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Topping the Steps and the World: The Carters in the Louvre
The Carters’ APES**T music video opens with black man with angel wings on the steps of the Louvre. He wears ripped jeans and sneakers and no shirt. Later, two black women sit on the floor, facing away from each other, linked by white fabric on both of their heads. They are placed in front of…
Dear Harriet Jacobs
Upon returning to my home in Ashburn, Virginia for this past break, I decided to engage in the small space exercise for my journal entry. In the basement of my home there’s a small room with no furniture where my father stores old family photos, heirlooms, and other miscellaneous books. I decided on this space…
Who a Successful Black Woman is, According to Donald Glover’s Atlanta and Beyonce
Beyonce’s “Diva” music video opens with a black screen and simple typewriter-style text providing the viewer with a definition of the word diva: “A successful and glamorous female personality; especially: a female singer who has achieved popularity”. This definition immediately brought me back to the opening scene of Atlanta’s sixth episode, “Value”, which presents with…
how’d she do it?
Dear Ms. Jacobs, Over this past weekend, I attempted to replicate a space similar to your garret escape to try to begin to comprehend what you lived through. Although I will never be able to truly understand what you experienced, I hope to gain some insight on what your reality was like during your time in the garret. The…
Redefining the College Experience
Although, Sassafrass wasn’t directly described knitting in Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, I believe my new skill of knitting can relate to Sassafrass’ wall hangings and cloth weaving. This is my moment of ecstatic joy, finishing my first knit scarf. Only two weeks ago, Emma taught my house of roommates how to knit. We all decided…
Do nothing without intention.
As we were examining the line “I knew what I did, and I did it with the deliberate calculation,” (47) from chapter ten in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, I thought about Solange’s music video for “Almeda.” I was hooked onto the line “Nothing without intention. Do nothing without intention,” said by…
To Be an Enslaved Woman is to Yearn for Death, or Freedom — Whichever Will Come First
Personally, whenever I’ve heard the phrase “Give me liberty or give me death”, my automatic assumption is that the person saying it would much rather receive liberty than die. However, in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this idea of preference is largely eliminated by the absolutely brutal nature of slavery. Harriet Jacobs,…
Us and Everybody Else
Smoke filled lungs empty chronic symphonies, I relish in the taste of the current trapping my skin, match the jaded expression of the pianist played one gig too high. Left foot fused to the floor with a concoction of warm liquor, sweat, and melted keys. And sweet deceit fills our ears. Knees start to buckle,…
Taking Up Space at Home: Apple Pie and Harry Styles
For this week’s journal entry, I explored a moment of ecstatic joy in my life. These moments are really hard to come by, especially now. It is so easy to get bogged down into the hardships of everything going on, but making my apple pie was something that was really nice to do on my…