Sarah Jane Cervenak

@sjcerv.bsky.social

Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’ Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’ Views my own

On James Baldwin: "The nearly metaphorical errancy of "that" is there to let us know he doesn't merely look at us. He looks on us, and in that burden, we are covered and unenframed."- Fred Moten, All That Beauty

On James Baldwin: "The nearly metaphorical errancy of "that" is there to let us know he doesn't merely look at us. He looks on us, and in that burden, we are covered and unenframed."- Fred Moten, All That Beauty

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

"We follow each other into the future, as if now, at the last moment we try to memorize the face a movement we will never want to forget. As if everything in the world is a history of ice."- Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

"We follow each other into the future, as if now, at the last moment we try to memorize the face a movement we will never want to forget. As if everything in the world is a history of ice."- Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter