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After a long hiatus due to my own grief, the dead zine is back baby! In this last issue of Season 1 on food, I wrote about the last meal my Dad ate before his death, using meals as rituals for endings and the last meals of those incarcerated on death row. thedeadzine.beehiiv.com/p/the-grief-...

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Going into the weekend thinking about systems for civilization www.wrecka.ge/against-the-...

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Survey for Black healing arts practitioners, artists, scholars, and storytellers who are engaged in community death care in Canada forms.gle/AaGWCzzNoMAU...

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"...the tiny low-lying island of Gardi Sugdub, is the first in Panama to be relocated because of climate change. The government has said they face 'imminent risk' from rising sea levels, which scientists say are likely to render the island uninhabitable by 2050."

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Arman, original lithograph, Kifwebe masks, Songye tradition, African masks from Congo, traditional arts, Central Africa, polychrome decor #art #decor #home #artforsale #artists #artworks #ArtBoost #viral #lithographs #walldecor #artprints #wiseshopper www.etsy.com/listing/1842...

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“Home to Harlem was the first bestselling novel by a Black author in the United States, propelled by white readers fascinated by Harlem’s famed nightlife.” Belinda Edmondson on displacement and belonging in Claude McKay’s landmark novel.

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Poem: "Kanye West is Not Picasso" by Leonard Cohen via @literaryhub.bsky.social

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The Parkdale Residents’ Association is partnering with BAND Gallery for a Black History Walking Tour of Parkdale Saturday, 22 Feb, 2 - 3PM Meet inside the Parkdale Public Library (Queen St West at Cowan Ave.) #Toronto #BlackHistoryMonth

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Another life to be remembered in this time:

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To kick off Black History Month, one of my absolutely favorite works by artist Jacob Lawrence: Sidewalk Drawings, 1943, which underscores the complexity of Lawrence's singular vision in how it links the joy & exuberance of children drawing with difficult subject matter like war & violence

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Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Festive Bird, 1970 #womensart

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Sonia Boyce’s interest in multi-sensory art and Black women artists is evident in her explosive show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which evokes Afrofuturist and dance club aesthetics.

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Paper Dolls for a Post-Columbian World, artist audio statement www.moma.org/audio/playli...

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Trade Canoe: A Western Fantasy 2015, lithograph, 18" × 30"

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Trade Canoe: Don Quixote in Sumeria 2005, oil on canvas, 60" x 200" 4 panels

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A champion of contemporary Indigenous artists, prolific creator across a range of media and relentless critic of dominant US ideology, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith received institutional support and success late in life www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/28/j...

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith War Horse in Babylon, 2005 oil on canvas, 60" x 100" diptych

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, trailblazing Native American artist and activist, 85 news.artnet.com/art-world/ja...

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A new Maggie Helwig book is a good thing, though wish she didn’t have to write this. A vital, righteous voice.

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#artsky

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Image 1: Abuelo-Estrella, an elder from Cerro de la Garza; Image 2: ‘The Space Between Us.’ 📷 © Yael Martínez | Leica Gallery, Mexico City.

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Portland Art Museum to open gallery focused on Black art

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This is the intro to my new creative project on Black loneliness called the black alone. In this essay, I contextualize my own loneliness with that of a wider phenomena within Black folk. I’d love to hear your thoughts as (and after!) you read. theblackalone.substack.com/p/hello-im-l...

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Dealing with the ramifications of all I had zero capability to face or manage last year, the first full year after my Mom's death. The expectation to maintain "productivity" while processing profound loss is fundamentally inhumane. I will scream this forever.

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Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

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