No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No “new content” needed but just a reminder from 2021 ♾️ Allyship is dead. It must be abundantly clear to everyone that the allyship // privilege paradigm DOESNT WORK. A reimagined framework (and once the dust settles), the hard work of offline coalition building is the only way out of this… “Whiteness’ was a concept popularized by convincing one group of people it would make their lives better, and demonstrating it through the brutal dehumanisation of another group. Now all “whites” even (especially) those who lived in shit conditions and had little power in any other quarter of their lives had the power of life and death over these ‘others’. This is a ‘truth’ that’s had close to 500 years to really embed itself. The question I pose is this: does telling ‘white’ people that racial equality means that their lives have to literally get worse (*but thems the breaks) really seem up to the challenge of uprooting this centuries-old pernicious promise? The allyship narrative is an iteration of the same process of maintaining and reaffirming whiteness, proposing charity at the expense of solidarity. Little in the mainstream anti-racist schtick focuses on challenging the idea of ‘white people’ itself. Rather, it takes the category as an unassailable truth, with the emphasis placed instead on making white people nicer, through a combination of begging, demanding, cajoling and imploring. In the words I so often repeat of Fred Moten “I don’t need your help. I need you to recognise that this shit is killing you too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker” 🖤
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
No way I’m making “new content” to respond to the 2024 race riots. It’s all been said before and I honestly think part of the problem is our short term, non strategic, reactionary approach to everything. So just sharing a few bits from the wild ride that was 2020 2021 that not only do I think remain relevant but need to actually be fully addressed !!! (Incidentally the @grazia articles are from one story on Meghan Markle and another on Sancho, Rashford and Sako but could be *INSERT RACIST INCIDENT OF CHOICE” it’s allllllll the same ting) In What White People Can Do Next; From Allyship to Coalition, borrowing from the sociologist Vron Ware, I wrote about how the elimination of pervasive racism is part of an overarching ‘politics of change that does not provide short-term gratification’. The antithesis perhaps then of social media use, with its quick dopamine hits. The harder slog of necessary anti-racist work that occurs offline, certainly doesn’t “reward” us with the same immediate “buzz”. “Don’t be discouraged by this; the on-going nature of this work is part of what makes it all the more urgent. As many of us as possible must embark on the journey”. The effort required may well be more enduring, but so to will be the rewards… In our increasingly fractured and divided times, we must see that our current framing of conversations about race simply don’t work. To continue on the same path is a self indulgence we can no longer afford.
July was 🔥 Jamaica ~ man like Bogle !!! Revolutionary histories are my jam. Visited Emancipation Park in Kingston and this statue of Paul Bogle who on 23 October was hanged for organising the Morant Bay rebellion, despite his death the rebellion is seen as a turning point in Jamaican history. With the impact of Bogles objective of improving the political and economic conditions of the poor beginning to be felt and the whole incident paving the way for new attitudes ( I love the similarities between Jamaica and Ireland in that that so many of the national heroes are people who fought British imperialism oppression) Deeply stimulating convo @cartier discussing the role of the artist, and covering everything from the relationship between quantum physics and ancestral time to the invention of race Delighted to be a part of the Sky Arts Awards Literature Jury @skyarts so brilliant to see gifted friends recognised in other categories too ( @blindboy @lindsaymendrick am looking at yeeeeee 😍) Hair is hairing ➰➿➰ The most wonderful conversation with @tavaresstrachan discussing everything from the transmission of African ontologies through music and other “informal” sites of knowledge production in the Caribbean, to space travel, as part of his mind-blowing exhibition: There is Light Somewhere on @hayward.gallery GO SEE IT NOW !!! @esdevlin spellbinding installation part of Reverb exhibition @180.studios A very special custom made Claddagh Ring emphasising aspects of Irish culture that I’m channeling atm YOU BELONG HERE @hayward.gallery (know this intimately don’t let anybody attempt to make you feel otherwise, these revolutionary histories didn’t happen for nothing ya zimme)
July was 🔥 Jamaica ~ man like Bogle !!! Revolutionary histories are my jam. Visited Emancipation Park in Kingston and this statue of Paul Bogle who on 23 October was hanged for organising the Morant Bay rebellion, despite his death the rebellion is seen as a turning point in Jamaican history. With the impact of Bogles objective of improving the political and economic conditions of the poor beginning to be felt and the whole incident paving the way for new attitudes ( I love the similarities between Jamaica and Ireland in that that so many of the national heroes are people who fought British imperialism oppression) Deeply stimulating convo @cartier discussing the role of the artist, and covering everything from the relationship between quantum physics and ancestral time to the invention of race Delighted to be a part of the Sky Arts Awards Literature Jury @skyarts so brilliant to see gifted friends recognised in other categories too ( @blindboy @lindsaymendrick am looking at yeeeeee 😍) Hair is hairing ➰➿➰ The most wonderful conversation with @tavaresstrachan discussing everything from the transmission of African ontologies through music and other “informal” sites of knowledge production in the Caribbean, to space travel, as part of his mind-blowing exhibition: There is Light Somewhere on @hayward.gallery GO SEE IT NOW !!! @esdevlin spellbinding installation part of Reverb exhibition @180.studios A very special custom made Claddagh Ring emphasising aspects of Irish culture that I’m channeling atm YOU BELONG HERE @hayward.gallery (know this intimately don’t let anybody attempt to make you feel otherwise, these revolutionary histories didn’t happen for nothing ya zimme)
Join us in celebrating the brilliant author, Emma Dabiri, as we talk all things fashion, femininity and putting pen to paper. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Her groundbreaking work challenges our perceptions on gender, race and identity, while her latest book delves into the true meaning of beauty and female empowerment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Read the full interview online now. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photography by @rebeccasreid Hair and make up by @kaikollectionldn ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #borgowomen #girlpower #empowerment #author #beauty #borgodenor
Join us in celebrating the brilliant author, Emma Dabiri, as we talk all things fashion, femininity and putting pen to paper. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Her groundbreaking work challenges our perceptions on gender, race and identity, while her latest book delves into the true meaning of beauty and female empowerment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Read the full interview online now. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photography by @rebeccasreid Hair and make up by @kaikollectionldn ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #borgowomen #girlpower #empowerment #author #beauty #borgodenor
