Blackness, Performance, Freedom
Just recently, I heard some very good news that transformed my perception of my immediate future. My mom is a foreign service officer, and recently I found out that her next post will be in Madrid. This made me so happy as I will have one home in Spain for the next couple of years…
Having now personally reenacted the Moon Journey written by Indigo, I know these traditions to be capable of inciting a powerful emotional response. This realization pushed me to reexamine the purposeful placement of the recipes throughout the novel in order to achieve a better understanding of the three sisters and the text generally. The recipes…
Childish Gambino’s “This is America” has been seen in two major iterations: in the song’s music video, released in May 2018, and in the film Guava Island, released in April 2019. Both are performed by Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover); in Guava Island it is performed by Glover’s character, Deni. The two performances resemble each…