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Black Life, Held Together
Across this series, people gather in fields, warehouses, studio spaces, and public events, carrying with them the practices that sustain everyday life. Children move between arms and laps, conversations continue while hands adjust weight and fabric, and small gestures — a hand on a shoulder, a shared glance, a phrase worn on a shirt […]
Making History Visible: The Practice of Remembering
Throughout my work creating collages, and scouring the web for meaningful art, I have found thousands of images of unidentified Black people. These photos of Black women, children, men, and their families, are all with unknown origins. The archives show blank faces that stare at the camera, remaining still because the slightest move will ruin […]
Black Life Everywhere
Black Life Everywhere Black Life Everywhere (BLE) works with creators to preserve and present nuanced representations that are expressive of Black life. We see music, film, animation, photography, poetry, interviews and writing as integral to how we communicate and tell stories. For us, these varying forms of expression are legitimate and necessary instruments to produce […]
Comic: Like and Subscribe for More Double Standards!
Like and Subscribe for More Double Standards! by JeCorey Holder So, OnlyFans threatened to get rid of porn and “incels” and other puritanical defenders of decorum proceeded to lose their damn minds. Peep the comments on any thread or YouTube video on the matter and you’ll see plenty of folks have made their feelings on […]
Between Black artists and Black love
By Donnie Moreland It must’ve been 2015 when I first viewed Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming (2014). It’s a film which asks the question, what if the nativity story took place between two working class Black folks already raising a little boy in South London. It’s a mesmerizing dreamscape of rage and longing, orbited by […]
The quiet call of ghosts: Dusting my grandmother’s photo reminds me of who I am
by Tiffany Hobbs She has her eyes. It was the first time I’d looked longer than a few seconds into the eyes of the woman in the photograph on my bookshelf. Looking longer introduced me to the inevitability of dying and death. I was hiding from her eyes, playing a game I was determined to […]
The excellence of Black Hollywood doesn’t need to be validated by mainstream awards
by Khaaliq Crowder As a Black millennial, I sometimes forget about the advantage that folks of my generation have as opposed to our grandparents and older relatives when it comes to media representation. Black people weren’t always in movies, and when we were, our presence was seldom. My grandparents, who grew in the 1930s and […]
Queering Kwanzaa: How the seven principles remind me of QTPOC power
by Loni Amor This essay contains discussions of suicidal ideation. Inspired by First Fruit festivals of Southern Africa, African-American civil rights activist and academic, the extremely problematic Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga established Kwanzaa in 1966. Deriving from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza”, which translates loosely to “first fruits of the harvest”, Kwanzaa offers Black […]
What Black Brits want African Americans to know about race and racism in the U.K.
By Habiba Katsha Race and racism aren’t topics that are spoken about openly enough in the U.K., and when they are mentioned it’s usually just to compare it to racism in the States. White British people look at the U.S as the epitome of a racist country, especially with Donald Trump as president. They are […]
ICE and the DEA are paying for hidden streetlight cameras to be watch you all across the country
According to Gizmodo, federal procurement documents show the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed an “‘undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights” all over America. At current it is not yet clear how many cameras have been purchased, or exactly where the cameras have been placed, but the procurement […]
My family’s abusive cisheteropatriarchy is destroying my relationship with my brother
by Indigo My younger brother and I are three years apart. Like most siblings relatively close in age, we quarreled frequently as children. When it came to our extracurricular activities we were rivals. He has always been much more athletic than me, and he excelled at sports. I have always been a high achieving student, […]
On embodying darkness
by Cheikh Athj |disarmament fear is many bodies. torop. allow yourself to feel them, but do not stay stuck. move past fear toward courage, knowing it comes from fear. if you fail, face fear again. without it, there would be no courage. hala: do not stay stuck. once courage is embodied, allow it to push you […]