
Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present
“Seeking liberation is rebellious.” —Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories Last summer, I was on the train with the artist and curator…
Read More“Seeking liberation is rebellious.” —Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories Last summer, I was on the train with the artist and curator…
Read More“We know how much of sexuality there is in all cruelties, tortures, beatings.” —Frantz Fanon “Abolition requires we change one thing: everything.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore I…
Read MoreTilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do…
Read MoreAt three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign hanging in a pet store above the…
Read MoreWhen I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the…
Read MoreA soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of…
Read MoreSomewhere in the stratosphere between Ohio and New York, cumbersome bodies bumping against pockets of turbulence, my mind turned to the title of Lucie…
Read MoreThe late artist Carole Caroompas was once asked why rock and roll provided such generative source material for her paintings and performance art. Caroompas…
Read MoreI sat in the last row of the bus, watching the scenery dissolve into dusk, each passing moment echoing the temporal experience I’d just…
Read MoreNona Faustine, who passed away this March, was magnificent—a valiant beacon of light in a world often cruel and dismissive of Black women’s histories…
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