You’ve probably read or overheard “black thumb,” treated like a paddle ball game. Black thumb, returning to the final paddle on its string of white privilege shatters like glass on concrete floor (today!). Why? No one has thumbs that are black, however, due to white supremacy culture and complacency, (buzz) words lacking substance loom over communities of color, similar to drones currently surveilling landscape illegally. No one has thumbs that are green (either). The word green can easily be replaced by white, especially in settler colonialism. White dress, white swan, white walls in a gallery space are not simply aesthetic choice,…
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Black w/ Plants: A Playlist
w/ Plants is a Spotify playlist created by @blackwithplants to help listeners prioritize improving their relationship with plants. Said online playlist centers the voices of black folk, people of color, women, and individuals often marginalized in white supremacy culture. As you remove dust from foliage, peruse your favorite plant shop, or decolonize your thinking, consider filling space with the alluring sounds above. Want to deepen your understanding of root + shoot systems? Follow @blackwithplants on Instagram. Black w/ Plants: Black-owned Shops, Etc.
Black w/ Plants: Black-owned Shops, Etc.
Below you will notice information pertaining to Black-owned Shops in D.C., Detroit, Ypsilanti, the East Bay, and scattered across the globe. Each shop, etc. will connect readers to Black botanists, horticulturists, farmers, plant stylists, interior designers, in addition to individuals working hard to help people improve their understanding of and relationship w/ plants. Black-owned Shops Lee’s Flower Shop (Washington, D.C.) Lillith Plant Shop (Washington, D.C.) Natty Garden (Brooklyn) PRICK (London) Red Rose Florist (Detroit) The Zen Succulent (North Carolina) Urbane Terrain (North Carolina) ETC. Prick: Cacti and Succulents: Choosing, Styling, Caring (SIGNED) by Gynelle We The People Growers Association (Ypsilanti, MI)…
Care Not Cops
December 15, 7 pm Riverside Arts Center 76 N. Huron Street, Ypsi A Community Conversation, facilitated by Solidarity & Defense, Huron Valley How could we address harm without police? How are we already resolving conflict without police? What tangible examples can you share from your own life? This evening will kick off with a brief slideshow as inspiration…
Remember Aura Rosser
[editor’s note: this communiqué was submitted anonymously] On the snowy morning of Friday, November 9th, a banner was hung on a pedestrian overpass over I-94 in Ann Arbor to greet workers as they commuted into the city. Reading “Remember Aura Rosser, Murdered by A2 Cops,” the banner both calls on the passer-by to remember Aura,…
The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner
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Interview with Josh MacPhee
Polymath editor, designer, artist, archivist, organizer, and father Josh MacPhee is in town for the symposium Talking About a Revolution: Art, Design and the Institution. He’s also got two curated walls (one of which is above) in Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire, up now at the Stamps Gallery. Tell us about your…
Hey Laquan
Everybody’s talking about how the cop who murdered you just got convicted, and maybe that’s something, but I can’t stop looking at this photo of you, the one where you’re standing in a kitchen (your great-grandma, Goldie Hunter’s?) in a white v-neck t-shirt, your handsome face leaning slightly to the right. There’s so little about…
An Interview with Emory Douglas
The Black Panther Party was the most significant radical organization in American history, and you’d be wrong if you thought that in order to achieve that prominence their graphic identity needed to follow convention. Not only did the Panthers create propaganda and visual materials that broke with the anaseptic conventions of mid-20th-century design and culture,…
Emory Douglas: Designing Justice
Emory Douglas was the Black Panther Party’s Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture, platforms from which he produced work that influenced the 20th century more than any other American artist or designer. He’s coming to Ann Arbor next week to give a talk: Emory Douglas: Designing Justice October 4, 2018 5:10 p.m. Michigan Theater The talk,…
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