the (im)possibility of black study

) These scars on our bodies are impossible. These scars that we carry can’t be. These scars that we share are impossible. These scars on our body can’t be. “These undecipherable markings on the captive body render a kind of hieroglyphics of the flesh whose severe disjunctures come to be hidden to the cultural […]

THE UNCLEAR WORLD: a summer reading list

Essays by Wynter, Wilderson and many others surrounding Afro-pessimism + radical Black theory that I am trying to read and reread this summer. Hi. I want to read this this summer. My plan was to read some of this with or without others. So don’t feel any pressure to commit to reading or not […]

Cecil Freedom School Syllabus (Rough/Unfinished)

Cecil Freedom School is an idea for the future of a virtual school for Black people in poor rural communities like where I grew up. It is also for the white folks in these areas too. In hopes that they may learn and unlearn, see and unsee. When I was young I used to dream […]

Afro-Depressionism Incomplete

Niggas don’t be feeling they theory, ya feel me? Niggas don’t be feeling what it feels like to feel like the World was built atop of you. Niggas don’t be feeling what it feels like to sit with the tomb of history, to let the dust settle beneath your feet, to feel the weight of […]

Nothing is, what Nothing has… Let the Niggas Create: Trap, Rock n’ Roll and Cultural Radicalism

And it’s a permanent scar, you can’t forget who you are It don’t matter where you go, they say we are who we are When you cook in the raw and you’re bad from the start You as cold in your heart, you as cold as your heart And it’s a permanent scar… – Future, […]

Mumbo – Architecture: Sketch on Structure, Performance and Resistance

There is a very important analytic distinction between structural determinism and structural conditionalism. The one who thinks structural determination is one with archaeology; The one who thinks structural conditionalism is one with architecture. This is a sketch on Mumbo – Architecture. 1. We are not determined by the structure; we are conditioned by it. Thus, […]