Sojourners for Justice Press July newsletter is here. Read about Black Reading Room and more: 1wr6j.mjt.lu/nl3/Ghi3V_EB...
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A form of success in the arts that should be taught more widely is to live and make and convey what you are about in such a way that people only reach out to invite you to be part of things that are meaningful and interesting. No one achieves this 100% but it's wonderful to avoid a lot of bullshit.
Real "me sowing/me reaping" hours at the Revise And Self Publish A Book Factory
Join @netabomani.com and Gabrielle tomorrow at CARA for an intergenerational poetry event. Free and open to the public. Starts at 4 pm. www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...
Center for Art, Research and Alliances / CARA
The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) is an emergent arts nonprofit, research center, and publisher that aims to expand public discourses and historical records to reflect art’s abundant p...
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IC cofounder Mariame Kaba & abolitionist organizer/educator Neta Bomani will explore how they engaged archival records to illuminate moments from the life of freedom fighter & revolutionary Joan Bird. Come through! 📍 NYC 🗓️ Saturday, July 11 🕰️ 4pm ✍️ bit.ly/FragmentedEncounters
If people read Black abolitionists and Black feminists more carefully and with the rigor that afford to white male theorists, then lots more things be might be clearer to them.
I just attended a really amazing virtual workshop on #zine making for the web by Cree Renee (wholeheartednwholeso.me) and @netabomani.com (netabomani.com) as part of the #BlackZineFair. Here are some of the cool #webzines and resources they shared:
Late to read this ✨ piece by @prisonculture.bsky.social + @netabomani.com abt the history of Black publishing in NYC — and the vibrancy manifested @ the recent Black Zine Fair. I was always fascinated by the publishing history of the NewSchool bldg where I worked for over a decade :)
The City in Our Hands - Urban Omnibus
At the Black Zine Fair, now in its third year, the power of DIY publications as movement- and city-building technologies is on display.
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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.My original office was in the “secret 13th floor” of this building: “constructed in 1912 for publisher George Plimpton. It housed an extraordinary array of civil rights + social justice organizations (incldg the NAACP + ACLU!), philanthropic groups [and] publishers” (incldg Crisis magazine!)
A lot of happening in July. No rest for the weary. Join @netabomani.com and me on July 11: www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...
June Jordan said, "Activism... propels you forward, from one hard hour to the next. Believing that you can do something to make things better, you do something, rather than nothing... You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding.“
tuesday did an amazing job handing out candy for her second halloween 🎃🐝
Neta Bomani's 100 days of zine studies and experiments is one of the more inspiring self-publishing projects I've seen in quite a few years. If you don't know it, it's excellent: www.are.na/neta-bomani/...
100 days of zines | Are.na
100 days of zine studies and experiments http://instagram.com/netazines http://zines.netabomani.com
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I worked with @cbo.bsky.social on a piece about the return of zines. (Huge thank you to @prisonculture.bsky.social for insight on this one.) www.wired.com/story/zines-...
Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.
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personally, im really good at what i do, professionally, and on the rare occasions im allowed to actually do what i do best, it's generally pretty cool
that moment when you get home and you think to put a record on, but they’re already DJing for you outside