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Bouquet Now

"In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy." | From Robin D.G. Kelley via Boston Review / "In gathering to give Farah her flowers now, we were not commemorating the end of a career, but to reimagining

God In the Image of AfroLatinx

God In the Image of AfroLatinx

Written by Guesnerth Josué Perea, via Sojourners. In Octavia E. Butler’s short story "The Book of Martha," each time the title character interacts with God, God progressively changes shape, gender, and race, moving from a God represented by a white man to a Black woman who resembled

A Show at the Yale Gallery Celebrates Yoruba Artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè

A Show at the Yale Gallery Celebrates Yoruba Artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè

From the New York Times: "Organized by James Green, associate curator of African art at the Yale Gallery, the exhibition places us deep in the context of Bamigboye’s social culture. We see sculptures by near-contemporary Yoruba carvers like Dadaolomo, Akiyode of Abeokuta, and Areo-ogun-yan-na, whom he regarded as

Scripting Blackness

Scripting Blackness

Event: October 7, 2022 | Looking forward to discussing /Scripts of Blackness/ at the Yale Renaissance Colloquium this Friday 12.30pm EST! The talk will focus on Blackspeak (sonic impersonation). Registration link and discount code in the poster below. 🖤 pic.twitter.com/7cK7e8ksQ3 — Noémie Ndiaye (@NdiayeNoemie) October 3, 2022 Welcome! You

The Woman King Syllabus

The Woman King Syllabus

You've seen the movie. Now Alex Gil takes us a little deeper. | The Woman King SyllabusThe Woman King Syllabus is an open educational resource meant to aid the study of the historical period and themes explored in the movie The Woman King.Ana Lucia AraujoAna Lucia Araujo Alex

Black Environmentalisms Symposium

Black Environmentalisms Symposium

It's our world. And yours, too. | Event: Yale University - October 13-14, 2022 Black Environmentalisms Symposium beginning Oct 13 @yale Scholars, writers, artists, and practitioners grappling with Black environmental precarity across the diaspora. Organized by @profiheka & Jonathan Howard #envhum #humanities https://t.co/AGoAiAhXmZ pic.twitter.com/