c/o Altagracia Alvarado & Marvin James

Pélagie Gbaguidi: The Body as Archive (2022, Interview)

“I am an archive, we are archives, and if we share them, we might better understand ourselves and the world we live in.”

“My work revolves around the idea of seeing speech and images as signs that need to be deciphered and transmitted. The poetry, drawings, paintings, narrative rituals, and photo objects all create open spaces from which I draw contemporary forms. In this sense, my work reflects the urgency of expressing our experiences…”

The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons (Documentary )

David Hammons Follows His Own Rules by Calvin Tomkins c/o The New Yorker (2019, Article/Audio)

“You have to go back to what we were before you go forward to what we want to be,” Hammons had said to Thompson, as Thompson recalls in a 1992 essay. “I be into memory, more than the avant-garde.”

For his second show at the Gallery Shimada, in 2001, he placed a huge boulder in the bed of a truck, planted a garden around it, and drove around the city.

In 1992, the Whitney paid a hundred thousand dollars for “Untitled,” a massive sculpture in which lengths of construction rebar coated with hair spring like dreadlocks from a base of large stones.

That reminded me of something Hammons had said, years earlier, to Kellie Jones: “I hate the system, every black man does, but too much work about racism is redundant. You’ve got to take your anger and make it beautiful, like Dr. J going to the hoop or like Duke Ellington.”

Revealing/Imagining Slavery through Museum Collections by Fred Wilson c/o Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2021, Video)

Saidiya Hartman & Arthur Jafa c/o The Hammer Museum (2019, Video)

c/o Altagracia Alvarado & Marvin James

“Abundance is shared enoughness” by @PeoplesOracle reading for the Dec 2022 Full Moon (Video)

Dr. Olivia Saunders: Sovereignty & Abundance c/o Common Good Podcast (2022, Podcast)

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance by Jason Hickel (2018, Article)

Thinking about a next system with W.E.B. Du Bois and Fannie Lou Hamer c/o The Next System (2015, Article)

The Mondragon Cooperatives (Video)

The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald’s ‘Welfare Queen’ Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists (2021, Article)

How ‘Race Records’ Turned Black Music Into Big Business by Erin Blakemore c/o History (2018, Article)

“...though these artists pioneered new sounds in blues, jazz, and gospel, most labored for no recognition and little pay.”

“... when black audiences heard that they could buy a record of a black performer singing black music, they rushed to stores, buying 75,000 copies of the record despite it costing the equivalent of two hours of work of the average black person’s salary.”

NO STARVING ARTISTS! NO SELLOUTS! Introduction To Creative Work In The Solidarity Economy by Ebony Gustave and Rad Pereira c/o Art Coop (2023, 4-part Video Series)

Thebe Magugu is transforming secondhand rags into high fashion riches c/o Dazed (2022, Article)

c/o Sharla Berry

Time Theory

What Is Time (Article, 2022)

Time and Black Life

Sha Clack Clack (Poem, 1998, Saul Williams)

We Real Cool (Poem, 1959, Gwendolyn Brooks)

We Real Cool (Video, 2017, Gwendolyn Brooks)

Created by Manual Cinema in association with Crescendo Literary, with story by Eve Ewing and Nate Marshall and music by Jamila Woods and Ayanna Woods.

A Love Song for Latasha (Trailer, 2022)

The Black Progress Index (Data)

Black Time Theory

Revisiting the Legend of Flying Africans by Sophia Nahli Allison c/o The New Yorker (Article, 2019)

Story Time: Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold c/o MoMA (Article, 2020)

Black Grandmother Paradoxes (Article)

Time and Place

Time Lapse Video by Metro Los Angeles (Video, 2018)

Aerial footage of Crenshaw Blvd. restoration at Leimert Park Station

c/o Sela Kerr

Empowerment/Erasure

300 Years of African American Technology and Innovation by Portia James (Article, 2021)

Black to Techno by Jenn Nkiru (Short Film, 2019, 21 min)

Life on The Internet

The Colonization of our Attention by For The Wild (Podcast, 2022, 1 hr 8 min)

Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness by Francesca Sobande (Research Article)

Art and Technology

The Q’eswachaka Bridge, The 124 foot Bridge Woven by Hand (Video, 2018, 3 min)

"Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency” (Article, 2023)

“Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency” Curator Walkthrough (Video, 9 min)

c/o Shewit Zerai

Nature as Portal/Memory

Remembrance & Internal Landscape c/o Black Girl Environmentalist (2023, Blog Post)

Accompanying Instagram Post

An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women By Byllye Avery (1998, Book Excerpt, p.140-141)

Spirits of Sedona by Kamau Kenyatta (2001, Song, 5 min)

Seeds, Grief, and Memory with Rowen White Prentis Hemphill (2023, Podcast, 50 min)

Nature as Kin

Heat is Not a Metaphor by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2023, Article)

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2020, Book Excerpt, p.87-93)

Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism by Amalia Mesa-Bains and bell hooks (2006, Book Excerpt, p. 94-96)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993, Earthseed verse, p. 315)

Nature as Gender Liberation

Tajabone by Raphael Chatelain and Mykki Blanco (2021, Video, 4 min)

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza (2023, Poem, p.13)

c/o Asha Grant

Space ‘n Place

The differences between Space and Place by Ginger Thu (Article, 6 min read)

Space is the Place by Sun Ra (Long Video, 1 hr 21 min)

Space is the Place by Sun Ra (Short Video, 6 min)

Mapping Black Imaginaries and Geographies by Julian Chambliss (Website, Article)

Kevin Durant BlackPlanet Page (2004, Screenshot)

Journeying/Home

Beltway by Solange (2019, Music Video)

Home by Whitney Houston (1983, Live Performance)

The Black Home: Queering Home & Queerness (2023, 56 min)

Homeplace: A Site of Resistance by bell hooks (1990, Essay)

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“The child in each of us

Knows paradise.

Paradise is home.

Home as it was

Or home as it should have been.

Paradise is one's own place,

One's own people,

One's own world,

Knowing and known,

Perhaps even

Loving and loved.

Yet every child

Is cast from paradise-

Into growth and new community,

Into vast, ongoing

Change.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Futurity

Maroon Communities in Americas (Short Article)

Creating a Black Third Space in Cleveland (2021, Short Article)

How Black-Owned Digital Spaces Have Opened The Doors For Alternative Black Spirituality (2023, Article)

c/o Ephraim Owairu

What is Motion in Physics: Laws of Motion, Types and Examples (Article)

Revolution (Definition)

How Important is Speed in a Revolution? (2019, Exhibition)

Flight of the Starlings (2016, Short Film, 2 min)

Why Do Starlings Flock in Murmurations? (2021, Video, ) min)

Black Star: Rebirth Is Necessary by Jenn Nkiru c/o Nowness (2017, Short Film, 10 min)

Raised By Krump by Maceo Frost (2017, Short Film, 21 min)

Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman at Duke University c/o The Black Outdoors (2016, Video)

“Best thing they ever did was fool us into thinking that the Civil Rights Movement was a mass movement.”

Midnight On The Clock Of The World: An Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley (2020, Audio)

The Counter Revolution of 1776 by Gerald Horne (2014, Book)

Dhoruba Bin Wahad: Joining the Black Panther Party and the Fire this Time (2021, Video)

Kwame Ture on the History of Pan Africanism (Video, 11 min)

Kwame Ture on Mobilization & Organization (Video, 4 min)

c/o Crea Jackson and SunXochitl Casto

Heart Chakra Guided Meditation (Audio, 9 Minutes)

The Heart Chakra: An Explanation (Article)

Journaling Prompt: Write a love letter to yourself. Write about your favorite parts of yourself, the parts left behind but still continue to honor, and the parts you hope to discover. Congratulate yourself for the journey, and wish yourself luck for what’s to come. When done, if you feel called to, send it to your future self. Pick a date you feel would be particularly special to read kind words from you to yourself.

Characteristics of a Healthy Heart:Its Values and How To Tend To It (PDF)

The Fourth Precept: Deep Listening and Loving Speech by Thich Nhat Hanh

Snippets of the last Cosmic Anarchy newsletter by @WokeScientist (2023, Instagram Post)

Saretta Morgan Quote c/o @poetryisnotaluxury (2023, Instagram Post)

What if we had work that enhances… by @IntelligentMischief (2022, Instagram Post)

What if we cultivated community… by @IntelligentMischief (2022, Instagram Post)

All About Love by bell hooks (Excerpts, p. 4-5, p. 12-13)

Collective Study Music Playlist (2023)