#the coolest marvels in the underspace

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Ayo Edebiri by Myesha Evon Gardner

#Ayo Edebiri #Myesha Evon Gardner #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #texture: a feeling #light and such #beholding Black intimate geographies #embodiment as grace #there is only wonder in the softness of joy #the coolest marvels in the underspace #and against the haze of the afternoon the softest light

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Rico Nasty by Natasha Tendai

#Nastaha Tendai #Rico Nasty #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #light and such #texture: a feeling #ready for a close up #embodiment as grace #here is melancholy #beholding Black intimate geographies #the coolest marvels in the underspace

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Kelela by Aidan Zamiri

#Kelela #Aidan Zamiri #visual art: when artists of color create #light and such #color theory #texture: a feeling #the coolest marvels in the underspace #embodiment as grace #strobe light beauty #luminous beauty #daring beauty

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Rochelle Jordan by Nicholas Needham

#Nicholas Needham #Rochelle Jordan #visual art #light and such #texture: a feeling #embodiment as grace #ready for a close up #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #the coolest marvels in the underspace

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Precious Lee by Tyler Mitchell

#Tyler Mitchell #Precious Lee #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #texture: a feeling #embodiment as grace #Black geographies #pouring liquidity and grace #the coolest marvels in the underspace #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #light and such

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#Niecy Nash #Sandra Bland #Glenda Cleveland #Breana Taylor #the Black fugitive as the shape of mystery #care is the sweetest touch #the coolest marvels in the underspace #Black feminism #Blackness and its possibilities #the Black gleam of refusal #we bow our heads in worship

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SHYGIRL by Eric Johnson

#Eric Johnson #SHYGIRL #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #light and such #texture: a feeling #nude space #ready for a close up #embodiment as grace #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #the coolest marvels in the underspace

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Kelela by Myles Loftin

#Kelela #Myles Loftin #visual art: when Black artists create #texture: a feeling #color theory #light and such #beholding Black intimate geographies #Black women at rest #the coolest marvels in the underspace #embodiment as grace

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Kelela by Jai Lennard

#Jai Lennard #Kelela #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #texture: a feeling #light and such #embodiment as grace #pouring liquidity and grace #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #the coolest marvels in the underspace #and against the haze of the afternoon the softest light

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Everytime a hot comb simmers we dread. We get hurt so often we think it's a nickname. When we say we remember we mean hurricane, hunt meadow, lust, duty, escape, settle, mourn, birch, baptism, tithe, kneel, Sphinx, throat, offering, animal, deadwood. We get hurt so often we never run. Every time we lick our lips the day obeys and repents. Glory glory hallelujah. Hot comb on the stove. Train tracks in the weeds.

Black Women for Beginners Pt. 1 by Morgan Parker

#Morgan Parker #Magical Negro #misogynoir #transmisogynoir #surrounded by vulnerability #the coolest marvels in the underspace #and against the haze of the afternoon the softest light #here is melancholy

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How I love us, Black unicorns, I love the youth of our adaptation. I love every way our bodies tell us not to blend in to what surrounds us, but instead to break through with brave sensitivity. Though we are hunted for exactly what makes us strong, may we always be embraced in the words of the Lorde. May we ever attune ourselves and support each other in this breakthrough. I have always believed in us.

from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

#Alexis Pauline Gumbs #Black feminism #Audre Lorde #the coolest marvels in the underspace #the Black fugitive as the shape of mystery

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I am interested in poetic formulations such as "we are the ones we have been waiting for" which collapse the distance between this present and a future, challenge the confidence with which narratives of reproductive futurity are advanced, introduce risk and uncertainty into present speculations about futures, and urge those of use still here now to action without guarantees.

from Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling

#Kara Keeling #Black radical theory #and against the haze of the afternoon the softest light #the coolest marvels in the underspace

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Adrienne Raquel, Eye to Eye, from Onyx

Adrienne Raquel, In Her Element, from Onyx

Adrienne Raquel, Blu Bills, from Onyx

#Adrienne Raquel #visual art: when Black artists create #light and such #color theory #texture: a feeling #beholding Black intimate geographies #pouring liquidity and grace #embodiment as grace #real nude hours #ready for a close up #the coolest marvels in the underspace #and against the haze of the afternoon the softest light #witnessing the sublime #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #Onyx #Houston

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Rico Nasty by Zhamak Fullad

#Zhamak Fullad #Rico Nasty #visual art: when artists of color create #color theory #light and such #texture: a feeling #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #embodiment as grace #the coolest marvels in the underspace

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Janelle Monáe by Justin French

#Janelle Monae #Justin French #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #light and such #theory of bodies in space #ecstasy as honey drying on soft skin #embodiment as grace #pouring liquidity and grace #ethereal beauty #fun beauty #the coolest marvels in the underspace #and against the haze of the afternoon the softest light #real nude hours #a sense of the Black uncanny and the Black fantastic

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Willow Smith by Adrienne Raquel

#Adrienne Raquel #Willow #visual art: when Black artists create #color theory #light and such #texture: a feeling #embodiment as grace #theory of bodies in space #the coolest marvels in the underspace