This is a non-complete list of the (brilliant!) things I’ve noted in my phone while riding the subway. Rather then let them wither and die, I will at least present them as a litany, and perhaps be inspired to expand. Drum roll please to the amazing blog posts that I will someday write… On the …
Black Panther’s plot, which features a battle for a new king in the mythical African nation of Wakanda, is a discursive on the nature of power itself. Ultimately, the film’s vision of black power rests as much on wireless technology and gold sneakers as it does on Pedagogy of the Oppressed inspired critiques of leaderships, …
3/5th’s of the Minnesota’s manslaughter law that acquitted Officer Yanez of the murder of Philando Castile referred to animals. In the summer of 2017, Officer Jeronimo Yanez was cleared of all charges in the hotly contested murder of Philando Castile, a black man whose death was livestreamed on Facebook after he was shot seven times …
“He quit his job, married his girl, moved to Sri Lanka, and made this masterpiece,” posted Miguel on his new fiance’s wall, followed by last week’s Vimeo staff pick “Loving Lanka.” The short film by Sebastian Linda is all HD cameras and epic shots, love amongst the mountains, beautiful white people in a colorful brown …
I’m sitting on the BART in San Francisco and there are three 20-something-year-olds standing in front of me. One is Black, one is Asian, one is White. One is reading a book on startups, the other listening to his iPod, and the other typing on his iPhone. They are wearing matching shorts: one in salmon, …
Last Sunday, the following three things happened to me: 1:35 am – I led an unplanned rebellion of women into a men’s urinal. 10 am – 7:30 pm – I binge-watched “Wild, Wild, Country.” 9 pm – I watched Stormy Daniels describe spanking the President on TV. Halfway through the Daniels interview, I realized it …
“But…What do you want?” Marc from Florida with the big brown eyes asks again, leaning in with practiced authenticity. Three days ago, I wrote a blog post about my bicycle getting stolen. The next day Allison Klein from the Washington Post called and asked if she could publish it. Today, Marc from Florida (who happens …