tobacco leaf blessings

planetariums, art museums, aquariums, science museums my beloved

The amount of undocumented arrests—just people in jails all around the world, marked missing or presumed dead by their families, or worse, unnoticed by their communities—is really, really... I honestly don't know what word to use. Devastating is a start

Perhaps I was a fool/naive not to realise how temporary that BLM (COVID era) shift in the art world was. Especially here in Europe, I'm starting to realise that I'm not just experiencing the effects of the systematic defunding of the arts sector and the humanities in education, but also how my Blackness/Africanness is no longer a priority or a “hot topic.” It’s dwindling, and all these institutions seem to be going back to their usual programming now. Smh.

I never thought me growing would mean leaving behind people I thought I loved.