Critical Minded

A grantmaking and learning initiative that supports cultural critics of color in the United States

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

We are proud to welcome Inaugural Executive Director of Critical Minded @rshabazz!! 👏👏🏽👏🏿

“I’m thrilled to join the Critical Minded team to support critics of color at a time when their voices are so needed."

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

THIS Saturday at #PubCon23, poets @goldenthem, Ghinwa Jawhari, & Devyn Mañibo discuss what poetry can do that other forms cannot and the possibilities of allowing their narratives to exist in the poetic form.💘

See you at @peoplesforumnyc! 🌟 tickets: https://t.co/enjJXHg1io

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

This summer, we're gathering 💫IN-PERSON💫 for our annual publishing conference, PAGE TURNER, on Aug. 19, @peoplesforumnyc. Join us for a day of conversation & learning that centers the work of writers of color.

💖 TICKETS + PANELS + LINEUP: https://t.co/enjJXHg1io

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

This week is the BlackStar Film Festival! Taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this five-day film festival is an annual celebration of Black, Brown, and Indigenous storytelling. Learn more below and at https://t.co/KSCds7sXUx
Graphics credit/repost: @BlackStarFest

[Triple Canopy @Triple_Canopy]

We've just announced the full schedule for the 2023 Triple Canopy Symposium, featuring @Harmony_Holiday, @huahsu, @lrain0000, @spikeeinbinder, @illustriouspear, @SophiaRoosth, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Alex Tatarsky, and more. https://t.co/JZPsFnfRSr

[Triple Canopy @Triple_Canopy]

Announcing the lineup for the 2023 Triple Canopy Symposium! Featuring @Harmony_Holiday, @stephdink, @huahsu, @SophiaRoosth, @tartar_bizbiz, @lrain0000, and more. Hosted by @poetry__project, presented with @Critic_Minded, and broadcast by @montez_radio. https://t.co/UfQGaYDxSd

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

We’re excited to announce that senior editor Lorne Manly will lead our new Cultural Criticism effort in partnership with @critic_minded https://t.co/outoUMxirY

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

The New York Times, @Critic_Minded launch program to develop and publish cultural critics from diverse backgrounds. https://t.co/mCyj3S9wCB

[Michael Paulson @MichaelPaulson]

.@nytimes today announced that @Critic_Minded will fund a new program to seek out, develop and publish cultural critics from underrepresented backgrounds. https://t.co/3oPFjHPpof

[Nathan Cummings Foundation @NCFImpact]

“Robust cultural criticism is essential to ignite informed discourse.”

Learn how @nytimes + @Critic_Minded collaborate to address the lack of representation among critics of color in media outlets in this new partnership. https://t.co/PDtdOsUe00

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

Check out "Critical Minded, with Rashid Shabazz and Elizabeth Méndez Berry" https://t.co/OTpxJWXVsl @Eventbrite

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

Our thoughts and condolences again go out to her family and all those in our community who have been touched by this loss.

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

For many of us bell hooks has been and remains the guidepost on our journey to unearthing the ways cultural criticism can help us be our better selves by creating a just and equitable world that unapologetically centers the experiences of black women.

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

hooks also taught us how to love through her many writings on the subject. The Critical Minded team hopes that in the great void and space that hooks’ transition leaves that it will be now filled with love as she would have hoped.

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

Comics and comic aficionados help us see the larger cultural story that comics books tell...evoking a time, place and feeling. https://t.co/K7Lqm4B5in

[Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 @crystalhanak]

When writing, I want to be true to the world I’m inhabiting, down to the roots. While researching the native plants of Korea for my novel, I found a doc that affirmed so much of what I was working on. I wrote about that discovery over at @CatapultStory 🌿

https://t.co/GPoybGbS9y

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

Bookmarking this!
https://t.co/imNd1ze6xb

[Robert Daniels @812filmreviews]

If you’re going to read a review of THE POWER OF THE DOG, read Marya’s.

It’s singular and beautifully written

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

Congratulations to the five Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowships for Curators! https://t.co/LOrzeo7cWr

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

In the coming weeks and months we know that the power and breadth of Greg Tate’s cultural contributions will continue to reverberate. But in this moment we wanted to celebrate how much he has meant to this community.

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

As a friend and mentor to many in the Critical Minded community, it goes without saying that our condolences and love are with Greg Tate’s family and all whose lives he influenced or touched.

[Critical Minded @Critic_Minded]

“What made Tate’s criticism special was his ability to theorize outward from his encounters with genius and his brushes with banality—to telescope between moments of artistic inspiration and the giant structures within which those moments were produced."