research post 2025-10-10
“...personally, I find utopias ridiculous.” Butler
Reads
Alexis P. Gumbs, M/Other Ourselves: A Black Queer Feminist Genealogy for Radical Mothering, ed. China Martens et al. (PM Press, 2016)
Sylviane Diouf, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons (New York University Press, 2016)
Ntozake Shange, Nappy Edges, with Internet Archive (New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1978), http://archive.org/details/nappyedges00shan
Consuela Francis, Conversations with Octavia Butler (University Press of Mississippi, 2013),
Kali Gross, Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times (Seal Press, 2024),
Vanessa K. Valdés, “‘ There Is No Incongruence Here’: Hispanic Notes in the Works of Ntozake Shange,” CLA Journal 53, no. 2 (2009): 131–44
“‘Walkin on the Edges of the Galaxy’: Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African Diaspora,” The Scholar & Feminist Online, May 24, 2015, https://sfonline.barnard.edu/walkin-on-the-edges-of-the-galaxy-queer-choreopoetic-thought-in-the-african-diaspora/
Cassia Roth and Robson Pedrosa Costa, “‘Maria Simoa, Who Birthed Twenty-Four Children’: Slavery, Motherhood, and Freedom on the Benedictine Estates, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1866–1871,” Hispanic American Historical Review 103, no. 1 (2023): 65–99, https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10216469.
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Projects
Congo Square Connection by Freddi Evans: https://congosquareconnection.org/
Vibes & Affirmations
We shall aspire to be as cunty as the women on the mothership
We shall aspire to be as smooth as our kinfolk steppin in Chicago
We shall speak the truth
We shall be tender
We shall stan
We shall stay Black
We shall bow down
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