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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 4h

This show opens tomorrow in New Orleans 🌺🌺

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 11h

Appreciate you sharing💐🌺

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning. A while back I wrote something short indebted to Dr. Walcott’s essay “Toward Another Shape of this World”. Resharing it today because the words “abolish ice” don’t seem enough to how I’m feeling

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 12h

Dr. Walcott’s essay is in the book THE ALCHEMY LECTURE Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation DELE ADEYEMO NATALIE DIAZ NADIA YALA KISUKIDI RINALDO WALCOTT With an Introduction by CHRISTINA SHARPE @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

cosmic living isn’t marked by borders but by entanglement…cosmic living is actually anti-border..something I was thinking about this am and wanted to share. and with appreciation to Professor Walcott @blacklikewho.bsky.social

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

I thought about how stars carry their dead behind them…and not only that …how they enfold those who have passed into a common project of living…

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

stars carry the history of passage in their living…not as a border but as a glowing entanglement. A light held close in their vibrational fabric…”held but not had,” as poet Nathaniel Mackey might say…

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

in the star’s center like its beating heart was the glow of a star that died thousands of years ago

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

This morning, the first day of Eid, I saw two photos, one of Palestinians in Gaza praying alongside rubble, aspiring for unbroken living amidst broken earth (image on instagram via poet Mosab Abu Toha, not reproduced here) The second image was of a star posted by NASA, of a “Spirograph nebula”—

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

And later Dr. Walcott writes, “let me propose that the term migrant is an assault on being…it is an assault because it is our species’ drive to move, for both survival and transmutation..”

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

In “Toward Another Shape of this World”, Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, brilliantly beautifully instructs that “people’s movement today is broken into categories so that managing their access to resources can be done in relation to the maldistribution of those resources….”

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13h

“Let me propose that the term migrant is an assault on being” Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, “Toward Another Shape of this World” @blacklikewho.bsky.social

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"What poetry allows is the removal of parts of speech so that a life may make sense to itself." Dionne Brand Poetry as another earthly grammar or when/where earth arrives as an unfinishable sentence

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s the Ars Poetica of the Blue Clerk published in a 2017 issue of the Black Scholar

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"What poetry allows is the removal of parts of speech so that a life may make sense to itself." Dionne Brand Poetry as another earthly grammar or when/where earth arrives as an unfinishable sentence

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ll repost as much as I can. These lectures are a balm, a gift, an opening

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“if you stand beside a painting of your painting self time splits” From Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs's ‘primary: after and with alma thomas'

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“where the child wonders, the empire falls.” Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ‘primary: after and with alma thomas’

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“What, then, did we bring to our new evening?” Canisia Lubrin, Code Noir: Fictions

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here’s the thing about reading beautiful writing…it takes time, in large part to accomodate its prismatic, bearly describable wonders…the glimmers at visions corners that dance when the good book is put down and you stare into space.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Truly. I pick up, read, and put down for these reasons as I did with the earths your writing made and released in that foreword

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“What, then, did we bring to our new evening?” Canisia Lubrin, Code Noir: Fictions

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Solidarity with students at UT Austin, in Gaza, in France trying to learn without the brutal interferences of state and empire.

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@makeradicalcare @radical-care.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I need to find a new place to live. My current living situation is not safe anymore. I've been here 6 years. I used to love it here but it's become intolerable. I have a full time job now but I want to move as soon as possible. asking for mutual aid and support 💜 Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love this institute. I’ve had the honor of presenting and learning alongside amazing scholars of Black feminist thought. This is this beloved institute’s last year. I’ll miss it deeply. Grad students, you should apply ❤️🌺 (link is here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...)

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BLACK FEMINIST THEORY SUMMER INSTITUTE

Abundance

AUGUST 2-6, 2027

Kemi Adeyemi
Moya Bailey
Margo Natalie Crawford
Crystal Donkor
Uri McMillan
Petal Samuel
Marisa Solomon
Shatema Threadcraft

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Even though the material conditions might hold you down, they're not representative of the aesthetic or intellectual conditions." Dionne Brand Profound and bears repeating. Flowers always for Dionne Brand 💐🌺

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They certainly know how to take over a fence💜🌺💜

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ll repost as much as I can. These lectures are a balm, a gift, an opening

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“& so to tenderness I add my action.” Aracelis Girmay

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m so looking forward to this beautiful book. Reading the great intro now 💐💐 @demonicgrounds.bsky.social

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can’t keep up with all of the brilliant essays and books out there and coming out 🌺

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Same. Going to try to write today

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The inaugural event for this monthly series kicks off next Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 6p featuring Jonathan Howard (Yale University) to discuss his book, Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness (@dukepress.bsky.social).

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