PhD student in English (he/him)

Madison, WI
Joined October 2011
rip Not Sidney Poitier’s adoptive guardian 🙏
Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. cnn.it/4d7tcQ2
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i wrote something about the proliferation of lists in/as music criticism and their increasing tendency to foist legitimacy for the rankings onto the list’s very audience open.substack.com/pub/sudden…
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D’Angelo singing Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun
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D’Angelo singing Mothership Connection by Parliament. 1996. 22 years old.
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My article on Charles Burnett’s 1978 film Killer of Sheep and the labor of black aesthetics in the long 1970s is out now in Black Camera! Let me know if you want to read it.
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me and matt’s music blog, Sudden Grooves, is back with a new series. i wrote about d’angelo, roberta flack, roy ayers, and spinoza
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RIP Fredric Jameson
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Lauren Berlant on infantile citizenship and “adult citizens” who have “learned how to forget” (1997).
The last six+ minutes (and counting) at the DNC have just been a DJ playing music and attendees waving American flags. Sorry, there's just no time in the agenda for a Palestinian speaker. It's too crammed!
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Today on Edge Effects podcast, @eslevinee speaks with Celeste Winston about marronage as a Black placemaking practice, which can shape our imagination of a world without police. Listen/read more: edgeeffects.net/celeste-wins…
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deadline is friday!
some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! politicalecology.org/session…
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some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! politicalecology.org/session…
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Americans are amazing. They think freedoms are dependent on the goodwill of rulers but still believe it's a democracy. Their elections keep getting stolen and they think they'll fix it by voting. And their famed system is now giving a choice between a genocidaire and a fascist.
I don’t even know where to start with this one except to say — if you care about the future of this democracy, this is worth watching. Every last minute…
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The struggle playing out in Atlanta is a fight for the future. If the state is successful in its prosectuion, then this will set a terrifying precedent going forward. No act of protest is protected, and no one is safe.
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10/26 - 4pm ET Fanonian psychoanalysis, settler colonialism, and Palestinian Resistance with Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi youtube.com/watch?v=duZfw-CG…
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from a friend:
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what’s something i should do w a few days in seattle around uw?
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i think it could be a problem that there (seems to be) a desire for financial success, celebrity notoriety, mainstream platforming etc. to be both evidence of and reward for having good politics and/or being a good person
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a structural, not an individual problem
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