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How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind pages 21-35

Squeeee we finished!!! I have finally (!!!) finished my reading of the first chapter of How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind by Dr. La Marr Jurelle Bruce and let me tell you, reading it took a bite out of me. It was so difficult and so worth it. Cannot recommend the full text enough!! As per my agreement with Dr. Bruce, this audio reading is only avail…

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to Columbia’s undergraduates (and students everywhere): HOLD THE LINE.

This is a letter specifically to the college student dissenters. It was nearly entitled: Grief is the most political thing that has ever happened to me. And you can listen to it right here. I was seventeen years old when I arrived at Northwestern University to attend for my undergraduat…

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The Case for a Global Strike

A letter written for Bisan, circulated to my constituency: Peace. I write to you from the floor of my bedroom in Sierra Leone. Two days ago, Iran launched successful counter-attacks against the apartheid regime occupying the land of Palestine, currently known as Israel (which bombed their embassy in an open act of war on April 1). I can hear constructio…

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the role of the artist is to load the gun.

an essay nearly entitled, “the orange trees teach me art-making.” introductions I write to you in a moment from 2024, where the sounds of the machine, business as usual, keep me up at night (words of @ivi_with_art on instagram). This loop of time, existing at once as a…

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“ismatu, how are you doing?”

^^the video i reference in the mini podcast. Thank you Rickey Thompson!! you icon! Highlights: life is quite beautiful and people die and it’s tough to feel both the things at once. I am here at the first blooming of my first life’s work!! Life is marvelous

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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind (pg. 11-22)

Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly. Author: La Marr Jurelle Bruce Hyperlinked above is their academia.edu page, which has a lovely biography and two more brilliant articles available to read. Remember that orienting oneself with the author (

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aqotp: how to take breaks at the end of the world

i am in my pajamas. my pen feels like it has ice in it so enjoy my attempts at defrosting. a quarry of thoughtless ponderments entitled: how to take breaks at the end of the (or, at least, my) world aQoTP is a long-standing tradition in my personal journaling. i write out thoughts rolling about my head like loose marbles; sometimes they thread together. a…

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How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind by Dr. La Marr Jurelle Bruce (pg. 1-11)

Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly. Author: La Marr Jurelle Bruce Hyperlinked above is their academia.edu page, which has a lovely biography and two more brilliant articles available to read. Remember that orienting oneself with the author (

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Podcast duration: 36.4 minutes

toni cade bambara: i start with the recognition that we are at war

captioned live! we took one hour to read four paragraphs together. excerpt from: Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara, edited by Thabiti Lewis. I don’t usually save my lives because (1) that requires editing and I am already drowning in administrative work and (2) I enjoy existing in temporal space for only a moment in time, rather than being replayable…

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you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

introduction: We begin with a morsel from Toni Morrison, great Black American author: The point is so that it doesn't look like it's sweating, like that effort, you see? It must appear effortless! No matter what the style, it must have that. I mean, the seams can't show.

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