“you go for it girl! you shake your booty in [name of respected professor]’s FACE! I know you’ll be great because you are great but if it’s looking dodgy don’t be afraid to whip out the trump card & sign your essays off: “Derica, BLACK, a WOMAN, and with a HEART MURMUR.’
- extract: postcard from friend AR wishing me luck in my finals, 2009
‘Those supplied states of being’
- Audre Lorde, ‘Uses of the Erotic: the erotic as power’, 1978
A “something for something society”
- David Cameron [this is circled with a big X through it]
“we’re having mad fun together, life is so much better with her cause we’re such amazing friends. She cracks me up with her weird English, the way she muddles things up, English with Dutch grammar…”
- extract: card from my sis, writing about her partner, 2012
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson, ‘Sonnet”’
DEAD: Zyed Benna (17), Bouna Traoré (15) INJURED: Muhittin Altun (17)
- Clichy-sous-Bois, October 2005
- on a notecard
-ni-/-ku-/-m-/-tu-/-wa-/-wa-/-ji-
- KiSwahili grammar
Sylvia Wynter; John Coltrane; Stuart Hall; Paul Gilroy; Jihan El Tahri
- names of folks I admire, 2010
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I’ve moved. It was really good to tear all this stuff down.
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