#Migrations

[helenethiennot]

Sans titre - France - 2024

photographie argentique - Agfa APX 400

Hélène Thiennot

[caribbeanart]

Themes in Caribbean Literature

Journeys, Diasporas and Migrations

Historically, travel between the islands and the mainlands has been very common in the Caribbean, from Haitians, Cubans and Jamaicans taking exile in neighboring countries, to West Indians working on the banana plantations in Central America in the early 1900s and going as far back to the Caribs and the Arawak who frequently used canoes to travel between islands and throughout the region.

In our literature, poets and writers have likened the Antilles to a lake or an estuary, a port to different parts of the world. Travels and journeys can be had physically but also mentally and spiritually to ancestral lands. A literature of traces, reconnections, translations, if traditionally literature from other cultures has been about consolidating a regional identity, Caribbean literature—and identity—in a sense has been about building bridges, rekindling connections lost and starting anew.

(See also: Intro to Caribbean Literature)

References / Learn more

"Caribbean Writers & Their Art: History, the Caribbean and the Imagination (1991)." Caribbean Writers Summer Institute. University of Miami Library.

"Caribbean Writers and Their Art: Journeys (1991)." Caribbean Writers Summer Institute. University of Miami Library.

"Caribbean Writers and Their Art: Islands & Mainland (1991)." Caribbean Writers Summer Institute. University of Miami Library.

"Introduction." The Repeating Island. Antonio Benítez Rojo. 1992.

"Memories de Maldito Amor." Maldito Amor. Rosario Ferré. 1998.

"Poética de la Relación." Édouard Glissant. Traducción en Antología del pensamiento crítico caribeño contemporáneo. 2017. (Texto original desde El discurso antillano, 1981.)

[aquotecollection]

We are, all of us, given such a brief moment of time together, it hardly seems fair. But it’s precious, and maybe it’s enough, and maybe it’s right that our bodies dissolve into the earth, giving our energy back to it, feeding the little creatures in the ground and giving nutrients to the soil, and maybe it’s right that our consciousness rests. The thought is peaceful.

Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy

[skippy-reads]

The Theme of Spontaneity and Love: a Micro essay

Migrations • Courtney McConaghy

When Franny and Niall first meet, their attraction to one another is apparent, palpable. Neither of them are able to think of anything but the other, and it leads them to do rash and perhaps even unwise things.

They marry each other on the third (or perhaps second) day of knowing each other after following, observing and bantering. They buy champagne, bread, and have a friend who's ordained and everything. Six weeks pass and the feeling is beginning to set in, one of dread and uncertainty. Did they really get married so soon after knowing each other? Could this be a mistake that may kill one or both of them?

Franny seems to think so, but she's the type of self destructive force that doesn't care one way or another.

But Niall wants her, still. He holds her tenderly, asks her if she feels as though she's caged in his embrace, agrees to go with her somewhere, anywhere, together.

What I love about their relationship is that it teaches us that infatuation and attraction are feelings just like sadness and anger. They make us act out of character; they decide things for us. By choosing to stay together, another emotion takes hold of the decision making: love.

[forlorngarden]

finished my first book of the year - migrations by charlotte mcconaghy - and i can't recommend it more :'-)

[whilereadingandwalking]

I wanted to reread Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy earlier this year, but then I discovered that she was Australian, and so I saved it until my trip, buying a new copy with a gorgeous ocean-rooted paperback cover from Better Read Than Dead, a bookstore in the Sydney suburbs. I didn't get to it while still down under, but I decided to start my reread earlier today, still infected with a drive for conservation that the reefs, rainforest, and zoos instilled in me.

On reread, the book made me cry several times over. When I was first assigned the list "Books that Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again" for Book Riot, this novel was the first I thought of. The swings of despair and hope in a world where nearly all animals have gone extinct, in a world where our unreliable anti-heroine is herself swinging between purpose and delusional loss, makes for an unforgettable novel. I am still so, so in love with this book on reread, enough so that I couldn't help but stay up well into the night to finish it, and loving it the 2nd time around means it officially passes into my favorites list.

Content warnings for suicidal ideation/suicide, violence, mental illness, sexual assault attempt, violence.

[contremineur]

Today there is a huge landmass to our left, and it surprises me because there is no land on the chart I’ve been studying. As we draw close enough to see, I realise that it’s an enormous island of plastic, and there are fish and seabirds and seals dead upon its shore.

Charlotte McConaghy, from Migrations (Flatiron Books, 2020)

Woodcut from The voyage of Saint Brendan (1499)

[netmassimo]

An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports a study that offers evidence that groups of Homo sapiens migrated from Africa using the Levant as a passageway to western Asia and northern Arabia. A team of researchers conducted a digging campaign in Jordan looking for traces of ancient human passages in what is now a desert but tens of thousands of years ago was an area covered by savannah and grasslands. The discovery of sediments dating back about 84,000 years containing tools created with the so-called Levallois technique in that area confirms that the Levant was part of at least one of the human migration routes from Africa.

[helenethiennot]

Sans titre - France - 2024

photographie argentique - Kodak gold 400

Hélène Thiennot

[protoslacker]

Whereas most major human expansions involved latitudinal movements and hence went through regions with similar climatic conditions 20,21, the expansion of BSP is notable for largely being longitudinal with movements through regions with very different climatic conditions, encompassing a wide range of biomes. For example, the putative BSP homeland in the highlands of Nigeria and Cameroon differs considerably from the central African rainforest, the African savannas, and the dry conditions of southwestern Africa. Yet, BSP migrated to and settled in all these different habitats and climatic conditions. 

Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, et al. in bioRxiv. The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Nature has a research briefing of this paper.

Among the many topics I know very little about but find fascinating is the Bantu Expansion. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is something I constantly have to remind myself. But the diversity of cultures among Bantu language speakers has so intrigued me.

David Graeber's and David Wingrow's book, The Dawn of Everything, expanded the popular imagination of the variety of ways of living, and by extension expanded our ability to imagine possibles. Sometimes it is important to speak about "Africa." But that oversimplification tends to obscure hoe the people of that continent have as John Reader observes "a genius for small societies."

[drackiszunk]

This started as a 2-Star for me the first two-thirds but the last third was a 4-Star.

I cried. Obviously.

56th book of 2023

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[theblindmachine]

SECRETS PROTECT THE GUILTY; TRANSPARENCY EXPOSES THE WEAK. https://ift.tt/MafSCcg

[catherine-clover]

Edit from the future: well, this is still at the top of #reddit migration, so might as well pass on what I've learned to others.

Here's how to become a Tumbler

Find a hill

Fall to the ground in such a manner that angular momentum overtakes usual control of your body

Click the reblog button because that was a funny joke

Upvotes are reblogs. Likes are for saving really good posts, or just for something good that you can't share. Reblog more than you like to keep the site alive. There is almost no Algorithm on here, likes do almost nothing

Never, ever, ever underestimate how terminally online active Tumblr users are

Going viral is bad on this website. Your notifications will be ruined forever

No one cares how many followers you have

Change your profile picture immediately or everyone will assume you're a bot and block you

I'm stealing a lot of these tips secondhand but I promise I haven't read any in at least a year. They just came at a very pivotal time ok? I rember

#196 is your friend

Open your settings

Disable endless scrolling

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Search something you're interested in

Not too specific though

Tumblr search is the worst in the business

Find the most popular tag for that interest

Reblog posts from the tag

If someone makes a lot of good posts, follow them

Make some posts to the tag

If you and someone else both follow each other, you two are mutuals. Mutuals are treasure. Value their bond

Always reblog good art

Always reblog heritage posts

I like your shoelaces

Strange Æons killed the Muppet Joker at DashConTwo in the Ball Pit

more milk per milk

The queer tags are full of porn

DashCon was the greatest failure

DashCon was the greatest success

Our website's CEO is a dick too :/

Discourse is Hell. Do not involve

Everyone loves @charl0ttan

DNIs are not worthy of respect

Unless it's minors dni that one is actually important for legal reasons. Do do that one. Don't endanger 18+ accounts

Block or shut up

Do not feed the trolls

Homestuck will never die

You will see many posts here that you previously only ever saw in screenshots

Have fun

Good luck