if you wanna hear zora neale hurston singing the work work songs she preserved, click here www.loc.gov/collections/...

there they are! thank you for this

3. I recall the first time I read DuBois's "Souls of Black Folk," and that's where I first heard the phrase "sorrow songs." The songs enslaved people sung on plantations. If you ever see Zora Neale Hurston footage from her movies, she captures work songs from working men

So im sitting here watching the "Lord of the Flies" miniseries on Netflix. And there's one point in the second episode where the boys break off into the famous military chant. We all know it. The sing-songy "sound off, one-two" type chant. Do you know where that comes from? 🧵

We have a lot of fun out here, but this is what it's all about. Smoke and CO alarms have expiration dates. Replace them every 10 years.

Has anyone else seen “The King’s Daughter” (2022)?? Mermaids, Musketeers, William Hurt’s priest (R.I.P. dude), & Pierce Brosnan as King Louis the XIV Low reviews probably justified but my mom & I liked the costumes, decor, and the bold chick protagonist

Damn… bittersweet choice Iyanu had to make in the season 1 finale 😢

Meanwhile in SE Michigan…

For sure. Online hosting is VERY expensive. In CA we have the CDNC, a university-backed newspaper repository. Unfortunately they got hit by Trump's library funding cuts laat year and are struggling to stay open. We might lose hundreds of local papers who only exist online there.

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

Yup.

You want Black women to do the socio emotional moral and value work of this country ... but you don't want to compensate them ... you don't want to empower them... you dont want to platform them

The wealthy The powerful the connected

you want it to be Black women... but in reality your critique should be directed to... wait for it...

Typos smh

Roe V. Wade

With 'Israel and Palestine' trending at #1 on Mother's Day, let me say James Baldwin had it exactly right: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." 🧵

Detroit area people!! 🌸 If you want to sign the Michigan Money Out of Politics petition, they have it at Walking Lightly in Ferndale until the 13th! This is an effort to stop DTE Energy from buying politicians!! More opportunities to sign by the 13th here: mopupmichigan.org/action/find-...

The myth that POC don't like sequential art is a lie. The myth that POC cannot write well is a lie. Stop trying to sell characters to a DM that doesn't want them and stop trying to sell a format that people outside the DM don't want either.

I'm not going to dance around the racism of the direct market anymore because people are embarrassed by it, because do we want to tell stories and sell books or not?

Spouse’s waffles & pretty fruit salad for breakfast, under the scent of the bouquet I chose for her. For the Sacred Daily Walk, we’re taking Mi Madre & her dog out for a short drive to a park. Planning India-flavored veg dinner. Trying to do little extras for her while I can. 🧡

Random Fact The odd lines or dots that you might see when looking up in the sky that follow your vision around are “eye floaters” They are distortions in the vitreous humor (the gel inside the eye ball) that are causing the image to distort *between* the lens and the retina. 🏞️:Web MD

Thread about my longtime eyeball friends 👀🩵 /s

So, look carefully at those who oppose sex ed, especially for children.

An important point about evidence-based sex ed is that it gives people of all ages the tools to say “No”to sex they don’t want.

Because you may need some extraordinary beauty right now. www.popsci.com/science/milk...

Stayed at one season of 12 episodes. I see it’s available at different platforms but is being kicked off Netflix by May 31.

Scavengers Reign appreciation post: Ursula wordlessly watching that creature's entire life cycle. Ep.3 "The Wall" #ScavengersReign video clip on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Scavengers...

Just turned into regular rain but Mi Madre’s dog won’t come out from behind the toilet until the thunder stops 🫤

Omg we have immense windy rainfall + hail crashing down here

Point out the fascist, colonizer, or imperialist in history who gained ground and said, “ah. This is enough.”

Cis people: normalize introducing yourself with your pronouns. If only trans and gnc people do it, we're outing ourselves. If we don't, we accept getting misgendered. And when cis people do it, it acclimates other cis people to the practice and makes it safer for trans and gnc people.

Remembered: Was dressed in a black fisherman’s hat, black tights, & my then-fiancé’s jean jacket that went just past my hips. And lugging a crowded backpack. One more incident when I “failed”to appear Harmlessly Womanly Enough.

Yes. If my hair was short & layered again, no doubt my wide shoulders would (again) freak out Certain People watching me use the women’s bathroom.

deepest blue moon blues seeping into crevices an unlikely fuel #vss365 #lunar

The way it always comes back to Reagan.....it also more quietly comes back to Paul Weyrich. fucking Paul Weyrich . He's been dead 18 years, but his fingerprints are still everywhere

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

Reasons to own a cloak of moss: - super stylish - all natural - absorbs rain - good camouflage - can blend in with moss goblins, and start a new life in the old forest as a twig witch or world weary hermit

Modern dance leveling tf UP

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

co-sign

Genuinely frustrated I didn't think about this sooner, but let me send it along in case that's anyone else too

Spring in the face

To be fair, I don't think we're in for a new Covid-like era. BUT the Covid conscious and disabled community were 100% right about how the vast, vast majority of folks have really not been great about the pandemic. Experts say we're fine for now, but this is a warning. www.today.com/health/news/...

Shout out to the #LongCovid & #CovidConscious communities who warned us. They said: -keep masking in public spaces -invest in high quality indoor air filtration -don't declare the pandemic is over prematurely -demand single payer health care The majority of us didn't listen. It's a shame.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Everyone is like "oh you're a poet? You're not working class anymore then you class traitor" like bitch stop doing the work of the powerful for them.

The algorithm has a way of letting these videos find me, and it reminded me of something I said a short while ago. I'm glad it's setting in. And I hope it continues to spread. Organizing will be our lifeline

You know what bothers me every time it comes to mind? The president of the Heritage Foundation & the mastermind of Project 2025 has a Doctorate in history with a specialization in African American studies. His dissertation was on the cultural construction of the enslaved community in Louisiana

The scene when Leeloo gets to the “war” section on her computer-encyclopedia still rips me up