A visionary playwright, novelist, and cultural leader. She was at the forefront of almost everything, doing things before other people even thought of them.
Beautiful Black & Queer
SHAY YOUNGBLOOD 1959-2024
Today, we lost greatly. We lost a revolutionary. The only consolation is that an emancipatory charge toward utopia is paved with defeat and loss. And that Elleni knew too well that this dialectic nourishes the immortality of revolutions 1/2
Banjos brought by Africans, observed throughout #Caribbean in 17th Century. First recorded c1687 in #Jamaica. Recent controversy over Beyoncé making “Country” music needs a reminder of where most modern styles originated.
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Why is Ireland the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the Western world? Why is South Africa the most outspoken pro-Palestinian nation in the whole world? It's not coincidence
"The #SayHerName campaign was launched to fill in the blanks about police violence against Black women as a necessary step in changing the reality of police violence against Black women. In order to do so, the campaign centers survivors." -- @sandylocks
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Had the chance to write about Toni Cade Bambara’s and Gloria Naylor’s turn to independent cinema and some of their unrealized film projects that offer radical insights for our moment. Hope this piece invites you to revisit their work 💛
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#Windrush75 - 'So many stories, woven together like stands of a coconut coaster....So hard to pick out a strand and say, this is the main one, the important one that holds all the others together.' ~ from my own Windrush novel.
Cover art: Habitation by Dawn Scott
These are my teammates. We are Olympic champions. Three of us tried to give birth. Two of us experienced near-death complications. One of us died. We have to, and we will do more. Tori’s death cannot and will not be in vain.
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