Absolute cinema from গণভবন😭❤️🇧🇩

Everyday anti-fascist organising this, anti-racist collective that. Where are the MANDEM?

Asante Spoons for weighing gold dust

The Bay has been good to me.

"Poets, scholars, archivists & librarians, teenagers & journalists – in the span of the last nine months, have been our exhausted lodestars, offering correctives to a media engine that no longer bothers accounting for them.." Mezna Qato for The New Statesman ow.ly/QKcq50SWwVn

I don’t do anniversaries but it’s been a summer since Bad Diaspora Poems was released into the world. Gratitude to everyone who sent me heartfelt notes, thoughts, annotations, impassioned emails, snapshots. Keep them coming.

I’d say they don’t make actresses like Gena Rowlands anymore, except there weren’t any like her before her either.

What Is Poetry to You? (Cecilia Vicuña, 1980)

how do you turn the pattern recognition off, i’ve realized enough

Our Lady who brings down walls. seperation wall in Bethlehem, Palestine

Rahsaan Rolan Kirk

I’m thrilled to share my editorial for Wasafiri’s 40th anniversary issue. This milestone issue is a total treat – featuring the best established and emerging creative and critical voices on futurisms – and well worth preordering in print. Here’s why: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

“When something is termed intolerable, actions must follow.” —John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (1984)

I think about these lines so regularly it hurts.

I’m writing today about this Vlisco textile print Togolese women merchants popularized by naming “Suklikpè” or sugar cubes. Togolese legend has it that when this print came into fashion it became so popular that it caused the price of sugar to go up! #economiesoftaste

A good Charles Simic essay stays with you, especially in these times. On his refusal of the hatreds that bind together community: “Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

So thrilled about this! 💥💫💫💫💥🎉🎊🦋☄️💗🙏🏽

Brief update: wrapping up a few projects means I’ll be spending autumn back in NYC. Friends, collaborators, co-conspirators alike. Hit me up for whatever’s worthwhile ✨