WASP @ArtistMarciaX@playvicious.social

@RosieRyan wanted to gift me a blanket. And with out asking suggested the PanAfrican flag. She luvs me.

Anyways. It's an amazing weighted blanket and as soon as it's on me I pass the hell out.

So if you're interested and are willing to pay for good hand made blankets hit her up.

#FFF
#FineFemmeFriday is starting as of today. I prefer they pronouns, I'm androgynous, sometimes seen as femme. What can I say, I like to paint my face at times.

SOOOOOOO

If you #femme I wanna see ya selfies so hit me with them.
This is meant for anyone who feels like they want to participate, and if you don't feel comfy that's ok too. No judgement. Do you :)

Me at midnight: I need to sleep
also me:
https://playvicious.social/media/2_kGXzGHGFS_I8jyzyA

This is the sort of artistic writing I've been waiting for after the Apeshit video came out, instead of semi viral Birdland threads from ppl who took one art history class

https://frieze.com/article/crazy-louvre-how-beyonce-and-jay-z-exploit-western-art-history-ask-who-controls-black-bodies

I really HATE how strangers approach you in social media and in person.

What are the other options for podcasts aside from soundcloud.

I know that it's the 'hub' but it can't be the end all be all.

Despite it being another masters, I don't think my skill in academic Spanish writing is where it needs to be in order to jump in to a phd at this time. And to be honest, that Dutch prick african anthropologist kind of traumatized me. So this is just what I need and want.

Morning y'all
Despite all the talk and prep for Patreon, it will go on the back burner for several months now more than likely.

Since I have been accepted to EINA in Barcelona! For a Masters in Art and Design and *hopefully* (not only will my visa shit work out and I actually make it there) follow up and get accepted into a Doctorate program.

mom: i know where that dr office is. i can get there no problem

me: ok i book there

mom: well, i only went bc my friend took me

me:i thought you said you knew how to get there!!

mom: cheeky grin

.....

WELL WHICH IS IT

Don't ask those of us who have done work, written, lectures, lessons, research, reading, LIFE, dealing w prisons & prison reform, immigration work, etc for YRS
where to find out info.

A lot of us, especially those who have been outside of academia, have done the googling ourselves. We go to bookstores, we dig thru the web for free pdf's if we dont have JSTOR access.

If we did it wo asking randos on the internet what to do, u can too

Idk how I got here

https://youtu.be/7mS0qznY2gk

for the first time in a couple years, i got a new daily planner.

it's needed.

Some of you can ignore & live life wo being affected

Some of us can not and never will be able to avoid it for very long. Hours, days, maybe a week.

We grew up in it. I've said this before.

Conservatives will say 'feelings aren't facts'

Our lives are facts. Testimony to how this country operates. You just don't want to believe it. But it doesn't change our reality

Thing is..sometimes we do have to shut things off for self care, bc especially as POC, we LIVE politics. I've said this before.

Our lives, even the small interactions that we sometimes have to endure, are laced with political tones, whether we mean them to or not.

And as someone who has a Masters degree in Politics...
I hate politics. But I can only ignore it for so long before I have to come back to dealing w it.

Politics gives me anxiety. It puts me in a place where I don't feel comfortable leaving the house.

This happened when Obama got elected (I was legit scared to go to work & so was a friend of mine who was a BW) we hit each other up and met up to have a ..basically a come to Jesus moment for each other

and then when I lived in UK and Brexit happened. I didn't leave the house for 2 days. The attacks on 'foreigners' went up 100% in the following days.

So for instance when that "This is America" video came out, clever people gave their response, and not so clever hotepy ppl gave their response.

And then, bc white critics aren't invested in Black production, they write articles based of Twitter threads. And sometimes it's accurate, and sometimes its terrible.

and they get paid for that dribble. sigh

These articles, written about POC art production by white writers, almost always missing the mark and has very little nuance.

There are social and cultural contexts within these works at times, that frankly, they don't understand or have the range for bc white culture is dominant. Our values, our history, our aesthetics are not in your art history books in ways that humanize us.

There's a lot of white artists making really racially charged work, in attempts to join the conversation about racism but it is always missing the mark and instead reaffirming a lot of what we as POC hate to see on canvas (see my writing on Dale Lewis, see my body of work writing abt how white artists use the Blk body as a site of violence)
& theres a lot of white critics writing about POC art in large magazines & platforms.

There's a but though