Oh Slay Can U See

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[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

This just made me emotional! 🥹🥰

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

Last week, I spent several days at the @SchomburgCenter, going through photographs of James Baldwin as part of my work as a consultant for a forthcoming exhibition curated by the phenomenal Karen Van Godtsenhoven.

One of the highlights was this snapshot of Baldwin and Toni Morrison in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Unlike the carefully staged portraits that helped construct Baldwin's public image, this photograph feels deeply personal. It wasn't made for publication. It looks like the kind of photograph that might have been processed at a local drugstore and tucked into a family album.

Here are two of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, not performing literary celebrity, but simply enjoying one another's company. There is something wonderfully ordinary about it.

As I think through Baldwin's self-fashioning, this photograph reminds me that public intellectuals are not made through ideas alone. Their lives are sustained by friendships, intellectual communities, chosen families, and private moments of joy. Sometimes a casual photo can reveal more than a professional headshot.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty of murder in the 2025 stabbing of Austin Metcalf

https://t.co/jrdbGpxtTc

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

I am so excited for this! I hope it comes to a theater near me 🙏🏿🤞🏿

[NEON @neonrated]

You are cordially invited to “the most thrilling party of the year.”

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. Conceived and filmed by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves. Directed by David Greaves. In select theaters October 16.

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago and him describing Waffle House is still the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

ALWAYS!!!

[Tayler @tylrmntg]

no cause while we on the subject of The Americans it’s forever fuck stan beeman!!!!!

[Zito @_Zeets]

Umberto Eco on reading

[Dawn @_dawnmontgomery]

I don’t understand how folks thought #Reasons was a love song!!! LISTEN AND READ THE LYRICS PEOPLE!! #EarthWindAndFire @HBODocs

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

Welp… 🤷🏿‍♀️

[Morpheus @Morpheus156]

I have a friend from DR who told me ppl legit hate this guy in that country just bcus of this video and the damage it did to their pr lmfao

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

So excited to watch the #EarthWindandFire doc! 🙌🏿🙌🏿

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

I love that people are getting into The Americans again. Greatest show ever about marriage, parenting, the Cold War, and wigs.

[🍍francesca🍍 @francescaaahhhh]

BRING BACK DRAMA SERIES THEME SONGS

[hazel scott @battymamzelle]

y'all will never see a revolution

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

I’m glad Widows Bay is bringing more people to watch The Americans, bc it is honestly AMAZING TV! I did a rewatch 2 years ago, and was still so good. That last season is perfection!

[A Shot @ashotmagazine]

‘THE AMERICANS’ remains one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

[BMORE Reeta @theNFLchick]

I made it!

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

On Repeat!

[Andrew Barber @fakeshoredrive]

This Tierra Whack & Conductor Williams is SO GOOD 🔥🥂

[Frazier Tharpe II @The_SummerMan]

my next update: Jig is up https://t.co/cYNZdhYhde

[Branden @A3Branden]

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head 🕊️. Here’s a clip of him as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer performing a cover of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who. A beautiful performance that fans will never forget. 💙

[Oh Slay Can U See @heyjscott]

OMG, this is so sad! Not my boy Giles 🥺🥺

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Anthony Head, best known for TV roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso and Little Britain, dies aged 72 https://t.co/obPVwf7MdJ

[✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi @roxana_hadadi]

going to keep pushing this one for a while. my dispatch from the wild, weird, and wonderful @AMCsAnneRice world where #IWTV and now #TheVampireLestat are getting made, at @vulture:

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.