Category: culture

31 May 2022

Gratitude May 2022

I don’t think I have done one of these in a while. Long overdue! Marc Rebillet with Reggie Watts & (THE QUEEN) Erykah Badu Every once in a while the algo gods smile on you and deliver something to you that you would’ve never found yourself. I had no idea who Marc Rebillet was a […]
22 November 2021

Gratitude – November 2021

A great many lovely things happened in my birthday month. Here are some of the best. Love Life Season 2 I totally enjoyed season 1 of Love Life on HBO, so I was really happy when I saw that it returned this year with William Jackson Harper (of The Good Place!) as its star. It […]
13 May 2021

In Plain Sight

I’ve been really into James Scott (see: Seeing Like A State and Two Cheers For Anarchism) and Anna Tsing (see: The Mushroom At The End of The World and On NonScalability) for some time, and I recently got hip to this amazing artist Kenya Robinson (https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/kenya-robinson). The thing she said on that podcast was so […]
11 April 2021

Dolemite Is My Name I used to watch Dolemite movies in college as a late night goof with friends. I never knew much about the backstory of the star Rudy Ray Moore and I figured there wasn’t much to what he’d pulled together. So when Eddie Murphy came out with Dolemite Is Ny Name on […]
11 January 2021

Everything Is About Time

I feel like everywhere I turn people are talking about time. Here are a few recent references AmarElo This documentary was so gorgeous. It opened with the saying, “Eshu threw a stone today that hit a bird yesterday.” Emma Dabiri – Don’t Touch My Hair The weaving that occurs in the braided hairstyles, the aspects […]
1 December 2019

Gratitude – December 2019

I can’t believe the year is almost over. What a whirlwind it has been! Before it come to a close, here is some stuff that has given me life in the last month or so…. Interview on Pleasure Activism with adrienne maree and autumn brown I don’t even know where to start. adrienne maree brown […]
24 August 2019

Gratitude: August 2019

Before the month is out, I just want to share a few things that gave me life as of late. The Last Black Man In San Francisco This movie was stunningly beautiful. When I saw the trailer I thought it was going to be sort of the same thing as Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy […]
30 January 2019

Gratitude: January 2019

Just sharing one of the things that lifted my spirits this month…. Jeremy Dutcher is a classically-trained queer Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, performer and activist. He is a member of the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) band of the Tobique First Nation in North-West New Brunswick, and after doing a research project exploring old wax cylinder recordings […]
27 December 2018

Gratitude: December 2018

The last few months have been tricky for me. In some ways they’ve been super fulfilling and in others they have been exceedingly frustrating. But through it all I’ve been grateful for my family, friends, comrades, and even strangers who’ve been eager to grab coffee or lunch and talk, offer help, or just join me […]
13 November 2018

Angélique Kidjo sings Blewu in front of world leaders for Armistice Day

I was exceedingly proud to receive this video of Angelique Kidjo singing this song in Ewe (my family’s language!!) to world heads of states as part of the Armistice Day Celebration. May the spirits of the ancestors do their best on this lot. Ay yi yi. Here are the lyrics in English and then below […]