last updated August 2021
(feel free to email me for pdf links to essays)
_readings_
(feel free to email me for pdf links to essays)
_readings_
** “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto,” Ishmael Reed (from the book Symposium of the Whole) **
** “Venus in Two Acts,”
Saidiya Hartman **
“Decolonizing Design Reader,” Ramon Tejada + others
Dirty Design: “What is Dirty?,” Marjanne van Helvert
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, and Tithi Bhattacharya
Georges, Alexander Dumas
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, Hanif Abdurraqib
“Ideology, Confrontation and Political Self-Awareness,” Adrian Piper
“In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,” Alice Walker
“marginality as a site of resistance,” bell hooks
“Mixtapes, Sonic Landscapes and the Poverty Archive: The Politics and poetics of the Im/mobilised,” M. Neelika Jayawardane
“Thick: And Other Essays,” Tressie McMillan Cottom
“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde
The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
_viewings_
Chewing Gum, Michaela Coel
JJJJJerome Ellis: New Year’s Day Reading at the Poetry Project
Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio
Lovecraft Country, Misha Green
“Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch”, showing at The Bronx Museum until April 5, 2021
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Chad Freidrichs
Torkwase Dyson & Françoise Vergès at Cooper
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Timothy Greenfield Sanders
Urbanized, Gary Hustwit
“Wailers,” Amiri Baraka
“We hold where study,”
Wu Tsang
_listens_