Amir

•Africana Ph.D. student @ Cornell | sonic knowings of blackness in the works | a love letter to Nina, Jill, Truth, Badu, and Jacobs

[Amir @BSKnowing_amir]

Today, I have officially submitted my 50 paged-undergraduate thesis for DIV III. This paper explores black performance and the emotional affect when one encounters race and gender oppression in the United States.

[Amir @BSKnowing_amir]

@_Xander_Walker Thank you soooo much @_Xander_Walker 💙💙💙 all love 🥰🥰

[Amir @BSKnowing_amir]

Thank you god for another birthday 💙

[Amir @BSKnowing_amir]

@TheQuinLamar I’m guessing it’s the old lady in the polka dots in the corner 😭😭

[African Poetry Book Fund @AfricanPoetryBF]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS!

African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant

Deadline: June 16, 2023

Award Amount: $15,000

Visit the APBF Submittable Page for full information

https://t.co/7LkNtlxPhn

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Wake up, the Charlie Wilson NPR Tiny Desk is out! https://t.co/o3KouVN4nn

[papa 🐻 @leoxvieiraa]

Happy June 1st….Be who you are

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

#TheWeeklyRead is "Tina Turner's Turn to Rock" from Maureen Mahon's 2020 book "Black Diamond Queens." Read it for free until June 30, 2023. #TinaTurner
https://t.co/ISJZmHaWO1

[Amir @BSKnowing_amir]

I can’t wait to attend virtually to hear these incredible scholars !!✨✨

[La Marr Jurelle Bruce - AFROMANTIC.BSKY.SOCIAL @Afromanticist]

"Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities..."
—Sylvia Wynter

(Image via the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

[✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers @HurstonWright]

Happy Birthday, Lorraine Hansberry!

[DARK LAB @LaboratoryDark]

Stars aligned on this day 🌟
May 11: celebrating the birthdays 🎂 of two Black philosophers from the Caribbean #SylviaWynter and #KamauBrathwaite! Part of the constellation of thinkers that inspires us at Dark Lab. 🧪🧪

[La Marr Jurelle Bruce - AFROMANTIC.BSKY.SOCIAL @Afromanticist]

TOMORROW

The Swiftly Fading Residue of Soon-Forgotten Dreams: On Love & Madness

"In love & madness, words fail—but I keep trying. In this talk, I invite you to witness me try out loud."

5/11/23, 5–7pm
Schmitt Ctr, DePaul U
2320 N Kenmore Ave
Chicago, IL https://t.co/eSqd8jyJna

[hurstonian. @DrAhmadGH]

My journal article “'A Very Queer Case': Clementine Barnabet and the Erotics of a Sensationalized Voodoo Religion" was just published in *Nova Religio* in a special issue on Vodou and Voodoo. Here's the link for open access for the next 30 days.
https://t.co/zfvL4kB9el

[✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers @HurstonWright]

Who else is excited about this forthcoming book?

[Philip Leventhal @PhilipLeventhal]

Coming this Fall! The much-anticipated, THE SISTERHOOD: HOW A NETWORK OF BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE, by Courtney Thorsson (@c_thorsson). https://t.co/vktnaQsDAB @ColumbiaUP

[Carl Wilson @carlzoilus]

Tomorrow! (May 8) 5 pm ET in the Popular Music Books series, a rich conversation w/ Christine Capetola and Lauren McLeod Cramer on works in progress on "sonic femmeness" in 80s/2010s Black pop and "Black spatiality" in hip-hop. Info on how to join us here: https://t.co/eRzrzYomEx