Airea D. Matthews
Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
- Reposted by Airea D. MatthewsThis poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings. "Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend."
- Laundromats are one of those few places where you can connect in real time with other human beings who may or may not have vastly different lives than your own. Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.
- Wherever you are at least it’s not inside this uber of undefinable funk. At least it’s not here.
- We can throw this whole month in the trash for all I care.
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- It would be very nice if politicians cared about upholding democracy as much as they care about tweeting. But…here we are. Afraid to break. Content to be broken.
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- You’re feeling dread for a reason. Search for the reason and activate.
- UVA April 15th.
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- The value of these platforms is in the algorithm. When buyers purchase, they purchase the speculative valuation of the algorithm—which is to say they buy your desires, thoughts, patterns & try to shape culture around what you think you wanted. Lull you to sleep sated. Rock you awake wanting.
- Another reading selection
- I can’t pass up the opportunity to be a Virgo and say “I told yall.”
- They can’t have your mind if you don’t let them. And if you don’t let them, they won’t have your thoughts to tarnish.
- It’s all spectacle. It’s all Bread and Circus.
- Unbearable beauty (without filter or editing). Sunset in Toubab Dialaw.
- Watching America from Senegal. Superbly shitty episode today with the 4th beastie boy in a gold chain talking about freedom.
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- New York at night. Dakar at sunrise.
- Thank you, Brittany Rogers, for this generous interview in MQR. sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2024/11/...
- Just a reminder that meetings that could have been an email have life or death consequences.
- Imagine starting a battle rap and losing so completely, you call the police.
- May I suggest the Kendrick Lamar model for the next four years? -Anticipate foolishness -Find an inside source -Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel -Stage local spite concerts -Get media coverage -Go 🤫 -Book gigs -Release a global collab, double down phenom
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- My student reminded me today that “time is the best editor.”
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- Peace is not boredom. Peace is not boring. Peace is generative and full of quiet possibility. Day 7
- Moon Bear Matthews aka my shadow aka juicy jowls
- Day 6. Poetry…
- Day 5
- Poems remind us of our humanity because, sometimes, the lines break. Just like humans do. And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.
- Day #4 Derrida Negotiations Spillers Black White and in Color
- Day #3
- Reading Possibilities Day #2
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- I’ll suggest a book or two a day—across genres—for a week. Make a list, form a group, add your own, who knows…
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- This sounds fascinating workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/540/
- What if we get off everything and just start reading?
- Reposted by Airea D. MatthewsJust a quick note to those new here, if you think someone's post is worth other people reading, repost it. Liking it does not have the same effect here as on the dead-bird site. There is no algorithm. That's one of the reasons we like it.
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