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Ra Malika Imhotep

Jasper/Jaz, thank you so much for this thoughtful holding of gossypiin!

Jul 25, 2023

Jul 25, 2023

For the Love of Topsy (& Bopsy)

* this is written out of a rush of “fandom energy” idk if that’s a thing but last nights episode of Lovecraft Country hit all my Black…

Oct 6, 2020

For the Love of Topsy (& Bopsy)

Oct 6, 2020

Happy Birthday Toni Morrison: An Invocation for the Salt Tasters

Last week, I was invited by my stellar comrade + colleague Dr. Jakeya Caruthers to lead an embodied spiritual-political education…

Feb 18, 2020

Happy Birthday Toni Morrison: An Invocation for the Salt Tasters

Feb 18, 2020

siempre bruja — trust me, keep watching

Slavery is broadly considered an inappropriate context for melodrama, but i’m writing because I feel strongly that there is a bigger point

Feb 18, 2019

siempre bruja — trust me, keep watching

Feb 18, 2019

Invocation for our Celie-ness, our Netties, our Sophias and our Shugs (from Exhale Collective…

Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to tell the story of her step-grandmother Rachel. For Walker not only does Celie exist, but there is a…

Oct 16, 2018

Invocation for our Celie-ness, our Netties, our Sophias and our Shugs (from Exhale Collective…

Oct 16, 2018

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What I Wish to See: A Preemptive Engagement with Kerry James Marshall

or A Dark-Black Girl in Relation to What Might Be Her Reflection

Mar 23, 2017

What I Wish to See: A Preemptive Engagement with Kerry James Marshall

Mar 23, 2017

Twerkin’ Diaspora: Reading Urban Afro-Femme Performance (#RUDigitalBlackness2016)

In November of 2014, Jamie Moore AKA Betty Butt, a founding member of “The Official Twerk Team,” was shot and killed inside her Atlanta…

Apr 26, 2016

Twerkin’ Diaspora: Reading Urban Afro-Femme Performance (#RUDigitalBlackness2016)

Apr 26, 2016

Ra Malika Imhotep

Ra Malika Imhotep

black feminist writer + cultural worker, steward of Black studies and Black [queer] feminist thought, Prof of African Diaspora studies

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