dorneka. ⚧️

fried plantain in human form.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

afronome.2 - on a cold J’ouvert morning

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

Black masculine erotics also suffer from the same, but there is a larger space for them, their errors and fuckerish ways. Aggression and violence and the effects of violence upon one another are more readily tolerated as a part of normal masculinity.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

I love these conversations because they all relate to how Black feminine erotic expression in the UK has been overshadowed and underdeveloped in a number of ways, especially because of the inheritance of patriarchally dominant attitudes from
home countries.

[J.F ᥫ᭡ @bundleofjess]

Think we are too harsh in female rappers in the UK

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

And not just them. I have love for Ms Banks, however it feels like in part the development of Black feminine erotic also lags in a lack of research, relationship and good connection between the interiority of its development.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

Even when Dominican and Lucian artistes talk in English; their intonations match the beat in a way that mirrors Creole vernacular.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

I think this is almost there; but Kweyol, Antillean and Francophone Creoles suit the Bouyon sound so well in ways that I don’t believe English-based vernaculars can.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

@PsycheMat2024 @BadivaTweets @FLOTUK Definitely! I did some brief research about how the use of plumage and glitter in Caribbean carnivals is represented as a binding with the natural world and cultural skills of making. What beauty subcultures do you identify come from Carnival?

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

@BadivaTweets @FLOTUK This is true - this is why I mentioned the Dancehall Queen as a mother of our baddie cultures - I’m looking at Black Britain as a landscape of different beauty aesthetics however.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

@FLOTUK High vibrancy beauty cultures however are like endangered or rare animals in the fact that without correct structures of protection (especially for those prone to sexual violence) and ways of continuance that are protected by the hegemonic culture and its occurences, they dwindle

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

@FLOTUK have always been supported by a complete seperation from traditional colonial elitism, through the adoption of 'duttyness' or gutterness; vibrations that are close to the base of the earth. The most visible are also the most innovative.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

@FLOTUK …but the overlay that Britain has - spiritually and economically -and seeps into Black beauty culture suppresses it a lot. This gave me food for thought, thank you.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

@FLOTUK “We don’t have a baddie culture” is interesting. I’ve been trying to research into this and it feels like there are burgeoning hotspots of baddieness and beauty that lay fragmented and knit together loosely (particularly from the archetype of the Dancehall Queen)…

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

You can not well replicate or invest in a musical heritage that you do not understand factually or in an abstract sense and way. I’ve heard Congolese people talk about growing up on Zouk, and Bouyon in the same way that Bajan people talk about growing up on country music.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

Theodora (Congolese) can do bouyon well because she seemingly understands and is integrated into Black French/Francophone musicality as a Congolese woman connected to the Black Francophone diaspora. Her homage to Zouk in Be My Valentine is one example.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

To my limited understanding, Black Francophone African and Caribbean people share musical heritage, partly due to the French history of colonisation. Black British people who do
not have such backgrounds typically lack in their understanding of the unique tonalities of that.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

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[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

I think this is almost there; but Kweyol, Antillean and Francophone Creoles suit the Bouyon sound so well in ways that I don’t believe English-based vernaculars can.

[MS BANKS @MsBanks]

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[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

BXKS did a great GQOM freestyle; partially because I think Dancehall, GQOM, and Bashment, share more musical similarities than Black British rap developed from an Anglophone Caribbean/African stance and Bouyon do.

[dorneka. ⚧️ @kawofleur]

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