Bee Quammie

@beequammie.blacksky.app

Multimedia storyteller | Duppy conqueror | A special occasion and a small axe 🇯🇲🇨🇦 | Book: THE BOOK OF POSSIBILITIES (Penguin Canada, 2025) | Newsletter: VIVRANT (via beequammie.com)

Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.

Over the past few weeks, I've been getting intern instructor hours teaching Pilates to kids, teens, and adults at a local dance studio. I finished my last class with the kids by leading the class, then letting them play in some of my old Carnival pieces and teaching them a Jamaican folk dance ❤️

Bee in a dance studio holding a Pilates mat. On the floor is a basket of Carnival headpiece, a water bottle, a mat, and a notebook.

Got my life to some good good soca and Mighty Crown dubplates last night I was definitely in my happy place (But next year has to see me playing mas in somebody island because body needs to be in some feathers)

I haven't seen it anywhere today, so I guess ill bring it up. It was 10 years ago today that Baltimore police murdered 23yr old Korryn Gaines and also shot her young son, who survived. Names like Korryn Gaines are why the #SayHerName movement began, as Black women's names are often forgotten

Then 23 year old Korryn Gaines and her young son taking a selfie in the car

No Caribana parade for me today because it's my daughter's birthday, but how serendipitous that this celebration of rebellion and revolution lands on Emancipation Day! A quick thread:

The way this lady waxed my coochie, you'd think she was Botticelli working on The Birth of Venus. When I say attention to detail?!?!? It's like mama knew I have a big weekend planned

Rick Ross looking coy

August 1 is a big day for me personally, but it's also Emancipation Day. This marks the day when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect in 1834. You might read that this is the day over 800K enslaved Black people were freed across the British Empire and its colonies, but that's not true.

this is absolutely true. people don't see beyond actors. they don't realize that regular degular people bring them tv and film. when you kill an industry, whether it's hollywood or the government, you kill everything around it. i wish people would THINK.

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

In my reading for this week, Chani Nicholas said (I'm paraphrasing) "visibility makes you vulnerable, but hiding makes vulnerable in other ways, too" and I've been thinking about that all week.

"Through my art, I feel like I’ve been telling the story of my life. Of being a woman, being Black, and being an artist. Being any of those three things isn’t easy these days. I’m fortunate that I’m still able to do what I love to do," Betye Saar. www.forbes.com/sites/domini...

Prolific Artist, Betye Saar Reflects On Her Legacy And Latest Hammer Museum Honor Ahead Of 100th Birthday

On May 2nd, the Hammer Museum at UCLA welcomed cultural leaders, artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts at the 21st annual Gala in the Garden. During the evening, trailblazing artist Betye Saar ...

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