The brutal vulgarity of it all! Vulgar.

Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”

Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.

Zohran (gone to bed. Goodnight ya’ll).

Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to give Democrats a key victory heading into the 2026 midterm elections and make history as the first-ever woman to lead the commonwealth. https://to.pbs.org/4hOFU8C

I ain’t able. Goodnight. Gone to bed.

The mainstream media is not just consolidating it is purging. Why? A singular story of the oligarchs must be told and enforced as the only truth available to us on those or rather their planforms.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

Sometimes I don’t believe what I am reading or hearing but it is real regardless of what I am experiencing. (Notes On Being A Man). Men are in trouble but not for the reasons they think. The inability to transform…

Read The World After Rain.

The rise and shift to subscription culture for services, especially affective arrives like music, film, TV etc. is an act of digital unfreedom. We submit to the practice at our peril. Abolish subscription culture. Gimme the hard copy.

People are fucked-up. Part 2.

People are fucked-up!

Submitted without comment.

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Many of the anti-pluralism trends we are seeing right now in Canadian higher education have their own root in Canada & calling them imported is only part of the story. In 2018 @evehawk.bsky.social & I organized a symposium addressing the emergence of Peterson but also the longer history of the trend

for watching if you missed and would like a dose of the kind of attentive, attuned brilliance that makes hope possible in times like these

That was the best Alchemy Lecture by far. (Now comparison is a problem since each lecture addresses a different theme. But wow. That was phenomenal!). #Alchemylecture2025. Whew chile.

Canisia Lubrin is a genius of de word! #Alchemylecture2026.

They have gone to town, as we ah say in de Caribbean at the Alchemy lecture. They gon town! #Alchemylecture2025.

“the noise of profit and pollution” — Glen Coulthard. #Alchemylecture2025. Glen says it! Listen!

“acoustic acts of sovereignty” — Glen Coulthard on the drum. #Alchemylecture2025

“the sound of dispossession” — Glen Coulthard #Alchemylecture2025

Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST. Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Don’t listen to Bill Gates. Climate change demands comprehensive actions. (Putting this in the mildest possible way as Melissa hits land over Jamaica).

It is suddenly winter. 7:50PM Buffalo.

There are important preliminary skirmishes taking place as the #Carney led class war agenda heats up but the building of a united and powerful resistance is an urgent task. My column this month for @canadiandimension.bsky.social . canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

“and people wearing custom merch from affinity groups like “Hot Girls for Zohran.”

I am not really a praying person: Jamaica on my mind this AM.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar is looking more and more like this moments Eugenia Charles.

The fucking Blue Jays. Whew.

Still time to register. 5-8 pm EST in person. Lecture 6-8 pm EST. Thursday October 30!

Diaspora capitalized heads to a major fashion house. Rescue diaspora. Hey! I said what I said. Get mad.

Some Black contemporary art relationships to history is now experienced by as a kind of safety for saying not much than an urgent intervention in to our present condition. History as cover is complicity if not something more dangerous.

The boring repetitions and repetitiveness of some Black contemporary art.

The Age of Information has spectacularly flamed out.

The Apologist Tour…

Karine Jean-Pierre is hawking a new book. That is all.

‘What I do with my body is none of your business’: musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland on trans rights, cult stardom and living with dementia

The ruse of specificity. Equiano lived in Europe and the Americas and Africa and the fucking world.

People still think they don’t need to read black thinkers to do their work. They’re wrong and their work is worse for it.

Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/

Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together. Join us. In person or online. October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum. events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...

Spread the word! #SaveUT!! UT Austin admin are working to eliminate vital departments and censor what profs can teach. If you haven’t yet written to UT Austin admin, please do do do. The more voices of protest and support the better. An attack on one is an attack on all!

In light of the criticism of Columbus some are now laundering the reputation of Las Casas. Did they stop reading before he made his statements about Africans?

If able, please consider donating to help care for baby Asiah: fundly.com/missmajor Please at least share this post if unable to contribute! 🫂

Happy pub day! The World After Rain. Canisia Lubrin.

These bewildering times have me feeling like I am in an episode of the Twilight Zone or Twin Peaks that just will not end.