What We’re Reading: April 2024
Beatriz Nascimento, Henry Threadgill, and more!
Author: AGT Admin
What We’re Reading: March 2024
Panashe Chigumadzi, Lewis Gordon, and more!
What We’re Reading: February 2024
Lalita Tademy, J.T. Roane, and more!
What We’re Reading: January 2024
Percival Everett, Halfi Osumare, and more!
Shaking Out the Trauma: Bakari Akinyele on Designing, Creating, and Healing
When you hurt your hand, your body’s natural response is to shake. Because that shaking relieves the trauma of that pain. Within the Movement Series, what I’m exploring now is the healing process. Not focusing on the fact that the hammer hit the hand, but the fact that the hand is now shaking and it’s trying to repair itself. Within the community level, healing [begins with] imagining the part of the healing that has to do with projecting ourselves and prophesying about what the future is gonna look like.
Memory
What we will have to say in order to create a new world cannot be uttered recklessly.
Teach a Man To Fish
He seemed too happy, too full of a jubilation I’d never recognized myself as being capable of experiencing until I finally had photographic evidence
In The Wake of Blue Bone’s Wicked Womb
s Blu Bone’s persona channeling a trickster or indigenous/African deity? Is he pointing to the way the Black body can be twisted and contorted in an (anti)Black world?
Suite in Green, for Elijah McClain
Elijah plucks his violin.
Exit.
memory in movement/the groundings with my mothers
movement is not
always departure
from self