#lose your mother

[altrbody]

"I walked along with the lingering thought that I knew nothing about the history of my late father and the lineage of my black ancestors; my ancestral memory felt akin to the iridescent surface of a bubble, like a feeling of loss upon awakening from a dream impossible for me to recall.

This series feels like the abstract idea that I have of myself, the acceptance that forgetting is also a starting point and a fleeting, necessary memory. Sama Guent Guii, in which my memory is a dream.

We are never the same when we wake up.

I have to think about this more...I see in me, deep within me, the traces of my ancestors. I am the past that resurfaces. A past that cannot be destroyed, nor diminished. I am the sedimentary rock of this fossilized past, the trace of living organisms...abstract in sensation...in reverie...

Where am I from? Who am I?

I am the past which reappears

I am what is transformed by their memories and my memories

I am these black bodies that I do not recognize

I am this blur

I am made of memory and oblivion

I am this monument of nature, this being that is continually being reborn

This other, who sees themselves as the other."

--Mame-Diarra Niang

[dmdunamancer]

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

"Artist Ayana V. Jackson creates an undersea realm honoring those who jumped or were thrown overboard during the trans-Atlantic slave trade." (Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023)

Where There Is No Origin But Memory I

The Self-Forgetfulness of Belonging Will Never Be Mine I

Consider the Sky and the Sea

Some People Have Spiritual Eyes II (featuring the dress which also appears as "Use the Stars to Fix a Celestial Navigation Point," with materials including Ghanaian currency, paste, cotton, raffia reed fans)

When the Spirit of Kalunda Comes So Does Kianda

Some People Have Spiritual Eyes I

Reliquary: The Sea Has Nothing to Offer but a Well-Executed Grave

It is Only When You Lose Your Mother That She Becomes Myth

I Summon the Voice from the Deep I

[images from the official exhibition website]

Also -- for those interested, many of these garments and models appear in video-works in collaboration with other artists! Very cool.

[endlessandrea]

"Where do you see the new book fit into the trajectory of your life’s work? I think I remain obsessed with the same themes. Each time, I think I am writing a different book, but I am wrestling with the same core set of issues. Wayward Lives is a different kind of formal experiment than Lose Your Mother, but it too is concerned with the form adequate to conveying the story of these unknown and anonymous radicals. Like Scenes of Subjection, it too considers the ways that forums of violence and dispossession yield other kinds of social formations, and the other set of possibilities that might and do reside in these formations, when we’re not all trying to be a subject, or a Mrs. I think that there’s a critical continuity in terms of the issues that concern me, and I think an ongoing set of formal questions."

[autismmydearwatson]

Every time I watch Dune I forget about it but I'm foaming at the mouth over how Paul has a vision of himself as a powerful, respected, divine figure with millions worshipping him and he just says "Somebody help me"

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist�� era.

[flovoid]

Fed love from silver spoons, reasons to be grateful… 🥄ᯓ★

[trek-tracks]

Vulcan's hottest punk band is Kolinahrsty, with their hit single "I Purged All Of My Emotions To Piss Off My Dad"

[alicentsaegon]

The Marriage of Aegon III and Jaehaera Targaryen.

They are so Henry VII Elizabeth of York coded...

[m3tth4ws]

[gothsuguru]

and when i eventually deactivate 🤭

[shiamiko]

RidoAce Week 2024 - Masquerade | Puppets

"Sie hielten mich an Drähten fest, als Puppe, die man tanzen lässt. Doch ich werd' keine Marionette sein!" (Elizabeth the Musical)

(Rough translation: „they kept me bound on strings as a puppet that was made to dance but I will not be a marionette“)

[hannahvardit]

The exact moment that Plas and Woozy meet.

Context really doesn't change much here. You'd think it would. But it really doesn't.

[herssian]

silent skies

[moonpie2405]

The fact that Chise's deliberate choice to spare the mother werewolf in the shortcut ended up with innocent homeless people dying so that she could access the path again, and to drag Philomela away at Lizbeth's bidding of all things too... Does she even know this happened 😬

Like... Chise paid the price for the werewolves' passing as well instead of making them the price for Lucy and Seth to pass. She even paid it in sheep, absolutely refusing to give the guards human meat. But humans were sacrificed in the end anyway, first by that same werewolf as the price, and then by Chise who, in pursuing Philomela, caused a bloodbath at the very mansion the werewolf brought her to.

[drearyrie]

RA MIRAN’S ACTING 😭‼️‼️‼️ WHAT THE HELLLLLLLL

Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born E11

[rotisseries]

realizing so much of jinx's s2 storyline is being forced to speedrun a mile in vi's shoes. cackling