research post 2025-10-24
sacred and profane and somewhat pixelated
Pondering the way histories come together, split apart, and give birth to new narratives, new myths, new rituals. And looking for the real.
As Zora would say, “margarine Negroes” vs. butter folks.
Reads
Jean Casimir, The Haitians: A Decolonial History, with Laurent Dubois, Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução (The University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
Moya Bailey and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” Ms. Magazine, 2010.
Devin Leigh, “A Coromantee from Dahomey? On the Meaning of ‘Dorme’ in Jamaica and the West African Origins of Apongo, an Enslaved Rebel Leader,” Slavery & Abolition 0, no. 0 (n.d.): 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2025.2553319.
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation Translated by Betsy Wing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Xavier Nicholas, “Paul and Alice,” Callaloo 38, no. 3 (2015): 440–80.
Kim Vaz-Deville, ed., Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans (University Press of Mississippi, 2018).
Kim Marie Vaz, The “baby Dolls” Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013).
“Becoming a Historian: Professor Stephanie Camp | Department of History | University of Washington,” accessed October 23, 2025, https://history.washington.edu/news/2013/10/28/becoming-historian-professor-stephanie-camp.
Everson, Ashley. Origins of Black Feminist Thought in the Americas: An Interview with Sophia Monegro - AAIHS. Activism. October 20, 2025. https://www.aaihs.org/origins-of-black-feminist-thought-in-the-americas-an-interview-with-sophia-monegro/.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Henry Louis Gates Jr, and Genevieve West. You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays. Amistad, 2023.
Hurston, Zora Neale, Deborah G. Plant, and Alice Walker. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Amistad, 2018.
Kaplan, Carla. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. Anchor, 2007.
“Large Language Muddle | The Editors.” The Intellectual Situation. N+1, September 10, 2025. https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/.
Parham, Marisa. “This Morning in Blackness: Deep Nostalgia Edition.” Medium, April 24, 2021. https://bytes.salt.codes/this-morning-in-blackness-deep-nostalgia-edition-cc117ed844af.
Toro, Ariana K. Costales Del. Uncovering the Digital in the Caribbean. Michigan State University Libraries, December 15, 2022. https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/makingsensedh/chapter/uncovering-the-digital-in-the-caribbean/.
Weems, Renita J. “Arguing with God Is Holy.” Substack newsletter. Renita J. Weems’ Substack, August 15, 2025.
Projects
We Here: https://www.wehere.space/
Archivo negro’s Revista étnica colección: https://www.archivonegro.org/coleccion/revista-etnica
Watch
Revista étnica, dir. Behind The Scenes - Shooting 5ta Edición - Afrofutura. 2023. 01:35.
Affirmations and Beatitudes
We will call out to them
We will pick up the phone and CONNECT
We will make our demands
We will bloom
We will be reverent
We will muse
We will make art and kinship
