When I got my PhD one of my advisors told me to always negotiate for as much money as possible because I would ultimately be doing so much invisible/unpaid race labor compared to my white peers. I’ve been thinking about that warning a lot this week. I heard it then. I understand it now.
The More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish slogan never sat well with me. I finally put to words why.
kuimac.substack.com/p/more-black...
Thank you! I feel validated because the way my sister looked at me!
Screenshot of Afroman’s verified Instagram profile (@ogafroman), showing 4,318 posts, 914K followers, and 456 following. His profile photo shows him wearing American flag-style sunglasses and a flag-patterned shirt, with a “Freedom of Speech” themed backdrop visible behind him.
Watching the Afroman trial and they are showing screenshots from his insta.
Me, when I saw his insta handle: “Is he Nigerian? Why is his insta name Oga Froman?”
My sister: “It says OG Afroman”
Thanks for this reminder!!!
Azeezat was co-editor of The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racist Violence, along with Beth Kamunge and Remi Joseph-Salisbury.
mediadiversified.org/2018/11/14/i...
For Black Women’s History Month, I remember Dr Azeezat Johnson. Many of us are beneficiaries of her intellectual generosity and commitment to loving Black women. Physically gone for 4 years, from the ancestral plane, she continues to guide and teach us. open.substack.com/pub/kuimac/p...
A question that needs answers for sure. Thanks for asking it.
I can’t wait to read this! Thanks for sharing
The book is broken up into 5 carefully curated sections:
- Black Feminist Foundations
- Statements and Manifestos
- Cultures and Aesthetics
- Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
- Black Feminist Futures
It looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. #Lit 📚📌
Reading this gorgeous meditation, I am upset by how rights frameworks in Kenya—and elsewhere in Africa—have denuded thinking and writing by indigenous people here.
(the AU bullshit of “everyone is indigenous in Africa” obscures massive state and corporate violence against many indigenous people)
Image of stacked vintage suitcases in different colours and sizes, symbolising travel and migration. Over the image is the title: “No Longer at Home, Yet Never Departed: Why the Term ‘Migrant’ Cannot Contain Blackness.” Below the title, it reads “Digital Black Feminist Life” and “kuimac.substack.com.”
If you are interested in reading about questions of migration, race, or Blackness, you may find this piece useful.
You can read my full post here: open.substack.com/pub/kuimac/p...
Teal and gold abstract digital background with a quote that reads: “Blackness is an identity that is simultaneously both at home and not at home, on a journey and not on a journey, departed and not departed.” The quote is attributed to Dr Küi Mackay. At the bottom, the image reads “My Digital Black Feminist Life” and shows the website kuimac.substack.com.
Migration was never about white movement. It was always about Black existence. Furthermore migrant cannot contain Blackness because Blackness is an identity that is simultaneously both at home and not at home, on a journey and not on a journey, departed and not departed.
I have focused primarily on critiquing the word migrant.
We as Black people already know the word migrant is often used as a vehicle for anti-Blackness.
It allows people to discuss “immigration policy” without naming the anti-Blackness that many of these policies rest on.
The irony of writing about migration while my words remain stuck, unable to move beyond the document they are in, is not lost on me.
I decided to revisit the piece and share some of it in my Substack newsletter, My Digital Black Feminist Life.
The chapter I wrote was titled:
“Digital Black Joy as (Un)-Performance: A Blackgirl Autoethnography.”
I now have a good 8,000 words sitting in a Word document with nowhere to go.
Graphic with a teal and gold abstract digital background featuring the quote: “My Blackness was too Black for the project and I was not willing to shrink it.” The quote is attributed to Dr Kũi Mackay. At the bottom of the image, it reads “My Digital Black Feminist Life” and includes the website kuimac.substack.com.
Last year, I was invited to contribute a chapter to a book on migration and humour.
It did not work out.
What I encountered was best described as epistemological misalignment. Or simply, my Blackness was too Black for the project, and I was not willing to shrink it.
Graphic by BRK Ujima with a dark green background and the title “Why We Reimagined the Most Widely Shared Image in Racial Justice Work.” Four illustrated panels each show a wooden door on a teal wall, representing access to opportunity, with different means of reaching it: (1) Unjust World — stairs only; (2) Racial Equality — a ramp added alongside stairs, same access, different path; (3) Racial Equity — stairs, ramp, and an elevator, multiple accommodations; (4) Liberation — the door is open, light floods out, and there are no barriers at all. © BRK Ujima 2025, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Free resource for folks doing racial justice and liberation work. I have developed an alternative to the box and fence image. The focus is on dismantling systems and structures rather than requiring people to navigate them.
bit.ly/ReimagineLib...
These people are really playing “if a tree falls in a forest” games with our humanity!!!
Here, multiple teammates heard a player from Argentina call a Real Madrid player originally from Brazil a monkey, yet referee claimed he didn't hear. Cameras show him hiding his mouth.
Sentiment laundering:
"Benfica players said Prestianni said he provoked Vinícius but never used a racist insult."
The more we learn about this situation, the worse it gets.
Thanks for sharing! This is still a very fuzzy thought in my head so I welcome any comments/limitations etc.
Is it still racist if it was inaudible?
The BBC was one step away from making this their entire defence. In this post I think aloud and try to give a name to something that, for Black people, is exhaustingly familiar.
open.substack.com/pub/kuimac/p...
Thanks! I hope I haven’t shocked her too much. I have so many plant chores pending…
A day of plant chores, here is Big Greenie after chopping off her bottom part.
I offer a Black feminist perspective on why the banned TFL advert was doomed from the start.
open.substack.com/pub/kuimac/p...
For reasons that can only be described as “lacking sense”, I have 1 ticket for Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter, London
Thursday 12 June
£172 - South Standing GA (cheaper than face value)
Buy via Ticketmaster Verified Resale
secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3500623FE...
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Running late!!!!
My sister who is also watching #LoveIsBlind without the screen being visible remembers Meg. I may also have made up someone called Brad because he is not on my sister’s list.
So I am on Ep2 of our “blind watch” of #LoveIsBlind season 8. My biggest takeaway is that there is a woman called Meg and I am so confused because her voice sounds familiar but I don’t remember hearing her name before. This means at some point I have mixed up some contestants!