess and in colour print from:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/black-ops/

So sweet, my juice, my jazz

If My Blackness Turns to Fruit
E. Ethelbert Miller

#Poetry #EEthelbertMiller #Blackness #America #Jazz #Blues #Prison

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1731775/if-my-blackness-turns-to-fruit

So…I found this interview with Muhammad Ali from 1972. He’s in Ireland for a bout. A famous journalist there, Cathal O’ Shannon, gets an hour of his time for TV.

It’s stellar. Including the way Cathal listens to him so intently. Ali’s stories moved me. As did Cathal’s captivation.

This clip about Black people’s lack of trust for white people is edifying.

Here’s the whole interview:
https://vid.northbound.online/w/qL2pquYgr2aPayzg6Cjv7B

#MuhammadAli #Ali #Interview #History #Blackness #Race #SystemicRacism #Ireland

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - On the Rooftop

1950s USA in a Black neighbourhood. Book chapters alternate among the perspectives of a mother and three daughters, each with her own dreams. Family, ambition, love, change, music. Difficulties, but a pleasure to follow along as each protagonist finds her way.

#fiction #books #1950s #USA #Blackness #music #women #family #community

Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/brandon-taylor-on-the-quandary-of-black-art

"You Were Never Meant to Survive Alone" is a framework I have developed for Black queer abolitionist care rooted in refusal, kinship, and survival.

It’s not a clinical manual. It’s a map, a ritual, a refusal to leave each other behind. 🖤

#abolition #blackness #queerness #drift
https://vincentmousseau.net/en/framework/

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100 years ago, artists and writers were forging new visions of #Blackness—across America and abroad. Hear how #music, #fashion, #literature, and #art helped shape a modern #Black #identity.
This five-part series features a dynamic cast of speakers who reflect on the legacy and #cultural impact of the Harlem Renaissance.

🎨

#art_podcast #museum_podcast #culture #museum #society

#TeenVogue #Kpop #culture #Blackness #BlackMastodon

I've always been fringe re: K-pop, just watching it on free streaming and such, and marveling over Black fans' activity on the old-school Twitter/X some years ago.

But I do follow Teen Vogue for how they select & cover various topics, and this new series looks interesting.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/i-was-a-black-k-pop-fan-for-2-decades-unstanned

#forth #bridge #blackness
Forth bridges from a couple of evenings ago, taken from Blackness.