research post 2025 June 04
Almost summer....
Calm before the storm. Enjoy…..
Projects
Travesty Generator, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, https://verse.press/playlist/travesty-generator-1975099943243226060
Forever Gwen Brooks, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,
https://www.forevergwenbrooks.com/
Reads
Open Data Institute, “Data Trusts in 2020,” March 17, 2020, https://theodi.org/news-and-events/blog/data-trusts-in-2020/
Gitan Djeli, “Kreoling Sisters: (Un)Intimate Relationships, Child Marriages and Women Spirits,” Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies 1, no. 1 (2021): 114–24
Ángela Maríaz Dávila-Malavé, Fierce and Tender Animal: Animal Fiero y Tierno, trans. Roque Raquel Salas-Rivera (New York, NY: Independently published, 2024)
John Hausdoerffer et al., eds., What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Lucille Clifton and Tracy K. Smith, Generations: A Memoir (New York: NYRB Classics, 2021)
Camille T. Dungy, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Aida Mariam Davis and Angela Y. Davis, Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity (New York: North Atlantic Books, 2024)
Clint Smith, Above Ground (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023)
Deepa Iyer, Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection (Boston: Skinner House Books, 2024)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2017).
“Episode 13: Data as Protest: Data for Black Lives with Yeshi Milner,” Radical AI Podcast, accessed June 1, 2025, https://www.radicalai.org/e13-yeshi-milner.
Angela T. Tate, “Africans Maketh the (Wo)Man: Black Materiality & Material Culture in the Creation of the Modern World,” Curio: A Newsletter | Angela T. Tate | Substack (blog), May 5, 2025,
Toyin Falola and Abimbola Adelakun, Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, ed. Eugen Bacon (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).
Kendra R. Parker, Understanding Octavia E. Butler (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2025).
Victoria Brun, “Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy,” Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2025, https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/brun_04_25/.
Kyle Mays, “A Provocation of The Modes of Black Indigeneity: Culture, Language, Possibilities,” Ethnic Studies Review 44, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 41–50, https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.2.41.
Jen Liu, “From Sugarcane to Data Centers: Building Solidarities Across Infrastructures,” Data & Society (blog), April 21, 2025, https://datasociety.net/points/from-sugarcane-to-data-centers-building-solidarities-across-infrastructures.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Oxford: James Currey Ltd / Heinemann, 2011)
Gwendolyn Brooks, Riot (Broadside Press, 1968).
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, “Our Cruel Crude Techne?,” In the Moment (blog), May 13, 2025, https://critinq.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/our-cruel-crude-techne/.
“Transformative Research Toolkit | Othering & Belonging Institute,” accessed June 1, 2025, https://belonging.berkeley.edu/transformative-research-toolkit.
Molly Reid Cleaver, “From the French Quarter to the Vatican: The Creole Heritage of Pope Leo XIV,” accessed June 4, 2025, https://hnoc.org/publishing/first-draft/from-the-french-quarter-to-the-vatican.
Toolkit for Cooperative, Collaborative, Collective Cultural Work : https://www.presspress.info/networks/toolkit-for-cooperative-collective-collaborative-cultural-work
Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cybory, “A People’s Guide To Tech,” accessed June 4, 2025, https://alliedmedia.org/resources/peoples-guide-to-ai.
Listen
Cases Rebelles, “Épisode n°107 | Stéphane Martelly, à partir d’Haïti et de la poésie,” CASES REBELLES (blog), January 9, 2024, https://www.cases-rebelles.org/episode-n107/.
