Oluwasika!

scholar, city girl theorizing technology, black life & education || menyɛ dadaba me ne dada naa (flowking stone, 2005)

[SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) @NewBlackMan]

Betye Saar.

Photograph by Michele Mattei

Courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

re:bell hooks discussion. what it shows is that ppl fundamentally dont value intellectual history. ideas emerge & exist w/in certain contexts & discourses. it’s more useful to see thinkers as being in conversation w/ 1 another than to think of them in terms of personal preference

[ArtReview_ @ArtReview_]

Betye Saar, whose assemblages confronted racist depictions of Black women, has died aged 99. https://t.co/oALBe48vAu

[Miss.Cobbah @Nnefua90_]

It’s okay to acknowledge when our faves don’t deliver their best. I’ve seen some really beautiful pieces from Kai Collective, some I’ve even been eyeing myself. This however is below par from them if we are being honest.

[P0liticalbaby 🇵🇸🇨🇩 @mao_0k]

No absolutely not. I hate this thing where people disagree with your thesis and they begin to discredit your body of work and academic contribution. In fact it is anti-intellectualism to the highest degree.

People who disagreed wrote their counter thesis in PUBLISHED PEER REVIEWED journals not coming on twitter chatting shit. She was not just a “lady thinking out loud”. She is very much a sociological authority

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

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[Uncle Ya Njugi @1juan1juan1juan]

This is how your most immoral friend be greeting your parents

[Hashilé 🇸🇳🇲🇱🇳🇬 | Personnage principal @sankurienne]

Sorry but the discourse around Tyla’s identity has exposed something that deserves to be called out: expecting Africans to understand themselves primarily through a Black American racial framework, while refusing to engage with African’s countries’ racial hierarchies and colonial histories, is a form of xenocentrism that has already become xenophobic in this case.

At some point there has to be intellectual curiosity from
BA. Black Americans are not the only Black people with histories of racialisation, colonialism or oppression. South Africa’s racial classifications for example emerged from a distinct colonial and apartheid system with its own categories, meanings and consequences. Those histories cannot simply be overwritten by an American understanding of race, simply because Tyla wants to market herself to the BA audience. It doesn’t work like that.

Tyla did not invent South Africa’s racial hierarchy any more than Black Americans invented Jim Crow or the one-drop rule. Both are products of white supremacy, but they developed differently in different places. Expecting her to reject the identity that was historically imposed, negotiated and understood within her own country simply to satisfy an American racial framework is insane.

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

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[Kelela @kelelam]

Prince/Janet/D’Angelo/Nirvana bag ✨activated✨

OUTTA TIME feat. the production and sexy voice of A. K. Paul
https://t.co/lJNjJUemAX

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

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[mus @_seamusharvey]

"you gotta see the odyssey in imax 70mm"

i will be watching it in 3-5 months on the back of a Delta seat, thx

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

That Odyssey score needs to be performed live with a dance company ASAP

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

tryna give back to my country

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

this is so sad. Anyone wanna it through FaceTime?

[Silverbird Cinemas Ghana @SilverbirdGhana]

An epic we’ll have to miss 💔 Unfortunately, The Odyssey will not be screening at any of our locations.

We appreciate your patience and look forward to bringing you more incredible movies soon.

#silverbirdghana

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

a work of art.

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

Ugh Matt Damon the man that you are!

[Victoria Monét @VictoriaMonet]

Frequency Of Love
10.2.26
Album link in bio to pre-save

[Adia. @hey_itsAdia]

when Kelela said haaooouuooohhaaahuuahh my life changed.

[Ferrari @Ogeferrari]

I miss the Sarz & Wurld era 😔
Premium music mehn.

[Oluwasika! @jux_Bella]

♥️

[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

Chester Bennington sadly passed away 9 years ago today 🕊️

[Karisma Price @itsKayPrice]

If y'all love the Odyssey, then y'all will love If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Both about men trying to get home to their wife and son but can't due to hardships out of their control. I wrote a poem casting Baldwin's characters as the characters in The Odyssey.