Non-Fiction 6 Archives

Bottom

by ap | Mar 3, 2021 | Highlights 6, Non-Fiction 6, PREE 6, Vladimir Lucien | 3 |

VLADIMIR LUCIEN
Yet so much about this conflict between the head and the pelvis, meeting at the navel, seems one dimensional — all of it focused at the front of the body. It doesn’t speak of the bottom, the butt, the bambam, the bamsee, the badonkadonk, the booty.

DUB: RHYTHM, RHYME, ROOTS

by ap | Nov 16, 2020 | Non-Fiction 6, PREE 6, Tamara Belinfanti | 6 |

TAMARA BELINFANTI

At root though, dub is soul-work. Dub is wisdom. It provides a template, or if you make it your own, a dub plate, for how the stripped down and refashioning nature of dub qua art form actually has personal lessons for living a life that reverberates with Dub’s soul and consciousness.

Strategies to Escape the Eyes of the State

by ap | Nov 11, 2020 | Gervais Marsh, Highlights 6, Non-Fiction 6, PREE 6 | 0 |

GERVAIS MARSH

Let’s not pretend that only poor people bleach because Uptown Susan looking browner these days too, using dermatologist approved creams to “brighten” her skin. But middle-class Black people build glass houses of respectability and everyone, my Uptown self included, benefits from the cultural production of poor Black people, freely adopting language, style and gestures.