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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

Come on now. How U know AIME CESAIRE inspired mah latest Book: SPITESTAMENT?? NEGRITUDE er day, ALL day. The man was an ICON. And one of mah OGs for how I writes. So this whole post put a roast on Culture. Preshate Ya for always STAYING deeeep.

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Janine de Novais's avatar

Thank you and yes, he is wonderful! I am turning to him, Cabral and others of my foundational thinkers about anticolonial, anticapitalist struggle to help inspire my imagination because This Mess We're In with the technologist Really Ain't It!!!

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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

Whats ya take on FANON??

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Janine de Novais's avatar

Love him. "Black Skin, White Mask," especially, because it is so deeply existential and psychological. And I love that even as he wrote "Wretched of the Earth" he was about healing always, he was a doctor, a war time doctor. I also relate to him a lot for the island identity, the in between, creoleness of it all.

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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

Heavy. Him and Cesaire were tight. NOTEBOOK of a RETURN to MY NATIVE LAND i take with me on all travels.

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Tabitha Blair's avatar

Love this piece Janine! Love how you said we as peeple are apt to find a freedom where none so unnaturally abounds. Poignant n precise.

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R. H. Snow's avatar

Beautifully stated! Human downgrading is such a terrifying concept, and yet we see it all around us and never realise it -

we are participating in a great experiment, to see how far we are willing to let the digitizers go.

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Wow. Thank you for this essay and the questions at the end, Janine.

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