"[Lorna] Simpson is contemporary art's astronomer of the archives, always searching for the dark matter that 'documentary' images conceal." -- Julian Lucas via The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Reviewed Oneka LaBennett's latest book Global Guyana for sx salon. As I write in the review, "LaBennett reminds readers that we cannot tell the history of Guyana without careful attention to its women and girls." Check it out and go get the book! smallaxe.net/sxsalon/review…

Sweeping Guyana into the Global Frame | Sasha Ann Panaram "At stake in LaBennett’s brilliant contribution to Caribbean studies with Global Guyana is how we might read, listen to, and look for Guyana" smallaxe.net/sxsalon/review…

This piece, “Ghost Note,” from the Lorna Simpson: Source Notes exhibit The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues to haunt me.

This is unbelievable! #RolandGarros2025

This is why I *love* tennis. Epic! #RolandGarros2025

Alcaraz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #RolandGarros2025

“If you center Black women in your political work and cultural work, then you’re cooking with gas.” — dream hampton Ford Foundation

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"Toni Morrison loved being an editor. She fought for her writers and with them when necessary." -- Martha Southgate via The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/06/17/boo…

Caught a few incredible documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier in June. First time attending and already can’t wait for next year.

Had to grab the Canadian version of Dionne Brand’s Salvage while in town. Love the cover!

"To sustain poetry in the absence of its radical muse—left collective political action—to sustain poetry when there is no inspiration, that was my work." -- Dionne Brand via Jewish Currents jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-of…

"Amy Sherald has withdrawn her upcoming solo show from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery because she said she had been told the museum was considering removing her painting depicting a transgender Statue of Liberty..." nytimes.com/2025/07/24/art…

"Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American literature." nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

"You see me in the garden walking around just plundering around thinking of a sentence. Sometimes it takes me a week to finish a sentence just to get it right." -- Jamaica Kincaid via The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/08/05/mag…