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I remember this exceptional piece by Danie too “On Breonna, Oluwatoyin, & Posthumous Iconography Of Murdered Black People” daniecal.medium.com/on-breonna-o...
Article (daniecal / Danie; Medium) excerpt reads: “In death; Breonna and Toyin are queens, they are angels, they are saints, they are cover girls and muses, they are regal and chic and beautiful, they are merchandise, they are screensavers, they are profitable. Their stylized images afford them a bizarre posthumous social capital they were denied while they were alive. They are everything, but done justice. And maybe some part of this process is an unspoken concession of this. Maybe we put…” Article (daniecal / Danie; Medium) excerpt reads: “…crowns on their heads and surround them with symbols of regalia because it is much easier to make them queens and cover girls in the after life than to lay justice on their altars. Maybe we are beautifying their image to beautify our failure(s). But in doing that in such a way, we also obscure the violent material realities that caused their murders, to make their memory more palatable.”
November 24, 2024 at 11:14 PM
alexachula.bsky.social
True, I ate the majority of this stuff at southern themed restaurants and in Louisiana.
November 21, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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We out here eating!
November 21, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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Hey you! 😸
November 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM