Tales from the Blacademy

15 Photos of Samira Wiley that’ll brighten your day.

“An awakening sense of the awesome power of the black imagination: to protect, to create, to destroy, to propel ourselves towards what poet Elizabeth Alexander describes as “a metaphysical space beyond the black public everyday toward power and wild imagination.”

The opportunity to make sense of the nonsense that regularly—and sometimes violently—accents black life.

The electric feeling that Mundane Afrofuturism is the ultimate laboratory for worldbuilding outside of imperialist, capitalist, white patriarchy.

the tumblrization of everyday life —–> glorification of the reactive affects

in some cases, the fetishization of powerlessness

there is nothing “wrong” with a politics of complaint

but there are several risks

like developing a dependent relationship with “the enemy”

politically neutralizing oneself by dumping all of one’s subversive energies into meaningless channels

or reifying one’s powerlessness by identifying with it

because it makes one virtuous

complaint becomes a form of subcultural capital

a way to morally purify oneself

as a “queer woman of color” i know that the world is hostile to my existence

but it is not an indication of my “goodness”

i may frame it this way to cope with my position

but developing a morality out of not having power just reinforces my powerlessness

i am fine with expressions of impotence and weakness

and all the things that people do because they don’t have power

but i want real strategies for transmogrifying weakness into power

not by denying or “overcoming” weakness, but adopting a certain attitude toward it

I took a slight look back on my night guardian sisters “humanoid” form and really wanted to redo them a bit, even thought it’s only been two or three months (and chances are they’ll probably change two or three months further from now, but)

For her birthday invitations, oceansofkubrick make this cool AoU/comedy crossover fanart! It’s definitely the best thing I’ve pulled out of my mailbox in a long time! Her description (from facebook) is below: