Tag: James Baldwin

• Conversations: For Kia and Steven

  

  As the co-director of a CUNY undergraduate program, I have been fortunate to meet some amazing young people, who teach and inspire me. I had a conversation with two of them, Kia and Steven along with my director Lauren (aka L-Boogie/Boogs). At one point, Steven confesses that he appreciates his conversations with Kia because it…

  kashema

  July 25, 2020

  observations

  audre lorde, conversations, j. cole, James Baldwin, Kia, no name, race, stereotypes, Steven

• Flesh and Fragment: A Theory

  Overview This project was inspired by and drew from Alexander Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus, Hortense J. Spillers “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” (1987) and Sylvia Wynter’s “‘No Humans Involved’: An Open Letter to My Colleagues” (1994) in connection to the Black woman’s body through time and space in conjunction with “Fragment of a Queen’s…

  kashema

  March 1, 2019

  observations

  Alexander weheliye, beverly bond, Beyonce, black girls rock!, black panther, black women, fragment of a queens face, future, habeas viscus, hiergyphs, hortense spillers, James Baldwin, jasper, jay-z, kashema, killmonger, metropolitan museum of art, my favorite girl, no humans involved, past, present, Sarah baartman, sesame street, truth