#d. kelley

[sitting-on-me-bum]

‘Impossible chemistry’: That’s one description of the activity on the ocean floor. Active vents on the seafloor, such as this roughly 100-foot-tall chimney in the Atlantic’s Lost City Hydrothermal Field, rapidly produce simple organic molecules that could have been key to the emergence of life on Earth.

PHOTOGRAPH BY D. KELLEY & M. ELEND, UNIV. WASHINGTON INST. FOR EXPLORATION/ URI-IAO/NOAA/THE LOST CITY SCIENCE TEAM

[iamenits]

New Zealand TV Weekly, October 28 1968

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Bigbadbruno has a broad range of posts & reblogs, including these! Thank you!

Tintern Avenue -- Top Treasures -- Tintern Alley

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[loneberry]

Stranger meditating in the Boston Public Garden. No filter. Just the world as it is, blanketed in white and pink flower petals.

The-world-as-abattoir and the-world-as-empyrean are, in fact, the same world. Every poet knows this—it’s the paradox at the heart of existence. I turn away from neither sorrow nor ecstasy. It is my duty to stay tuned to the whole range of what it means to be alive.

Whenever I witness moments of singular beauty I hear Robin Kelley’s voice in my head:

“My mother taught us that the Marvelous was free—in the patterns of a stray bird feather, in a Hudson River sunset, in the view from our fire escape, in the stories she told us, in the way she sang Gershwin’s ‘Summertime,’ in a curbside rainbow created by the alchemy of motor oil and water from an open hydrant.”

—Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

The Marvelous is free.

[garadinervi]

Our History Has Always Been Contraband. In Defense of Black Studies, Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2023. Featuring writings by David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Angela Y. Davis, Robert Allen, Barbara Smith, Toni Cade Bambara, bell hooks, Barbara Christian, Patricia Hill Collins, Cathy J. Cohen, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Saidiya Hartman, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and many others

[isabellaofparma]

Ghosts (CBS) | 2.18 - “Alberta's Descendant”

[gamergirl929]

Kelley O'Hara has MAJOR BDE.

[juleskelleybooks]

1995. A young woman. Her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. The small Alabama town neither of them can escape. And a ghost. Lilly Ann Guthrie is living with a man she isn't married to; she can't hold down a job, and she can't sit in a moving vehicle without having a panic attack. It isn't the life she once imagined for herself, but she can't complain. She has a roof over her head and food on her table, and she doesn't owe either of those things to her only living relative, an aunt whose disdain almost makes her wish she'd died in the same car wreck that claimed her brother and parents. So it could be worse. But in late summer, life decides it has other ideas. Her boyfriend's infamous ex, Jolene, comes back to town and turns everything on its ear, including Lilly's ability to be satisfied by her current circumstances, and strange things start happening around her house. Voices in empty rooms, fleeting glimpses of someone in her peripheral vision. Is she on the verge of losing everything, including her mind, or is she standing on the precipice of having even her most secret wishes granted?

Stars Still Fall, a southbound novel by Jules Kelley

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Walter Kingsford as Dr. H. J. Lawton, Louis Jean Heydt as Lt. Col. Van Dyke and Rachel Ames as Edna Miner in "Y-O-R-D-", a presentation of "Science Fiction Theatre"

DeForest Kelley as Captain Hall, M.D. and Kenneth Tobey as Lt. Dunne in "Y-O-R-D-" , a presentation of "Science Fiction Theatre"

John Bryant as W.O. Milligan and Clark Howat as Captain Boyce in "Y-O-R-D-, a presentation of "Science Fiction Theatre"

[protoslacker]

 An overlap and a deficit. There was a combination of what I recognized as Surrealism, it’s goals and visions and methods, on one hand, and the deficit in Marxism in the undeveloped thinking around the psyche, spirit, soul, and I still get a lot of flack for examining that. If I had a dime for every time some self-proclaimed revolutionary says, “I really like what you’re doing, but that Surrealist bullshit. Why’d you put that in there?”

Robin D.G. Kelley in conversation with D. Scot Miller at Open Space, May 30, 2017. A Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley

[samyelbanette]

My friend has a more obvious “metal” aesthetic than I do (leather jackets, combat boots, etc).

A friend once described her as “someone who looks scary, but actually isn’t” and me as “someone who doesn’t look scary, but actually is”.

[kosmik-signals]

We fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

(via The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley | The New York Review of Books)

[barking]

THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN IS REQUESTING A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO NEX BENEDICT'S DEATH

(full official request by HRC president Kelley Robinson)

this request is also being backed by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), and Nex's death has been acknowledged by Kamala Harris on Twitter

I really, really hope that these increasingly public calls for justice in Nex Benedict's assault and death lead to more action... this tragedy has finally recieved coverage in publications like USA Today, CNN, NBC, and even The New York Times

keep talking about this, please!!

EDIT: PLEASE STOP USING "SAY THEIR NAME" WHEN TALKING ABOUT NEX BENEDICT.

#SayHerName was started back in 2014 SPECIFICALLY FOR VICTIMS OF ANTI-BLACK RACISM / HATE CRIMES / MURDER. using it for Nex, who is non-black, is appropriation and co-opting a movement.

keep demanding accountability for their death, but don't use "say their name" to do so.

[garadinervi]

Aimé Césaire, (1950, 1955), Discourse on Colonialism, Translated by Joan Pinkham, Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley, Monthly Review Press, New York, NY, 2000, pp. 43-46

[friendlyfish32]

MY ART BLOCK IS FINALLY OVER