You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Mourning gives loss a creative form, restoring life to a shattered world.
Mourning could animate a new birth, but this doesn’t guarantee a future without vulnerability. Mourning might be a leap in the dark, but it is not a leap into darkness.
Alexander Hirsch, Psyche.
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How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This, by Hanif Abdurraqib.
… that is the wrong question
Traci K. Smith
Concrete steps toward divestment from policing and investment in community safety via Interrupting Criminalization
Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action is an initiative at the BCRW Social Justice Institute led by researchers Andrea J. Ritchie, Mariame Kaba, and Woods Ervin. The project aims to interrupt and end the the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense, including criminalization and incarceration of survivors of violence.
#DefundPolice is a demand to cut funding and resources from police departments and other law enforcement and invest in things that actually make our communities safer: quality, affordable, and accessible housing, universal quality health care, including community-based mental health services, income support to stay safe during the pandemic, safe living wage employment, education, and youth programming. It is rooted in a larger Invest/Divest framework articulated in the Movement for Black Lives’ Vision for Black Lives.
Related : Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Plan.
We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.
We Want Full Employment For Our People.
We Want An End To The Robbery By The Capitalists Of Our Black Community.
We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter Of Human Beings.
We Want Education For Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role In The Present-Day Society.
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We Want An Immediate End To Police Brutality And Murder Of Black People.
We Want Freedom For All Black Men Held In Federal, State, County And City Prisons And Jails.
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We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace.
With unflinching self-scrutiny, Anne Boyer exposes uncomfortable truths about our culture’s mistreatment of the individual in duress and the ways in which we are complicit in that neglect.
Anne Boyer is an American essayist and poet. Her boundary-blurring body of work includes two books of nonfiction, a poetry collection, and several chapbooks. Most recently, her book The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and art (2019) earned accolades for its formal inventiveness and searing prose. The story of Boyer’s experience with a highly aggressive form of triple-negative breast cancer, The Undying is not a traditional memoir but something altogether different and new; a fierce and funny experiment in cultural criticism and personal history, malediction and requiem.
Windham Campbell Prizes
What cancer takes away, New Yorker, April 15, 2019 Issue.
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Ugly Duckling Presse.
Mirabilary, newletter/blog.
Ten questions. In the New Inquiry.
Solvitur ambulando (It is solved by walking) – Saint Augustine.
“I wanted to walk in this impossible place, to walk on the line of my vision, or along the edge of my imagination.” from Touch, 2002, by Janine Antoni. via sophiesiem
Memory is necessary if surviving is going to be more than just a technical thing.
… Ibo proverb — “Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.”
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Related : Conversations with James Baldwin. Book.
“[Photo] of Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin in Florida, 1980. Where they met for the first time at a conversation between them organised as part of a conference hosted by the African Literature Association, in Gainesville, Florida.” via duroolowu.
Met by luck, with like destinations, We startled again at what ended in pique. Strollers out, seeing us, had no notion;