“My advice would be that queer spaces can be anywhere. They can be in your backyard. They can be on your bookshelf. They can be wherever you are. Even somewhere as simple as in a letter to a penpal. Queer spaces don’t have to be in a club or bar.”
—H. Melt, Trans Issue 2015, The Offing
excited to buy a print copy of the new yorker for the first time, maybe EVER
You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration
”If you were black and you had the Internet in the ‘90s and ‘00s, you were on Black Planet.” -- from my entry for Websafe 2K16 project, a project exploring our memories of the pre-broadband Internet and related technologies.
Call Back Your Magic, 2015
“I call my works experiments because I don’t see them as conclusive or original. I am acutely aware that whatever I make is in constant dialogue with what has been made before, and see my practice as a continuation of variables that are in persistent rotation to produce unending results. I experiment so that I may allow myself the freedom to change my mind, to be pushed into new ways of thinking, making, and naming. I am interested in using the future as a site of experimentation, as well as a space to gain freedom and visibility around the conversations of race, gender, sexuality, and class. I see this making a kind of sympathetic magic. Not because it calls into being that which is rendered, but because it calls into question that which has already been, and dreams up that which could be.”
Iconic.
HAPPY BHM YAWL
In this phone-a-friend edition, Amina calls up core bestie and bruja Jenna Wortham to discuss movies to cry to on airplanes, potions, and Sex and the City. Not to mention key mixtapes, whether JK Rowling is woke, and post-Presidency life for the Obamas. Plus, catfishing confessions.
Read/Watch/Listen:
bloop is the black goop Sleeping with Other People Diary of a Teenage Girl Black Futures: Jenna’s collaboration with Kimberly Drew aka @museummammy Michelle: young Barack ‘was a bum’ Classic Future Jenna’s shoutouts: shilajit resin, younger, kumquats, A$AP Ferg mixtape, dvsn, Jenkins and Jonez podcast, asos vs. prime, teen vogue
Music list:
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend Fredericks - Corner boooooooty - Shorts Song I Dance Not - Where the Land Meets the Sea
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THE ANTHEM
”To be successful, there must be coordination, the kind that choreographers and movement leaders do, the kind that black women organizers do in neighborhoods and organizations.” -- We Slay, Part 1
Join Well-Read Black Girl’s debut reading featuring an extraordinary list of poets, fiction writers, and essayists. We’re celebrating Black History Month and the brilliant narratives of Black women. RSVP on Facebook
Featuring:
Thursday, Feb. 25th 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Housing Works Bookstore 126 Crosby St New York, NY 10012
COME HANG OUT
CAT IS SO GOOD PRAISE AND PROSPER CHILE
