Three years ago, I participated in a project led by Anaïs Duplan of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies and Katie Parry of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. The project was called Endgame: Black Artists for an Urgent Black Future…
for the love of libraries
been thinking about my love/hate relationship with libraries: a lifelong thing.
my youngblood love of libraries is well-documented in this poem “vines” that i wrote for the opening of the new logan branch of the free library of philadelphia in …
knick knacks: notes on a curatorial practice
also knickknack, nicknack, “a pleasing trifle, toy,” 1570s, a reduplication of knack (n.) “ingenious device, toy, trinket” (1530s), a specialized sense of knack (n.) “stratagem, trick.” (from the Online Etymology Dictionary)
i buy back all the spirits turned into toys:…