research post 2026-02-21
Eclipse survival plan
A day late, but I wanted to get these out. From my waterlogged and deep in the weeds brain to yours. May the creating be fruitful this weekend for us all.
Reads
LifexCode Admin, “Diving Deeper: Slavery in Motion Artists in Conversation,” Substack newsletter, LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure, March 10, 2025,
“Creative Conversations With ‘After the Storm’ at Bajo El Sol Gallery,” St. Thomas Source, January 6, 2025, https://stthomassource.com/content/2025/01/06/creative-conversations-with-after-the-storm-at-bajo-el-sol-gallery/.
Zoe Keziah Mendelson, “It Is Urgent and Imperative That We All Permanently Exit Instagram,” Substack newsletter, How to Have Fun in the Apocalypse, January 19, 2026,
Aida Mariam Davis, Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom--Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity (North Atlantic Books, 2024).
Margena A. Christian, “The Female Songwriter Who Saved Stevie Wonder’s Career,” History, National Geographic, February 10, 2026, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/sylvia-moy.
Kendra T. Field, “The Privilege of Family History,” The American Historical Review 127, no. 2 (2022): 600–633, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac151
Justin Gardner, “Finding Sadie | American Printing House,” American Printing House for the Blind Blog, February 1, 2023, https://www.aph.org/blog/finding-sadie/.
Samuel Momodu, “Igbo Landing Mass Suicide (1803),” BlackPast.Org, October 25, 2016, https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/igbo-landing-mass-suicide-1803/.
D. B. Chambers, “Rejoinder - The Significance of Igbo in the Bight of Biafra Slave-Trade: A Rejoinder to Northrup’s ‘Myth Igbo,’” Slavery & Abolition 23, no. 1 (2002): 101–20, https://doi.org/10.1080/714005225.
Documents
“Versatile Ladies of Style,” Cheryl Ann Roberts, accessed February 20, 2026, https://hnoc.org/club-narratives/versatile-ladies-of-style.
Watch
Daniel José Older, How to Write a Synopsis : Daniel José Older, 2015, 06:03,
Daniel is currently offering developmental editing support—go get this!!
Shared this in Stitch Open My Eyes, but had to post this twice — Library of Congress, McIntosh County Shouters: Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout from Georgia, 2011, 57:07,
Projects
Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid & Pleasure Club Narratives https://hnoc.org/club-narratives
Mapping the Black Digital Humanities https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/mappingbdph/glossary/
Affirmations and Beatitudes
Elissa Blount Moorhead with liquid blackness
Small Axe statement on the Cuba blockhade
My writing group mate Dr. Ashanté Reese is giving a talk!! Go—
DuBois anti-imperialism from BLKNWS
VOICES: Recollections of Black History of Anniston & Calhoun County (Alabama Humanities Alliance)
