Month: October 2020

Until the last half hour or so, I was unfamiliar with the concept of “vitality forms.” The first few minutes of this video demonstrate the concept: Your movements can have emotion-like qualities to them that are more basic than emotions, in the sense that they’re not really associated with internal feelings and physiological changes. It’s…

I’m finding it interesting that Afropessimism so self-evidently captures something important about the now, about race relations, to the point that it merits attention from the New Yorker set. Slave Play is getting nominated for stuff. The New Yorker reviewed Afropessimism, the book. This morning, to my surprise, there’s a whole profile on Saidiya Hartman.…

Alicia Garza, #BLM co-creator, just published How to build a multiracial movement in The Atlantic. It’s framed as instructional, but really it’s a lamentation, the same one that’s voiced much more forcefully by Afropessimism. It starts with a familiar scene: In 2014, I was part of an activist organization that worked across various social issues—education…