*state violence*
doesn't give a shit
that you're 'nonviolent'
so it may be time
to let go of
that liberal defense

Police preparing pepper spray and rubber bullets

Annou sonjé/In Memory of Maryse Condé on April 17, 4:00 pm in Minor Hall 110. Please join us for this Convo In Caribbean Studies event celebrating Condé’s life & work. Bring one of her works, read a paragraph that has touched you, and share your personal connection to her work

There's no such thing as post-colonial.

And congratulations to Dr. Chrystel Olukoi Chrystel for successfully defending their dissertation yesterday. Oyè á m'ọ́rí o!

Going to sleep while thinking about Chrystel’s dissertation defense today ! So much to process concerning the African Power Elite and blackness.

There are very few people who can shift their field of studies and I’m pretty sure you’re one of them !

Congratulations again 🎉💯🖤

for Hammer & Hope my essay “VISIONS OF LIBERATION IN HAITIAN CINEMA”

tracing the memory of the 1804 revolution through to the Duvalier regimes on film, as an ongoing struggle for cultural sovereignty & an unfinished rebellion

hammerandhope.org/article/haitia…

artwork by mark harris

i wrote for Hammer & Hope about zionism in u.s. racial politics: how it anchors jewishness in whiteness, disciplines black (and other poc) radicals, and unites liberals with the right on the glide path to fascism.

hammerandhope.org/article/boomer…

Thursday 3/21 at 3pm Hammer Theatre | San Jose

PLAYING IN THE DARK: WATERY EXPERIMENTS

Curated by Chrystel Oloukoï (@_Onikoyi) for Canyon Cinema Discovered, Playing in the Dark engages the various ways in which blackness haunts the sea and is haunted by the sea.

🎟️ events.sjsu.edu/event/water_an…

Thank you to my former amazing Africana Studies at Smith student: Rosie Poku who is currently a PhD student in Africana Studies at Penn for the kind/generous invitation to be in community with the dope brilliance of J.T. Roane and my Woodson Institute fam:Chrystel #BlackQueerPlacemaking #BlackQueerDiasporas

we should absolutely cancel each other over the purity test of genocide

Thandi Loewenson, Celeste Winston, Andrea Roberts

Zandria Robinson, Marcus Anthony Hunter, Jordana Matlon, Malini Raganathan, Gloria Figueiredo, Keisha-Khan Perry, Mpho Matsipa, Véronique Clette

More than ever, we need black urbanism to reconceptualize the entire field—JT Roane, Jamal Wright, Asha Best, Alana Osbourne, Victoria Ogoegbunam-Okoye, Akira Drake Rodriguez, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Brandi Summers, Äicha Diallo, Chrystel Oloukoi, Fania Noel, Mary Pattillo,

dear black people everywhere, when you carry the torch for white supremacy, don't be shocked when it burns you too.

On 2 December, Sufyan Tayeh, President of the Islamic University of Gaza, was assassinated by Israel (along with his whole family). On Sunday the 31st, Said Al-Zibdah, President of Gaza's University College of Applied Sciences, was assassinated by Israel (with his family too).

This entire thread is the best analysis of this situation I’ve read so far. The price of the ticket for the “firsts,” the self proclaimed “talented tenth,” is almost invariably, stepping (gleefully often) into the role of the overseer.

meanwhile, professors and uni admin in gaza are being murdered and their schools destroyed. i need us all to be very very serious for a moment please