Later than even I expected to office hours today, but the trade off was a great conversation with an amazing mentee.
The trade off for y’all is the video today is available in full below. Enjoy me singing Brandy/Monica and going off about the state of generosity in the academy before the weekly reading—Jenny Sharpe’s Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss (2020)—puts me in a trance state not unlike the one Ella experienced as she spoke to the dead through her recording device in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana (1994).
This week has a bit of sparkle on it and we know why. Peace to the organizers, peace to the organizers, peace to the organizers!!
See you next week!!
The video that accompanies the audio above (and more) is below the fold. 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.
Topics covered during Office Hours:
This song
This piece
Diaspora Solidarities Lab’s Community Knowledge Lab - dslprojects.org
Davarian L. Baldwin, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (PublicAffairs, 2021).
Heather Cox Richardson
This AstroBestie making me cry
Jenny Sharpe, Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss (Northwestern University Press, 2020).
Erna Brodber, Louisiana (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2022).
Marisa Parham, .“.Break .Dance,” Sx Archipelagos, no. 2 (July 2019), https://doi.org/10.7916/archipelagos-xn3y-vj19.
María Lugones, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003).
Yomaira Figueroa, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literatures (Northwestern University Press, 2020).
