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22 Oct 2022I read that writing is a reading practice that considers multiple social realities and differential psycho-affective fields while also exposing the intense weight of our governing system of knowledge.
I read that a “deciphering practice recognizes the intense weight and how it induces how we feel and know the world;
I read that this recognition, importantly, signals and can honor other ways of feeling and knowing the world.
I read that a deciphering practice notices that the tendency to describe black (as less than human, defective, captive) is not a measure of black life.
I read that a deciphering practice imagines and enacts an aesthetics of black life outside the intense weight of racism.
I read that a deciphering practice is not a process of excavation and retrieval.
I read that a deciphering practice is not an absence followed by a presence.
I read that a deciphering practice is not a site to narrate and describe black oppression.
I read that a deciphering practice is the work of creatively exploring and uncovering the ways black communities navigate but are not absolutely defined by racism and disavowal."
I read that from Katherine McKittrick writing about opacity and Sylvia Wynter on October 22, 2022
I read that this recognition, importantly, signals and can honor other ways of feeling and knowing the world.
I read that a deciphering practice notices that the tendency to describe black (as less than human, defective, captive) is not a measure of black life.
I read that a deciphering practice imagines and enacts an aesthetics of black life outside the intense weight of racism.
I read that a deciphering practice is not a process of excavation and retrieval.
I read that a deciphering practice is not an absence followed by a presence.
I read that a deciphering practice is not a site to narrate and describe black oppression.
I read that a deciphering practice is the work of creatively exploring and uncovering the ways black communities navigate but are not absolutely defined by racism and disavowal."
I read that from Katherine McKittrick writing about opacity and Sylvia Wynter on October 22, 2022
I read McKittrick, K. (2022), Dear April: The Aesthetics of Black Miscellanea. Antipode, 54: 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12773