Happy U.S. Pub Day to The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power! 🧡🖤🧡🖤 My book is officially out stateside. 📙📙📙 Thank you to all involved and everyone who’s shown love 🫶🏿

SOME RARE GOOD NEWS: the Georgia Attorney general is dropping the money laundering charges in the STop Cop City RICO case against the Atlanta Solidarity Fund members –– they were forced to do so, because they are bogus charges, as we've said from the start!!

We, the editors of Ultra Dogme, will not be covering the New York Film Festival this year, in accordance with the boycott of its parent organization, Lincoln Center, until it drops its zionist funders.

Excited to mark the release of The African Gaze at Metrograph this Saturday, September 21 🧡📙🖤 (metrograph.com/film/?vista_fi…) Here’s how it’s gonna go down:

First screening: Med Hondo’s Sarraounia (1986) at 3:40pm. This is a rare opportunity to catch this gem because it’s not screened often! After the screening, copies of The African Gaze will be available for purchase and I’ll be doing a signing in the lobby. metrograph.com/film/?vista_fi…

Second screening: a Mambéty Double of his two shorts: Le Franc + The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (1994) at 6:20pm. Two classics from Djibril Diop Mambéty made toward the end of his life. Join yasmina and I for post-screening Q&A! metrograph.com/film/?vista_fi…

I’m not arguing with people about the word “terrorism” in 2024. To require reality be validated by the opposition before we can act accordingly is not a win it’s a cyclic humiliation that reifies the same structures used against us.

remotely detonated pagers. casually maiming 4000. and you are telling me with a straight face our best hope to escape the horror is to elect the administration providing clearance for said horror. there are no words

It won’t be forgotten that the western media’s response to the maiming of thousands of people is how “amazing” Israel’s tech is.

“but again, what is an honest election after the fact of monopoly capital?” (george jackson, blood in my eye)

Thank you Nikki Giovanni 'Then I awoke and dug that if I dream natural dreams, of being a natural woman, of doing what a woman does when she is natural, I would have a revolution.' And did.

“There is a real possibility that I can be the first person in my family to be free.” Thinking of this passage from Gemini, Giovanni’s autobiography, published in 1971.

“tell no lies, claim no easy victories” i wrote about mati diop’s haunting, sculpted documentary “dahomey” + the seductive illusions of “decolonizing colonization” + the relay of an inherited, intergenerational struggle for self-determination thebaffler.com/latest/statues…

“BLACKOUT 1973” January 10-20th Anthology Film Archives an oppositional Black lens on the politics and culture of an earlier period of fractures & upheavals Sunday Jan 12th 7:30pm Cuban + Brazilian + Ethiopian-American shorts with post-screening conversation with Nzingha Kendall & me

“THE BLACK WORKER” extended program notes in Notebook: a little history, a little context and a few takes on what continues to be a cultural and political battleground starting TODAY BAM Film and screening until feb 13 mubi.com/en/notebook/po…