La Marr Jurelle Bruce
@afromantic.bsky.social
troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
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Since doechii has been blowing up and kendrick dropped a new album, read how to go mad without losing your mind
December 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Since doechii has been blowing up and kendrick dropped a new album, read how to go mad without losing your mind
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
December 27, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
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Taught Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes, and La Marr Bruce, How To Go Mad without Losing Your Mind today. Thinking, thinking…
July 12, 2023 at 10:49 PM
Taught Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes, and La Marr Bruce, How To Go Mad without Losing Your Mind today. Thinking, thinking…
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Sexuality Beyond Consent - Saketopolou
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique - Gatzambide
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind - Bruce
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World - Graeber
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique - Gatzambide
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind - Bruce
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World - Graeber
November 18, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Sexuality Beyond Consent - Saketopolou
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique - Gatzambide
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind - Bruce
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World - Graeber
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique - Gatzambide
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind - Bruce
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World - Graeber
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in the book “how to go mad without losing your mind” they speak to the ancestors who chose to fly over the sea as an act of freedom and departure from this mess. can you blame them? can you shame them? can you say “no no no please stay” to a pain, especially one you actually know? no
April 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
in the book “how to go mad without losing your mind” they speak to the ancestors who chose to fly over the sea as an act of freedom and departure from this mess. can you blame them? can you shame them? can you say “no no no please stay” to a pain, especially one you actually know? no
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I need a version of this for politics.
June 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I need a version of this for politics.
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I need to get back into reading “How to go Mad Without Loosing Your Mind” it is just THICC textually and I’m not strong at reading non-fiction (I’m! Trying to expand bc I like learning)
But! It’s def one of my favs. That book is the reason I started looking to re-evaluate some prior diagnoses
But! It’s def one of my favs. That book is the reason I started looking to re-evaluate some prior diagnoses
March 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I need to get back into reading “How to go Mad Without Loosing Your Mind” it is just THICC textually and I’m not strong at reading non-fiction (I’m! Trying to expand bc I like learning)
But! It’s def one of my favs. That book is the reason I started looking to re-evaluate some prior diagnoses
But! It’s def one of my favs. That book is the reason I started looking to re-evaluate some prior diagnoses
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Today’s reading and testing to see if this app has auto alt text ft. Bartholomew Nubbs the kitten (book is “How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind” by La Marr Jurelle Bruce)
November 6, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Today’s reading and testing to see if this app has auto alt text ft. Bartholomew Nubbs the kitten (book is “How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind” by La Marr Jurelle Bruce)
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“How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind” might be my favorite read this year, so thanks for that @chantalalive.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind” might be my favorite read this year, so thanks for that @chantalalive.bsky.social
TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS
Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute
July 18th
"We will gather as teachers, community-based educators, and scholars to offer practical application of ideas, resources, and techniques that can be applied in our collective learning spaces."
go.umd.edu/transgress
Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute
July 18th
"We will gather as teachers, community-based educators, and scholars to offer practical application of ideas, resources, and techniques that can be applied in our collective learning spaces."
go.umd.edu/transgress
June 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS
Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute
July 18th
"We will gather as teachers, community-based educators, and scholars to offer practical application of ideas, resources, and techniques that can be applied in our collective learning spaces."
go.umd.edu/transgress
Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute
July 18th
"We will gather as teachers, community-based educators, and scholars to offer practical application of ideas, resources, and techniques that can be applied in our collective learning spaces."
go.umd.edu/transgress
Still mad—and with good reason.
Today is the release date for the audiobook of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: MADNESS AND BLACK RADICAL CREATIVITY. I'm grateful to @dukepress.bsky.social for continued investment in my work, even four years after initial publication.
Today is the release date for the audiobook of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: MADNESS AND BLACK RADICAL CREATIVITY. I'm grateful to @dukepress.bsky.social for continued investment in my work, even four years after initial publication.
June 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Still mad—and with good reason.
Today is the release date for the audiobook of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: MADNESS AND BLACK RADICAL CREATIVITY. I'm grateful to @dukepress.bsky.social for continued investment in my work, even four years after initial publication.
Today is the release date for the audiobook of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: MADNESS AND BLACK RADICAL CREATIVITY. I'm grateful to @dukepress.bsky.social for continued investment in my work, even four years after initial publication.
REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
History, Theory, Strategy
This course is a gathering place and thought laboratory for people passionate about activism, movement building, social transformation, and liberation...
History, Theory, Strategy
This course is a gathering place and thought laboratory for people passionate about activism, movement building, social transformation, and liberation...
June 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
History, Theory, Strategy
This course is a gathering place and thought laboratory for people passionate about activism, movement building, social transformation, and liberation...
History, Theory, Strategy
This course is a gathering place and thought laboratory for people passionate about activism, movement building, social transformation, and liberation...
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"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
November 23, 2024 at 12:59 AM
"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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Y’all paying attention to South Korea? Y’all paying attention to Sudan? Y’all paying attention to Syria? Y’all paying attention to the impunity of Israel? The genocide in Gaza? The escalation in the West Bank? Y’all paying attention to the Sahel? Burkina Faso?Niger? Chad? Senegal?
December 14, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Y’all paying attention to South Korea? Y’all paying attention to Sudan? Y’all paying attention to Syria? Y’all paying attention to the impunity of Israel? The genocide in Gaza? The escalation in the West Bank? Y’all paying attention to the Sahel? Burkina Faso?Niger? Chad? Senegal?
"You are evеrything. You have everything you need."
—Sade Adu
—Sade Adu
November 23, 2024 at 1:08 AM
"You are evеrything. You have everything you need."
—Sade Adu
—Sade Adu
"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to."
—Toni Morrison
—Toni Morrison
November 23, 2024 at 1:00 AM
"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to."
—Toni Morrison
—Toni Morrison
"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”
—Frantz Fanon
—Frantz Fanon
November 23, 2024 at 1:00 AM
"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”
—Frantz Fanon
—Frantz Fanon
"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
November 23, 2024 at 12:59 AM
"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett
"Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities..."
—Sylvia Wynter
—Sylvia Wynter
November 23, 2024 at 12:57 AM
"Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities..."
—Sylvia Wynter
—Sylvia Wynter
"Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually—without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about."
—Lorraine Hansberry
—Lorraine Hansberry
November 23, 2024 at 12:55 AM
"Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually—without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about."
—Lorraine Hansberry
—Lorraine Hansberry
“I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”
—Nina Simone
—Nina Simone
November 23, 2024 at 12:55 AM
“I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”
—Nina Simone
—Nina Simone
"Everybody is a star. The only problem is some people haven't been put in the dipper and poured back on the world."
–Little Richard, invoking Sly Stone
–Little Richard, invoking Sly Stone
November 23, 2024 at 12:54 AM
"Everybody is a star. The only problem is some people haven't been put in the dipper and poured back on the world."
–Little Richard, invoking Sly Stone
–Little Richard, invoking Sly Stone
"There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."
–Octavia Butler
–Octavia Butler
November 23, 2024 at 12:53 AM
"There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."
–Octavia Butler
–Octavia Butler