#extracelestial

[ID: Art of a character called Matkyl. She is a demon with paper white skin, long light purple hair, and purple eyes with orange highlights. She has purple bat wings with a purple tail that has a heart shape at the end, with a lighter heart inside it. Matkyl wears a black face mask, a teal ribbon around her neck, black gloves with a teal stripe around the ends, a short pink crop top thats tied in the middle with a teal string, a pink low waisted mini skirt with a teal buckle and black thigh highs with garters. Matkyl is winking, looking at the camera while slightly bending foward with one hand on her hip while the other reaches foward and points at the camera. The background is a dark red with purple splatterings and a pink splatter around Matkyl's head /END ID]

Sun Ra wasn’t trying to “escape” Earth, he was trying to free Black folks from a world that never meant for them to survive. His Space Is the Place isn’t some sci-fi getaway; it’s a radical refusal of a system built on Black social death, a system where Black people are visible only through violence, labor, and erasure. Elon Musk wants to sell Mars to billionaires. Sun Ra wanted to reimagine Black existence entirely.

Yes, dreaming of cosmic utopias risks ignoring struggles here, but Sun Ra flips that. He names the struggle so clearly that the only option is to imagine beyond it. His vision is not escapism. It’s a refusal to let Black liberation be bound by the same world that enslaved it.

We reconcile the cosmic with the earthly by recognizing that liberation starts in the mind, in the sound, in the vibration. Jazz is the cry of survival, even in the face of social death. And Sun Ra made it interstellar.

I deleted the app and reinstalled just a little bit ago. Did nothing. I’ll try seeing if there’s an update.