Category: culture

• 27 February 2023

  Gratitude February 2023

  South Africa Owing to my humble service on the Whose Knowledge? board, I was graciously invited by the team to join them on their annual retreat in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa. It was a beautiful 10 days and I certainly hope it will not be my last time in South Africa. I have so much more…
• 10 August 2022

  Gratitude August 2022

  Speaking Brazilian I have been studying Brazilian Portuguese for over 2.5 years now, but until a few months ago I was mostly using apps and self-study via conversations, podcasts, and a few movies. I discovered Virginia Langhammer while cruising YouTube and appreciated all the free instruction and materials she was offering for beginners; so I…
• 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…