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Ushering in the New Black Popstar
By Suffy Baala An infectious melody lingers into the cavernous entrance of your ear canal, a rush of endorphins flood your body as you forget every deep trouble, in that moment the only thing on your mind are elated thoughts pure blissful serenity from the comfort of your bedroom to the warm bodies on a… Read more
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How the Buffy Reboot Comics Reinvented Kendra’s Character
By: Vanessa Maki Regardless of whether you watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer as it aired in the late 90s-2003 or tuned in later in life, there’s no denying it had a lot of impact on horror and pop culture. The series, which was created by Joss Whedon, was about Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a… Read more
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On Queer Palestine and the Intersectional Critique
By Axmed Maxamed I have been wanting for a while now to dedicate one of my instagram-book-posts to Sarah Schulman’s ‘Israel Palestine and the Queer International’ and one to ‘Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique’ by Dr. Sa’ed Atshan. With selected passages from each book, as I usually do, because there is so much… Read more
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FeaturedWhat if?: Imagining Black Cinema Beyond Hollywood’s Trauma Fetish
By JoliAmour DuBose-Morris It took seventeen years for me to pick a favorite film. Up until I was graduating high school, I didn’t have a serious idea of what intrigued me. When you’re fourteen, sure, you get to say High School Musical 3 is your favorite movie (I’m pretty sure that’s what I said) but… Read more
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“Stay Literally Forever Young”: A Conversation with Irma Thomas, the Soul Queen of New Orleans
In an early May phone conversation, Thomas reflected on her legacy, Louisiana, what she’s still longing to do, and her belief that Soul music is not a genre.
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Film Roundup: April
by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson Some films I watched in May that I love and hate, enjoy. Films that were great Spellbound By Jeffrey Blitz This is thrilling. Spelling words in front of people competitively, as a viewer, is so stressful let alone the kids who actually have to compete. Spellbound follows 8 of the kids… Read more
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FeaturedWorld Music for Who: Personal Histories of Non-Western Electronic Synthesis
Jean-Hugues Kabuiku provides an expert analysis on the systemic erasure of non-western electronic histories
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All Eyes On The Margins: The Culture Industry and Labor Relations in East Africa
By Authentically Plastic The past decade has seen a surge of interest in East Africa’s cultural output; much of it on the heels of the Africa Rising narrative that dominated socio-economic discussion about the continent in the early 2010’s. Interest has also come from the sonic mutations that have surfaced in its underground scene. This… Read more
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Film Roundup: March
by Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson I watch a lot of films so I want to pay it forward and give you some of the best ones i’ve seen, if you’ve seen them already then you’re really lucky and if you haven’t then I urge you to indulge. Boogie Nights By Paul Thomas Anderson I adored the… Read more
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How the Archiving of My Family’s History Folded Time and Space For My Own Creative Practice
By Cy X Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. From the church spirituals that I never appreciated growing up to the old school R&B my mom would play when recounting stories of old lovers to the middle school school sanctioned dances that played Pretty Ricky and… Read more
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Clubs and Festivals Are Coming Back, But Where’s the Industry’s Fight Against Racism?
By Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson Last summer the Berlin image of white people partying beneath an “I can’t breathe” sign, George Floyd’s last words before he was killed by a cop, defines so much more than a ‘tone deaf’ reaction to that specific political climate but defines white people’s preference for an abstract engagement with racism,… Read more
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FeaturedTwin flames extinguished: Notes on “Karma & Desire”
thoughts on a short film by Darren Cunningham and Lee Boutte
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How the Black-led Bij1 Party in the Netherlands’ is Making Waves in the Upcoming Election
By Axmed Maxamed I have never been as excited for a general election as I am for this year’s. And many other members of minority groups in the Netherlands feel the same. Finally, we see a chance for a voice in parliament that will truly advocate for us. In the Netherlands we have a multi-party… Read more
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Sanctuary: Exploring Artist’s Work Spaces in Brooklyn
Essay and Photography by Gregory Harris Photographer Gregory Harris gives us a window into Ryan Davis, Massah Fofana, and RaFia Santana‘s work spaces and how they’ve made their own Brooklyn sanctuaries during this turbulent year. By some measures, New York City is the most widely-known urban space in our history. No other city has been… Read more
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How History, Wealth and Nepotism Determine Access in South Africa’s Segregated Dance Music Industry
By Mandy Alexander What started out as an investigation to find out how access to music equipment may hinder growth amongst marginalised DJs and music producers, resulted in me discovering how South Africa’s cities’ segregation plays a massive role in how different genres of music are heard. The past and current spatial planning undoubtedly influence… Read more
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FeaturedRunning Out of Space: Drexciya, Boards of Canada, and the Post 9/11 Digital Psychedelia You Haven’t Processed Yet
Part I: 20th Century Blur, Millennial Corruption We’re still grappling with the ways September 11th 2001 changed our lives. It was the end of the myth of America, even when that myth was only for a few. This day, if you had to pick one, ended our prior perceived notion of formality and decorum. Before,… Read more
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FeaturedLove and Theft: How the Appropriation of Negro Spirituals Taught America How to Sanitize Black Music
Radical historian S. David, investigates the cruelty of what’s lost in the translation of black expression into white notation
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Fighting to Love Yourself in a World That Doesn’t Want You To
By Kuchenga Writer Kuchenga reflects on her personal challenges as a dark-skinned black woman to love herself in a world confronted with images and critics that make that challenge even harder I have been on a representation high recently. I subscribed to The Underbelly App and have been getting acquainted with my new yoga mat… Read more
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FeaturedSouthern Electronics Gallery
proportionality relating the progression of technology with Black Atlantic culture as praxis
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FeaturedTechno is Black, Tekkno is German
A preview of Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information, 2021)
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A Conversation on the Bleaching of Techno: How Appropriation is Normalized and Preserved
This Conversation between Axmed Maxamed and Mathys Rennela took place in November 2019 As friends who have known each other for years and bonded through electronic music, We have had many conversations about our experiences with racism in Amsterdam’s dance music scene, and decided recently to write down some of our most regular grievances. The… Read more
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