I’m not effete enough.
I must do something about that.
Pink matters
AG2025_DSF6669a or des regards noirs
Paris Noir, podcast.
Parisian syncretism – Art critic and curator Franck Hermann Ekra discusses the multiple influences of Cote d’Ivoire artist Ouattara Watts and his painting Divination, exhibited here.
A new Black Paris map – Haitian photographer Henry Roy presents the context of Regards noirs (Black Looks), a series of photographs taken in 1996.
Visite de l’exposition Paris noir avec Alicia Knock et Éva Barois de Caevel. 15min 13s. Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Haiti Inter documents performance on the last day of the show.
AG2025_DSF6661a or shaped in relation
meaning could only be shaped in relation
“Lord, increase my bewilderment.”
(KA)
laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people
“If anything, it is a very effective form of antifascist economic policy. We are at a moment where the crisis of economic security, of affordability, that comes with basic questions of dignity and identity are being used by the far right in ways that fuel the return of fascist tendencies. I think that having an agenda that is laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is what we need, and that is basically where the Democrats fell flat last year. At the federal level and the global level, we are dealing with the consequences of that lack of vision right now.”
Isabella M. Weber, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on Zohran Mamdani electorial proposals. (New Yorker)
AG2025_DSF6194b or did we falter
It was summer when I found you
In the meadow long ago,
And the golden vetch was growing
By the shore.
Did we falter when love took us
With a gust of great desire?
Does the barely bid the wind wait
In his course?
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US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans. (The Guardian)