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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · 2h

Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/

Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques

Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 4h

Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together.

Join us.

In person or online.

October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.

events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 9h

Spread the word! #SaveUT!! UT Austin admin are working to eliminate vital departments and censor what profs can teach. If you haven’t yet written to UT Austin admin, please do do do. The more voices of protest and support the better. An attack on one is an attack on all!

UT AUSTIN WANTS TO EIMINATE ITS BLACK STUDIES, LA LENO STUDIES, & GENDER STUD
STUDIES
DEPARTMENTS
Tell them you non t stand for it!
President Jim Davis: president@utexas.edu
Provost William Inboden: provost@utexas.edu
Interim Liberal Arts Dean David Sosa:
david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
@UTAustin
@UTAustinCOLA
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 10h

In light of the criticism of Columbus some are now laundering the reputation of Las Casas. Did they stop reading before he made his statements about Africans?

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 1d

If able, please consider donating to help care for baby Asiah: fundly.com/missmajor

Please at least share this post if unable to contribute! 🫂

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day! The World After Rain. Canisia Lubrin.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CODE NOIR
THE
WORLD
AFTER
RAIN
CANISIA LUBRIN

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 1d

These bewildering times have me feeling like I am in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Twin Peaks that just will not end.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo. RIP.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 1d

No more bombs. More cancer research.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major has passed. A life well lived. We must celebrate her and the gifts she bequeathed us all. RIP Miss Major.

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Lester K Spence @lkspence.bsky.social · 2d

What's mandate of Black Studies during this moment. What's our responsibility? Join us as we host the first of a series of public conversations in Baltimore, at the Baltimore Unity Hall. We'll be in dialogue with Paul Coates and Olakekan Kamau-Nataki. Next Wednesday from 6-8pm.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 2d

How a diaspora is made, and remade, and remade and made again. (Ultimately it is only a diaspora consciousness that can save this planet).

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 2d

Visualizing contemporary coloniality.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 2d

At some point the same story gets told for different groups across the Black/African diaspora. It is a formula. Isn’t it?

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

‘A palette unlike anything in the west’: Ben Okri, Yinka Shonibare and more on how Nigerian art revived Britain’s cultural landscape

To mark a new exhibition at Tate Modern, author Ben Okri and other leading British-Nigerian cultural figures trace the impact of their heritage on their work, and consider its growing influence on the...

www.theguardian.com

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 4d

I watched all day the surprises, revelations & reminders (the latter from those who have been paying attention) about the peace prize winner & I was so sad. It really betrayed who has really been paying attention to what is really going on across the Americas & obviously in Venezuela post-Chavez.

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