#Afropessimism

Kumi Iman BAE BAE

afropessimism harnesses the power of black depression to create...more depression. it also flattens most other styles of black political discourse as naive discourses of “hope”. this ignores the deeper more

this introduction is inviting and generous I like it Prof. Gloria Wekker up now Started engaging with afropessimism because was asked by editor if she wanted to write a review

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

I think when Saidiya Hartman said, “the slave trade’s investment and obsession with ‘black enjoyment’ and the significance of orchestrated amusements were part of a larger effort to dissimulate the

momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️

RuffneckRefugee

what is profound desolation to some, is an urgent clearing to others. hoping only that these intramural afropessimism debates push us deeper into "the putatively unwanted, forgotten, ignored, or ugly

Boukman prayer is antiblack metaphysics

Most critiques of Afropessimism I have read have been bad faith This does not mean there can be no valid criticism, and that even bad faith critics dont have some

As I was watering stuff this morning, I started thinking of that interview with Frank B. Wilderson III.https://mg.co.za/friday/2020-07-02-part-iii-afropessimism-and-rituals-of-anti-black-violence/?fbclid=IwAR23dEOgf6NtC8waC2sAodhiKUoY2wR1Zt

I think about my project and get overwhelmed almost immediately. *reads my prospectus again*I also think about the current state of the academy and whether it will recover and what

Boukman prayer is antiblack metaphysics

The actual question I wanted to ask him was if the construal of Blackness along spatiotemporally invariant lines under the sign of ‘always already outside the human’ is aimed at

what’s equally distrusting about the labor crisis, which COVID has only clarified, is, beyond exacerbating the economic instability of the working-class, it has revealed that so much of the working-class

I've said this before, but here's my (long) basic take on the historiographic politics of the American Revolution and the #1619Project. I should note before I start that I am

Champagne Sharks Podcast

ChampagneSharks

It’s part of the Slave Playization of Black entertainment. Trauma bonding as the only means of connecting to the audience. It’s pure pseudoconnection and pseudoinsight imohttps://twitter.com/mrgartrelle/status/1318173983964004353 If you