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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 2h

*shameless plug*

patsy graces the cover of crys's memoir with recipes, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts and is the anchor for the essays within it.... available every single where.

makes a great holiday gift! 😊

photo of two brown hands holding a hardcover copy of the book, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson, featuring a picture of 4 golden brown biscuits beside a vintage sepia-toned photo of a black woman in a dress.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 2h

*shameless plug*

patsy graces the cover of crys's memoir with recipes, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts and is the anchor for the essays within it.... available every single where.

makes a great holiday gift! 😊

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 2h

crystal's ancestor, patsy riffe, was a free black woman owning 360-ish acres of land in casey county and a school for the black children. black fams lived on her land (STILL NAMED FOR HER TODAY, PATSY RIFFE RIDGE); she had 11 children...

patsy riffe ridge is all-white now; not a black fam in sight.

soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8h

there are only 2 or 3 black families in crystal's Casey County now, despite stories that the black community was much larger at some point. did they willingly migrate elsewhere? or where they encouraged to get out of dodge once they were free of slavery's state-sponsored terror?

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 3h

i mean, that likely explains the origins of the "sundown town" as there wouldnt be the need for it DURING slavery.

soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8h

when someone says to you "you better ask somebody!" you explicitly should NOT ask somebody... just shut up, mind your own business, and everything should be fine (if you lucky).

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8h

there are only 2 or 3 black families in crystal's Casey County now, despite stories that the black community was much larger at some point. did they willingly migrate elsewhere? or where they encouraged to get out of dodge once they were free of slavery's state-sponsored terror?

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8h

the state just didnt want free blacks here in 1850 giving "strange ideas" to the enslaved but were okay with us already here after emancipation?

idk.

but fuck this shit, either way.

but this does seem explain why black communities in the counties vanished in state following the civil war.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8h

what we DID have, dating back to 1808 and solidified in our state constitution in 1850, was the prohibiting of freed black folk from migrating TO kentucky.

which, logically (to me), suggests freed blacks wouldve been encouraged to leave if free blacks were encouraged NOT to move here... or maybe

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8h

we heard, tonight, that kentucky had long ago passed a law following emancipation that the condition of black freedom hinged on former slaves leaving the state. but google says that was never a mandatory state law, unlike in virginia, at the time.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 14h

in case it's slipped yalls mind...

soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 8d

16 various titles for October, Black Speculative Fiction Month

#BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth —

photo of 16 books by black authors spread across the yellow blanket on our bed in a 4 x 4 grid of books —

wizard of the crow by ngūgī wa thiong'o; unshod, cackling, and naked by tamika thompson; shigidi and the brass head of obalufon by wole talibi; none but the righteous by chantal james; the ballad of perilous graves by alex jennings; rosewater by tade thompson; out there screaming (horror anthology) edited by jordan peele; my life in the bush of ghosts by amos tutuola; skin folk by nalo hopkinson; black leopard, red wolf by marlon james; dhalgren by samuel r. delany; the ballad of black tom by victor lavalle; nigerians in space by deji bryce olukotun; how long 'til black future month? by n.k. jemisin; black sci-fi short stories (gothic fantasy) edited by tia ross; and everfair by nisi shawl.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 16h

good afternoon, fam

witchdoctor
HOLIDAY

youtu.be/QbB_77VwNeU?...

"Holiday/12 Scanner" -Witchdoctor

YouTube video by Music 4 All People

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 20h

#HOMELESSSKY

People talk about how "homeless people are like zombies" and call us walking dead and whatnot, but no one talks about how the process of becoming homeless slices your whole personhood away, piece by piece, until you are left with just the bare shell of what made you _yourself_.

‎Synapsid (Scary) @synapsid.bsky.social · 1d

not much of me left at this point

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 17h

guess i should start practicing how im gonna butcher up these poems.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 19h

reminder to take my high blood pressure & high cholesterol medicines, acause im gonna need them...

soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 19h

*dammit. forgot about the bacon i left sitting in the oven... i done already smashed the eggs!*

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 19h

*dammit. forgot about the bacon i left sitting in the oven... i done already smashed the eggs!*

soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 19h

anyway, this sposta be my day off from serious topics...

hot banana pepper scrambled eggs anyone?

(i should open a diner!)

photo of 2 slices of sourdough bread covered in peach preserves next to scrambled eggs on a white plate next.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 19h

ive been saying this for 20 yrs - myth, fairytale, fables, romanticism: all are cornerstones for nationalism (regradless where) & how privilege is received & perceived within them. in the west, esp the u.s., there are no positive myths abt people of color; only racist tropes controlled by the elite.

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 19h

“𝑀𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒. 𝑈𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒.” -- Anodea Judith

#love #myth #mythology #psychology

Bad Myth/Good Myth

Why Love Is So Difficult and What We Can Do About It?

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 20h

well. i think im good now.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 21h

but im deeply enthralled with all of the african models...

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 22h

think cabincore or academiccore, but with black people & art.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 22h

much of my old tumblr account, Abstrack Africana, used as a fine art / Black Romanticism moodboard helped inform the perspective of my poems (esp. my Fayre Gabbro suite of poems) from 2011 to 2018 when i deleted it. altho thats been my primary aesthetic since around 2002.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 22h

i didnt even know he was in it until an hour or so ago.

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 22h

Sudanese models Monica Majak (left) and Ajak Noi Dwol (slightly out of frame on the right) shot by Hart Leshikma for SSAW Magazine November 2022

if i recall, Monica was recently the youngest Sudanese woman to climb to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

photo of a dark-skinned woman dressed in a black sweater against a white wall. her hair is braided straight back into cornrows that band together into a delicate bun.

photo of Monica (in the back) and Ajak (forefront, with her head bowed down obscuring her face). both women are dressed in similar black sweaters.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 23h

ah! thank you!