Homeboy stopped the wrong lady (H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

Tomorrow will have been the 100th birthday of James Baldwin, so (because no one is infallible) here's him getting gently, lovingly, firmly schooled on the intersectionality of race and gender by one Nikki Giovanni www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg2t...

Spotify me recomienda Puerto Rico: Historia de una nación, de mi querido colega Jorell, y yo se lo recomiendo a usté.

Several people have asked, who are the best prose stylists among historians? Those who have been the most useful to me (in no particular order) have been Christopher Hill, C.L.R. James, E.P. Thompson, Natalie Zemon Davis, Eduardo Galeano, and (let me throw in an anthropologist) Clifford Geertz.

The concluding (new) essay in my forthcoming book - out from @haymarketbooks.org in late spring - is about Fanon, anticolonial struggle, climate justice, and the search for human solidarity. I argue that the climate struggle needs Fanon - the actual, complicated, contradictory Fanon.

I watched Dahomey (Mati Diop's awesome documentary) and loved this scene: students in Benim discussing who benefits from the repatriation of looted artifacts, vehemently disagreeing with each other, cherishing dissent.

Finnegans Woke, una novela experimental progre que no se entiende nada pero que es la culpable del crecimiento de la derecha radical.

A darle...