"American culture encourages you to delay feeling proud of yourself until external validation has been granted. Practice this and you get to the point where you cannot feel proud until that validation materializes."
If you think I’m failing you right now, boy am I failing me right now!
Movies and TV greatly overestimate how many people would simply follow you if you said "can I talk to you privately for a moment" as a way to disengage them from a group conversation before things get bad.
I don't know if we will win. But it's worth trying cuz we deserve better.
And I agree with Angela Y. Davis, who said, "We can never predict the outcome of our work. As Stuart Hall said, 'There are never any guarantees.' At the same time, you have to act as if it were possible to change the world."
Writers! Read! Respect your medium!
If you have friends or family who deal with depression or anxiety, you really just have to think outside of yourself. It might seem like folks went dark and don’t want to talk to you but they might just be in the mud at that moment.
Your interpretation of what you read is more precious than what any critic or scholar has said about what you read, & far more precious than any kind of summary AI can give you of written material. The work is supposed to go inside of YOU & work with what's inside of you to have a home there.
"Across 24 tracks and 101 minutes, The Fall Off is full of technical proficiency, raw lyrical skill, citation, interpolation and sampling, and it attempts nothing less than to embody a half-century of hip-hop." ~ @aydeethegreat.bsky.social
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Stanley from the Office with BLACK on his head
How your email finds me during #BlackHistoryMonth:
#BookSky, this impacts not just writers but also readers.
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
I'm not going to complain about this, but I'd be a lot happier if it were a large public university system making this announcement.
Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads UNCORRECTED PROOF NOT For SALE SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF BLACK MEDIAMAKERS PUSH AMERICA TOWARD FREEDOM SARAH J. JACKSON My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
My twin* wrote another book and it's realllllly good
Preorder today!!!!
“A longtime Elyria resident is finally set to bring the story of Elyria football phenom Ike Maxwell to life on film, after a half a decade of work and a lifetime of hearing the tales of Maxwell, his family and the city that made him.“
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I don't like the way that history is popularly narrated in this country. At all.
Non paywall link archive.is/WZNib
Hello editors, our leaders lying to our face is a big story to write multiple articles about.
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The Dean “also clarified that faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material or include it on assignments or exam questions.”
And they call this an education?
Now this hits
“No kingdom can maintain itself by force alone.”
—James Baldwin
Books on a table: William Cheng’s “Loving music til it hurts”; AD Carson’s “Being Dope”; Robin James’ “Resilience and Melancholy”; and Philip Ewell’s “On Music Theory”
This is a pretty good reading list if I do say so myself…
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@aydeethegreat.bsky.social, check this out. You're in great company.
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A typed poem titled "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #96: POEM AT DAWN" reads, "Empire is its own undoing." The author, Diane di Prima, is credited below the poem. The text appears on a plain white background.
