@escapebound

“nothing is ever escaped” – james baldwin

Joined August 2018
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HONEY B.
@ITSBCHRISOct 24
yall wasn’t there
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nothing like being reminded that you own nothing
Redacted@redactedobscureOct 22
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can the slave break the firewall?
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can’t even be mad fr
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🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 (i have not shared because even i do not have online access to the issue yet lol. whoever happens to, please do dm me so i can disseminate!)
jatella@jatellaOct 22
the hottest pub on the block right now is coming from @escapebound this essay, developed over the past year or two, is solely responsible for every time heretofore you see me say “irony”, which it unequivocally establishes as a keyterm of thinking black/ness.
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jatella@jatellaOct 22
if you can get it from behind a paywall we’d share an unpayable debt. utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10…

To Corpse a Corpse? Reflections of the Unbearable Blackness of Irony | The Yearbook of Comparative...

This essay argues that if, for Paul de Man, irony might be read as a gesture that not only shatters the illusion of representation and resemblance but also paradoxically kills the original by...

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jatella@jatellaOct 22
the hottest pub on the block right now is coming from @escapebound this essay, developed over the past year or two, is solely responsible for every time heretofore you see me say “irony”, which it unequivocally establishes as a keyterm of thinking black/ness.
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(i like teaching, don’t get me wrong, but it’s really annoying that just when i get in a writing groove i have to stop and prepare for class.)
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(and like… it takes precious time to get in that groove again. so that every other day i’m just thrown all the way off and have to re-find it.)
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jatella@jatellaOct 21
how about this: let’s ask Umar about black transness. let’s ask Nick Cannon about patriarchy. what’s equipping these men in this conversation is not some black feminist investment! it’s their intellectualized interest in an intraracial traffic in women. let’s be fuckn fr.
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literally everyone is wrong. she’s emulating icecoldbishop and probably a few other semi-underground LA rappers.
rae
@raereturnsOct 21
Why she sound like that MY DADDY DIED girl
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LA rappers—outside of Kendrick—have been doing very interesting things flow and inflection-wise for a while now. y’all just haven’t been listening
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“…reference is not the same thing as a jouissance of mastery indifferent to sense or meaning”
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never really agreed with Benjamin that poetry (or the task of the poet) is clearly differentiated from translation (or the task of the translator). Anne Carson is proof.
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dj short@_djshortOct 6
rare footage has surfaced of d'angelo singing 'cruisin' with smokey robinson at the 1996 essence awards
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yeah.
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Who is she?
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ε(*´･ω･)з@girlsoftwareSep 29
they Saying they got taught AAVE in german Schools.
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black intelligence is already so easy to discredit. it is the overdetermined object of AI paranoia in the humanities.
Haitian Times@HaitianTimes_Sep 30
The Académie Goncourt has removed Haitian Canadian author Thélyson Orélien from prize consideration amid AI allegations and past plagiarism reports. Orélien denies using AI to write his bestselling novel "C’était ça ou mourir." Read the details: haitiantimes.com/2026/09/28/…
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Fanon did not know to what extent he was right when he said “the black soul is a white artifact”
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