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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: California to smash prison e-profiteers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/08/cap…
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Inside: California to smash prison e-profiteers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/08/cap…
#Pluralistic
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This Weds (May 10), I'm in #Vancouver for a keynote at the #OSSummit:
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And a book event at #HeritageHall:
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On Thu (May 11), I'm in #Calgary for @WordfestTweets:
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events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…
And a book event at #HeritageHall:
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…
On Thu (May 11), I'm in #Calgary for @WordfestTweets:
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…
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California to smash prison e-profiteers: The Public Utility Commission to the rescue!
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Ich weiß nicht, ob es ein Twitteralgorithmus ist oder einfach das fehlende Interesse an diesem Thema. In regelmäßigen Abständen kommen (auch oft von mir) Cover-Vergleiche.
Dit kenn wa schon allet. Wozu n Aufschrei?
Außerdem gibbet ja schon Cover mit Schwarzen druf, genügt doch.
Dit kenn wa schon allet. Wozu n Aufschrei?
Außerdem gibbet ja schon Cover mit Schwarzen druf, genügt doch.
Und während die Cover mit Schwarzen Personen aufgezählt werden, scheint außer Acht gelassen zu werden, dass es sich bei diesen Titeln um #afrofuturism handelt. Afrozentrische Geschichten mit regionalen Folktales und/oder Historie. Da wäre es wirklich etwas seltsam, #whitewashing
zu betreiben.
Außerdem kann man auf diese Art dem Buch einem Stempel aufdrücken. Zack, das ist dieses Afrozeug. Kommt neben den Aufsteller mit Herkunfts-Struggel-Storys und kulturelle trauma porn? Während "normale" Bücher "normale" Cover bekommen?
Außerdem kann man auf diese Art dem Buch einem Stempel aufdrücken. Zack, das ist dieses Afrozeug. Kommt neben den Aufsteller mit Herkunfts-Struggel-Storys und kulturelle trauma porn? Während "normale" Bücher "normale" Cover bekommen?
Thread on ideas for an open hardware stack for museums and heritage people. Raspberry Pi and Arduino, 3D printing, touchable LOD (linked open data) data sculptures and mesh networking come to mind. 1/9
Re: this post by @Heritage_Things
Re: this post by @Heritage_Things
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Nora Al-Badri's narratives around 3D-Printing
nora-al-badri.de/works-index
📷 Screenshot of Nora Al-Badri in The Last Museum. KW Berlin 2021
Nora Al-Badri's narratives around 3D-Printing
nora-al-badri.de/works-index
📷 Screenshot of Nora Al-Badri in The Last Museum. KW Berlin 2021
"#AfroFuturism: Of #Obatala and #Oduduwa's Peace Archetype for the World" - by @SMBofAfrica
Time, space and historical events are often encumbered in determinism. That George Floyd's scenario is historical and a re-enactment of past experiences of the Blacks is not elusive...
Time, space and historical events are often encumbered in determinism. That George Floyd's scenario is historical and a re-enactment of past experiences of the Blacks is not elusive...
Before the amplification and proliferation of the Trans Atlantic Slaves Trade, the rupture of world's peace had started out. Racialization coded and systemized in slavery in the US, though contested but not defeated by the events of the US Civil War under Abraham Lincoln
Rosa Parks and the 20th century's Blacks were unable to bring down racism, instead the monster renew it's energies in all ramifications in the 21st century. Now, George Floyd's ghost is reenacting the same eventualities of the 19th & 20th centuries. Time, space, events looping.
MAY 25 is #AfricaDAY. Reflecting on the import of the day, I remembered an article I mused to celebrate a living African LITERARY ICON (Wole Soyinka) on the occasion of his birthday sometimes last year.... I am mirroring it today within the paradigm of #afrofuturism
"Wole Soyinka: A Modern Reincarnate of Ogun" as written by @SMBofAfrica
Akínwáandé Olúwolé Babátúndé Sóyíinká is a literary god. His writings on OGUN, his beloved Yoruba Pantheon shaped my ideas of the scientific past of the Yoruba nation within the framework of #afrofuturism
Akínwáandé Olúwolé Babátúndé Sóyíinká is a literary god. His writings on OGUN, his beloved Yoruba Pantheon shaped my ideas of the scientific past of the Yoruba nation within the framework of #afrofuturism
Within the remix of concocted and convoluted myths in Yoruboid cosmogony, OGUN is a mysterious figurine with multi-dimensional capabilities. He erupted as Yoruboid Pantheon with seven lives.
"Re-framing Yoruboid #AfroFuturism: Ogun's Transduction, Modernity and Globalization" by @SMBofAfrica
Premised on the disquisition of the likes of @RPhillipsEsq and @moormother, it's apt to agree that #afrofuturism reimagines Africa's past and envisions Africa's futures
Premised on the disquisition of the likes of @RPhillipsEsq and @moormother, it's apt to agree that #afrofuturism reimagines Africa's past and envisions Africa's futures
Myths and oral traditions of the Yorubas affirm OGUN as a figurine and one of the deities (irunmoles) that created the world (Yoruba's ontology, cosmogony and historicity). Ogun's affects transcend space, time, science, tech, temporalities and futurities. Ogun lives till today
#Ogun's spiritism articulates time. It interrogates time-space as a loop, as wheels within wheels. Envisages the futures of Africans and the African diaspora ahead of time. Ogun erupts and brews into the nowness of the events that have characterized Africa's lived experiences
THIS! Humans are amazing.
I was geeking out tonight with a friend (who’s an expert on the intersection of fashion & black culture) over the #Amasunzu hairstyle previously worn by Rwandan men and single women. Rwandans were showing us #AfroFuturism well-over a hundred years ago.
I was geeking out tonight with a friend (who’s an expert on the intersection of fashion & black culture) over the #Amasunzu hairstyle previously worn by Rwandan men and single women. Rwandans were showing us #AfroFuturism well-over a hundred years ago.
It is occasionally worn today, but rare. I’ve spent time in Rwanda and not seen it there.
Related, part of my journey to Rwanda was to visit eastern Congo. There, I witnessed the glory of the Congolese ‘dandy’ fashion culture that is #LeSape.
Related, part of my journey to Rwanda was to visit eastern Congo. There, I witnessed the glory of the Congolese ‘dandy’ fashion culture that is #LeSape.
Le Sape culture is mostly associated with Kinshasa, far away on the other side of Congo. Yet, It also has a home in Goma.
For the past decade, Goma has been one of the most difficult places to live in Congo (and the world). Joy still flourishes there.
africanarguments.org/2016/02/25/les…
For the past decade, Goma has been one of the most difficult places to live in Congo (and the world). Joy still flourishes there.
africanarguments.org/2016/02/25/les…
A thread on process? Organizing #ZoraAcademic Conference is a group activity. Building on @zorafestival commitment to #humanities and the #arts. I work with @scotfrench, Trent Tomengo (@SeminoleState), @clarissawhite and others. @WorldProfessor @Prof_Kennedy
@zorafestival @scotfrench @SeminoleState @clarissawhite @WorldProfessor @Prof_Kennedy This is a year long process linked to five year vision. The Zorafestival20# is first year of new cycle. The turn toward #Afrofuturism at @zorafestival
give @k8dee16, @Hardcore888 & @3Isiah opportunity to speak to the public. @WorldProfessor @Prof_Kennedy
give @k8dee16, @Hardcore888 & @3Isiah opportunity to speak to the public. @WorldProfessor @Prof_Kennedy
@zorafestival @scotfrench @SeminoleState @clarissawhite @WorldProfessor @Prof_Kennedy @k8dee16 @Hardcore888 @3Isiah This year's theme has always been "What is Afrofuturism?" internally. The programming across the festival spaces is an answer. The festival bring a black speculative past and future into dialogue. @scotfrench @Prof_Kennedy @WorldProfessor #zorafestival20 #zorafest2020
Black folks in SFF & black folks in SFF only (do not respond if this doesn’t apply to you please): Has anyone else noticed how some Afrofuturism fan groups/lists become a gathering space for hoteps & their particular brand of misogyny & racial essentialism?
I’m in two groups & it seems to be getting worse. I feel like the rise of popularity of #afrofuturism & #africanfuturism has attracted a lot of problematically/single issue pro-black kind of cis men who seem to hate women, queers & mixed race folks. Am I just in bad groups?
I tried to post in the group naming what I’m seeing and asking folks for suggestions of other groups and this is what I got from the admin of the Afrofuturism group on FB so I left.
#HowICameToClimate: I grew up in an activist fam. Mom was an elected official+attorney fighting police violence. As a teen I was active in the peace movement+witnessed much eco-activism connected to that (mostly white). In my 20s I did black community organizing.
#ClimateTwitter
#ClimateTwitter
In the early '00s, I co-faciltated a bunch of activist spaces w/ Van Jones+Julia Butterfly that connected racial+economic justice w/ eco activism. Back then, I was primarily an artist+occasional facilitator. Most of my energy went into making art that has strong social commentary
At the time, I wasn't part of any particular political organizations, but I had strong relationships with activists in many movements+folks knew they could call on me for different stuff: performing, teaching, facilitating. Folks commissioned me to write poems for their movements
Woke up to a Google alert about this new review of #BodymindsReimagined in American Literary History by Rebecca Wanzo (@rawreader) & I am just so honored & amazed.
I’ll share my favorite quotes below! Happy to send folks a copy who don’t have access!
academic.oup.com/alh/advance-ar…
I’ll share my favorite quotes below! Happy to send folks a copy who don’t have access!
academic.oup.com/alh/advance-ar…
“Schalk offers the most paradigm-shifting challenge to what is speakable and unspeakable: the problem of linking blackness with disability and how to reframe our treatment of these categories”
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“The issue of pleasure is one of the most radical interventions of the book, thus modeling a new ideal of what the nexus of race and the speculative genre can do.” (And shout out to @adriennemaree, @WalidahImarisha & @OctaviasBrood) #pleasureactivism
We’re less than 2 months away from the 1st birthday of #BodymindsReimagined. Right now the book has a 4.75 rating on @goodreads & 5 stars on @amazon. I would love to see a few more reviews up in the next month. If you’re read it & loved it, please submit a review!
#bookreview #bookbirthday #DukeUP #RateAndReview #SupportBlackWomen #WomenWriters #Afrofuturism #disability #blackfeminism
Ugh if *you’ve* read it. This new phone and me are having issues.
Learning is fun but more so with amazing friends! It’s been a week since @OISECIARS’s #Decolonizing18 conference and I’m still processing pgs of learning. #fangirling over Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings - talked abt #wakanda & #afrofuturism. #decolonization #anticolonialism #oiseuoft
After my talk on #Afrofuturism #Blackpanther and black video game characters at #feralvector, lots of people asked me for resources and recommendations. Here's a thread...
My talk was based on this article I wrote for @guardian theguardian.com/games/2018/feb…
Octavia E Butler is a black, feminist writer who is associated with afrofuturism. She tackles slavery, power, gender and sexuality in her books. Her most famous work is Kindred. Also the Xenogenesis series
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