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“I have my style of data collection, collect the dog’s bark, the wind whispering, and collect nonverbal expressions.” - Ella in Louisiana by Edna Brodber
Special heart emojis to emerson zora hamsa and Kai Minosh Pyle today!
Loved the conversation today and the chance to unfurl on so many topics. I appreciate these Office Hours so much!! From Prince to 90s Black girl dramatics (shout out to Flava! IYKYK) to this week in politics to nuances of enslaved peoples' political knowledge to keeping it very real about African diaspora kinship to the book of the week (Edna Brodber’s Louisiana), we went wide and wild and somehow still found our way back home. That’s a true kitchen table conversation.
See below for topics covered. An additional video where I brainstorm how we can bring Myriam Chancy, Jenny Sharpe, and Brodber into conversation together is under the fold. And a bonus raw, unedited and uncaptioned clip posted on my Substack Notes as well.
Topics covered:
These icons
TENET a treatise about history (i.e. history as science fiction). Also how objectively fine Denzel’s son is.
This song and the Prince Hits/B-Sides album
This panel
This master drummer
This reflection on airline travel and how we can and should be kind as practice for a general strike
This exhibition by Dawoud Bey at the Orlando Museum of Art https://omart.org/exhibitions/dawoud-bey/
Evergreen Plantation -
https://www.evergreenplantation.org/
Jenny Sharpe, Ghosts Of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives, First edition (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2002).
Myriam J. A. Chancy, Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora, 1st edition (University of Illinois Press, 2020).
See you next week….
Video office hours excerpt for paid subscribers below. Office Hours and post-live videos are only for paid subscribers, something like a limited preview, just for y’all, of something wild and raw that I am still trying out. I am grateful for your support, patience, and generosity in these times of cruelty and hyper critique. Let’s keep having fun with this together.
