La Marr Jurelle Bruce - AFROMANTIC.BSKY.SOCIAL

I wrote a book for you. I want you to hold it, read it, teach it, feel it, keep it, and pass it on. It's 7 chapters, 100,000 words, 300 some-odd pages, incalculable work + love, and a mighty portion of madness. It's called HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND. Coming this fall.

but also: LOVE is what love looks like in public.

@RuhiSleep @PenguinIndia thank you for showing my work so much love!

@PenguinIndia Currently in my library-one that is not an “art book”. This is so riveting by Prof La Marr Jurelle Bruce @Afromanticist .

What's the most beautiful book cover you've ever seen?

@NotSoAveragJoe Two books immediately come to mind: The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination by Darieck Scott

So much to unpack here. My gut reaction is "Don't kink shame" but its also way past time that we have critical conversations about the relationship between erotic tropes in BDSM, settler colonialism, and enslavement narratives. Anyone know of who is doing this work??

as expected, the court has inverted the 14th. an amendment written explicitly to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy becomes in conservative hands an amendment that says it’s illegal to try to directly ameliorate the conditions of race hierarchy

My beloved friend and brother, Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zoe, is directing a breathtaking production of THE BLUEST EYE (adapted by Lydia Diamond from the novel by Toni Morrison) at Anacostia Playhouse in DC. The play runs through June 25th. For tickets, visit: …eateralliance.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/event…

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit." —Ida B. Wells

Photo Credit: Bob Gruen, 1970

"it goes on, like a river flows and it gets bigger, baby, and heaven knows and it gets sweeter, baby, as it grows."

How stinkin cute are they 🥺

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." —Eartha Kitt Photograph (c) Susanne Schapowalow, 1950

the zesty pirate mustache is back—for a limited time only.

"Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities..." —Sylvia Wynter (Image via the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Last week, I was honored and humbled to deliver the keynote at the @williamandmary Black Alumni Association's Black Graduate Dinner. The title of my remarks: "The Fun Starts Now."

My soul says yes.

The Color Purple (2023) trailer is here. youtu.be/wPwzBUui1GA

The Swiftly Fading Residue of Soon-Forgotten Dreams arrives in about an hour. To join on Zoom, visit eventbrite.com/e/the-swiftly-…

Tomorrow.

TOMORROW The Swiftly Fading Residue of Soon-Forgotten Dreams: On Love & Madness "In love & madness, words fail—but I keep trying. In this talk, I invite you to witness me try out loud." 5/11/23, 5–7pm Schmitt Ctr, DePaul U 2320 N Kenmore Ave Chicago, IL eventbrite.com/e/the-swiftly-…