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“nothing is ever escaped” – james baldwin

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can’t even be mad fr

[x of x @escapebound]

nothing like being reminded that you own nothing

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

@escapebound can the slave break the firewall?

[x of x @escapebound]

@jatella wish i could do otherwise lol. would be able to write a lot faster.

[x of x @escapebound]

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

(i have not shared because even i do not have online access to the issue yet lol. whoever happens to, please do dm me so i can disseminate!)

[jatella @jatella]

the hottest pub on the block right now is coming from @escapebound

this essay, developed over the past year or two, is solely responsible for every time heretofore you see me say “irony”, which it unequivocally establishes as a keyterm of thinking black/ness.

[jatella @jatella]

if you can get it from behind a paywall we’d share an unpayable debt.

https://t.co/eRWAjZzZUD

[jatella @jatella]

the hottest pub on the block right now is coming from @escapebound

this essay, developed over the past year or two, is solely responsible for every time heretofore you see me say “irony”, which it unequivocally establishes as a keyterm of thinking black/ness.

[x of x @escapebound]

(and like… it takes precious time to get in that groove again. so that every other day i’m just thrown all the way off and have to re-find it.)

[x of x @escapebound]

(i like teaching, don’t get me wrong, but it’s really annoying that just when i get in a writing groove i have to stop and prepare for class.)

[jatella @jatella]

how about this: let’s ask Umar about black transness. let’s ask Nick Cannon about patriarchy.

what’s equipping these men in this conversation is not some black feminist investment! it’s their intellectualized interest in an intraracial traffic in women. let’s be fuckn fr.

[x of x @escapebound]

LA rappers—outside of Kendrick—have been doing very interesting things flow and inflection-wise for a while now. y’all just haven’t been listening

[x of x @escapebound]

literally everyone is wrong.

she’s emulating icecoldbishop and probably a few other semi-underground LA rappers.

[rae @raereturns]

Why she sound like that MY DADDY DIED girl

[x of x @escapebound]

“…reference is not the same thing as a jouissance of mastery indifferent to sense or meaning”

[x of x @escapebound]

@colonizedlocal

[x of x @escapebound]

never really agreed with Benjamin that poetry (or the task of the poet) is clearly differentiated from translation (or the task of the translator). Anne Carson is proof.

[dj short @_djshort]

rare footage has surfaced of d'angelo singing 'cruisin' with smokey robinson at the 1996 essence awards

[x of x @escapebound]

yeah.

[Abu The 𓃵 @Abu_The_Truth]

Who is she?