La Marr Jurelle Bruce - AFROMANTIC.BSKY.SOCIAL

troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromantic, @yale phd, black studies prof @uofmaryland. trying to go mad without losing my mind. ✊🏾🌈

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

I wrote a book for you. I want you to hold it, read it, teach it, feel it, keep it, and pass it on. It's 7 chapters, 100,000 words, 300 some-odd pages, incalculable work + love, and a mighty portion of madness. It's called HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND. Coming this fall.

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

but also: LOVE is what love looks like in public.

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

@RuhiSleep @PenguinIndia thank you for showing my work so much love!

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

@NotSoAveragJoe Two books immediately come to mind:

The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz

Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

as expected, the court has inverted the 14th. an amendment written explicitly to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy becomes in conservative hands an amendment that says it’s illegal to try to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy

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

My beloved friend and brother, Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zoe, is directing a breathtaking production of THE BLUEST EYE (adapted by Lydia Diamond from the novel by Toni Morrison) at Anacostia Playhouse in DC. The play runs through June 25th. For tickets, visit: https://t.co/lxvNvP1NNl

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

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
—Ida B. Wells

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

Photo Credit: Bob Gruen, 1970

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

"it goes on, like a river flows
and it gets bigger, baby,
and heaven knows
and it gets sweeter, baby,
as it grows."

[2026 NBA CHAMPION 🧡💙 @bannedyoangel]

How stinkin cute are they 🥺

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

https://t.co/Q8dgFivuEI

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"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
—Eartha Kitt

Photograph (c) Susanne Schapowalow, 1950

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

the zesty pirate mustache is back—for a limited time only.

[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)

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

Last week, I was honored and humbled to deliver the keynote at the @williamandmary Black Alumni Association's Black Graduate Dinner.

The title of my remarks: "The Fun Starts Now."

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

My soul says yes.

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

The Color Purple (2023) trailer is here.

https://t.co/E5xKYEY3Ub

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The Swiftly Fading Residue of Soon-Forgotten Dreams arrives in about an hour. To join on Zoom, visit https://t.co/dWAelCrVvs

[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

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

Tomorrow.

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

On May 11, check out an in-person talk entitled "The Swiftly Fading Residue of Soon-Forgotten Dreams" given by @Afromanticist, author of "How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind," at @DePaulU

[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