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for our @jupiter.magazine issue 004: OF PROPHECY release celebration, another experiment in how much anti-gravity a head can hold thank you @sexyscalps ❤️‍🔥 my favorite cranial cartographer

@blackembodiments journal edited by yours truly, designed by @bougieboybash & featuring: a conversation between Jessica Lynne, Amarie Gipson and i on their “sweet black writing lives” and the work of cobbling together the timespace a hungry practice demands Jordan Barrant on Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich Haja Fanta on Jess Atieno Nia-Amina Minor on Chari Glogovac-Smith Whitney Washington on Elizabeth Catlett and La’Toya Hobbs & Jessica Aguilar on Yannick Lowery 🕯️🤲🏽 thank you to @the_works for inviting me back into the womb from which my own arts writing practice emerged & to the cohort for their implacable rigorous trust in me

i 🧡 detroit etc. etc. @1000000000devwill’s flicks from @jupiter.magazine’s motor city madness debut the midwestern mafia is alive and well ! 🪄 @blackartlibrary @periodicals__shop @aaprintandpublishing @shoplito.co

‘Between the Two my Heart is Balanced’ (word to Lubaina Himid) ❤️‍🔥

the line remains latent from our long distance call between Chicago and Lagos a recording of our conversation “The Ancestral Disk: Tracing the Connections between West African and Chicago House Music” at @marianeibrahimgallery & the associated zine, ‘Feedback,’ are both available via the link in our bios together, these offerings archive @kemkemlij’s research conducted during her @villa.albertine residency and explore how West African rhythms and Chicago House call and respond to one another across the water through a consideration of the monarch butterfly’s migratory mechanisms as an allegory for the transmission of music across the Black Atlantic, we seek to position the sonic traditions birthed from instances of mass migration as sources of divine vision and ancestral guidance widest wings of gratitude to @collinastrada for dressing us in their SS23 collection, which reveres the resolute magic of monarchs butterflies and thank you to @bellhue for documenting us & may our gathering stand as a testament to the power of transatlantic dialogue, a call for remembrance, and a vision of our collective future from the inner sanctum of rhythm itself, Olukemi Lijadu, Camille Bacon, and Jada-Amina

RECONTAMINATING BLACK VISUAL CULTURE: New Bottega and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Dreams we chatted about the @carriemaeweems x @asaprocky x @newbottega father’s day campaign, the anesthetizing of Black visual culture, and the urgency of remaining clear in our commitment to freedom beyond representation. we wonder, in the wake of this campaign, what becomes of Carrie Mae Weems’ seat at her own ‘Kitchen Table’ and how we can insist on a Black visual culture that contaminates propriety. available now for free via substack (& also via spotify, apple music, etc.) ** please note that we recorded this from our respective phone hot-spots, so bear with us as the sound cuts in and out at times

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“Come back.” — Toni Morrison to Lucille Clifton in 1973 (slide 2: Ms. Toni and Ms. Lucille at the 1996 National Book Award ceremony)

we learned from @alexispauline who learned from Sylvia Wynter that “cultural workers… have a responsibility for what is and is not imaginable in [our] lifetimes.” for @dariasimoneharper & i, quantum mechanics, as a conceptual framework, cleaves open the realm of the “imaginable” as it proposes an alternative means of understanding the universe’s language by devising models far more vast than those put forth by traditional physics. if quantum physicists use their equations to re-render the possible, we wondered what it might mean to apply such a lens to cultural criticism… and, boom, @jupiter.magazine issue 002: QUANTUM was born ! 🪐🤲🏽🖤 thank you to every person/place/entity that put wind under the wings of this work ! & like we said in the editor’s note, “may your soul strip down here, dissolve into the dust of our black eternity”

🖤 @houseofaama 🖤

“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. My drooping hopes came to life again with the flowers. I was dreaming of freedom again…” — Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861 the Chowan river, Harriet’s current of self-emancipation / @dariasimoneharper & i in ceremony / an excerpt from the welcome poem @michelleisrizin recited on 21/3/24 thank you @johnica & @michelle for gathering us for a weekend of praise and conjure 🤲🏽 #aSojournforHarrietJacobs

happy 2 weeks of @jupiter.magazine issue 001: worldbending featuring @yungdeadthing @jennydeluxe @j.lean1 @diallosimonponte @xaymacans and orbits of gratitude to the incandescent brilliance that is @dariasimoneharper and our reach for ecstatic editorial conditions 🪐🤲🏽🖤