To those in Los Angeles, the 2025 KITFO Film Festival is upcoming. The festival celebrates Ethiopian and Eritrean cinema. www.kitfofilmfestival.com

Currently re-reading Saketopoulou’s “Sexuality Beyond Consent,” because it is a book that is worthy of revisiting repeatedly, both because it is dense and rich and not easily digested, but also because it has a power in its writing not always seen in analytic literature.

The history of the US is drenched in blood. Any rights gained in this country for the marginalized—for workers, women, Black and brown people—were gained through violence and bloodshed. The myth that the US is virtuous is a lie. They made these rules. Not us.

I'm very proud of how this turned out. Please message me if you read it!

Happy 40th Anniversary to Stevie Wonder’s twentieth studio album ‘In Square Circle’ originally released September 13, 1985 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @markchappelle.bsky.social here: album.ink/SWonderISC

When you use the word “trauma” to describe any uncomfortable or difficult feeling, emotion, or experience, it diminishes the power and impact of actual trauma. We need the word trauma to describe a certain type of experience which necessitates attention.

“If we believe that the individual ought 2 be a social individual & his/her happiness should have something to do with connection beyond the self & intimate relations, we should perhaps be troubled by the fact that, too often, our work produces only healthier & happier versions of narcissism” Layton

“Dominant ideology works very diligently on a number of fronts to hide the systemic nature of inequities of all kinds, to make sure that an individual’s problems seem just that, individual” - Lynne Layton

“Two of the major tropes by which bourgeois ideology operates are dehistoricization, which involves naturalizing and universalizing what is actually specific to a given historic moment and a given constellation of relations, and what Barthes calls ex-nomination …

Training new clinicians in the age of behavioral treatment and managed care is very challenging and disheartening. I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally

“We lack adequate concepts for describing this vicarious responsibility for things we have not done: that is, for the manifold indirect, structural, and collective forms of agency that enable injury, exploitation, and domination but that frequently remain in the shadows” - Michael Rothberg

Most of my time reviewing proofs from publishers is clarifying for them that journals usually did not assign a "doi" for articles before the mid-1990s. You would think they would know this, but it seems like they if they don't see a doi they just automatically create the query.

An excellent article by one of the most insightful and knowledgeable people today writing about music.

Next, I'm jumping out of a writing about Stevie. Into more writing about Stevie. His most recent album to date 'A Time To Love' turns 20yo about 3 weeks from now. So if you see me posting about Prince, En Vogue, Kim Burrell, India.Arie, it's b/c I can't keep all this research to myself.

“One of the greatest paradoxes in the history of psychoanalysis is that pasychoanalytic institutions have developed in directions antithetical to psychoanalytic concepts.” Tim Dean and Christopher Lane.

Some excerpts from "Psychoanalysis as Counter-hegemonic Practice," by Nancy Caro Hollander, presented at APsA, Sept. 2021. "Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci conceptualized ideology as a component of hegemony and postulated that the ruling classes govern by securing consent from ...

“Precisely because identities are constructed within, not outside, discourse, we need to understand them as produced in specific historical and institutional sites within specific discursive formations and practices, by specific enunciative strategies. Moreover, they emerge within the play of …

Cannonball Adderly’s solo on So What is easily my favorite. That’s saying something considering the other solos are Miles, Trane, and Bill Evans. Cannonball’s melodies and motifs are amazing and playful and beautiful all at the same time. Cannonball deserves so much more love than he often gets.

This article gives a closer look at how Bad Bunny's DtMF comments on and warns against the active colonization of Puerto Rico. critica.press/2025/07/01/w...

Fromm, “Escape From Freedom”

An essay on music as protest. critica.press/2025/07/01/w...

Satire is very difficult to discern in social media comments. Sometimes I write a comment so absurdly wrong & bizarre that the reader is forced to choose between believing I am buffoonish or being satirical. It is stunning how many ppl choose the former, & that speaks to how we consume social media.

3 Years, 5 Months … - Arrested Development

Nas

Treach

Raisin’ Hell

Chuck D

Everything’s Gonna Be Alright - Naughty by Nature

Apocalypse 91 - PE To the East Blackwards - XClan Naughty by Nature - NbN Reaching- Digable Planets

Jay-Z

Peter Piper - Run DMC

LL

1970s. The sheer diversity of style and influence is immense.

The rhythm section

Songs in the Key of Life

As Grandma’s Hands Ooh Child A Song for You A Change is Gonna Come

Less live instrumentation.

Bass

Whitney, Donny Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway, LV

Whitney, Gladys, Lalah, Chaka

Stevie Wonder

Waterfalls - TLC

Songs in the Key of Life The Way I See It Just As I Am RN1814

When Fascism came into power, most ppl were unprepared.They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, lust for power, disregard for … the weak, or yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak - Erich Fromm

“Modern [humans are] anxious and tempted to surrender their freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming themselves into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not free but automatons” - Erich Fromm.

I'm teaching an 8 week course, "Psyche & Society", to candidates this fall & wanted to share the syllabus. This is part 1 of a 2 part course, (2nd part taught by someone else). It was challenging, but also really fun, to decide what to include or not, how to structure the course, & which readings...

And she’s so much better than both of them. 💜

The episode “The Hauntening,” S6E3, of Bob’s Burgers, is one of the most beautifully written episodes of a TV show I’ve ever seen.

We should all be readers of @markchappelle.bsky.social writing.