Author: no e in hart

N.B. even older news...submitted at 10:24pm on 3/13 This may seem out of left field, but reading Darnell Hunt’s “Screening the Los Angeles “riots”: Race, seeing, and resistance” made me think about The Cosby Show. Watching various documentaries and retrospectives on the LA riots, I remembered hearing that Tom Bradley, then-mayor of Los Angeles urged … Continue reading Airing Cosby While They Screened the LA riots

Listening to Kristen talk about being a young adult in the aftermath of 9/11 made me think about my own experience. I had just started my senior year of high school, so I was certainly old enough to fully register what was happening, and can use that moment as a marker of “before and after”. … Continue reading 9/11 and Premediated Normalcy

I’ve been thinking about Edouard Glissant’s theory about oppressed peoples’ “right to opacity”, black performance as commodity, and how these points are in conversation with Aria Dean’s piece about black social media. Dean writes: “One of the greatest tasks of blackness as collective being has been to hold itself together in something like cohesion, to … Continue reading Black Twitter and Opacity

NB: old news Aveline didn’t need the “lady” costume to seduce men. That was my first thought while reading Soraya Murray’s chapter about Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. Murray says that “Aveline’s multiple identifications as woman and Afro-French American, and again as what would then be called a product of ‘miscegenation’, present a case in which … Continue reading Thoughts on Aveline and World-Building