SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings - Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD

The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prizewinner: Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD (2020-2021)

16 November 2020 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

The 2020-2021 prizewinner is YNDIA S. LORICK-WILMOT, PhD The American Studies Association is proud to recognize the continuing high level of scholarship examining American cultures. The ASA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality Studies awards the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize to an independent scholar and/or contingent or community college faculty member who ...

Contributor! The Colored Girls Museum Digital Exhibition

21 September 2020 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

(September 21- October 9 2020) Excited to participate with some phenomenal creatives in The Colored Girls Museum's digital exhibition and tribute to Toni Morrison's eighth novel “Love” section of “Songs of Toni Morrison: Psalms For A Time Like This.” Guest Curator - Vilna Bashi Treitler @vtreitler. Over the next two weeks, ...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness: Podcast Season 2 Debuts September 2020!

24 August 2020 Belonging to Blackness Podcast: Episodes, SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

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Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Special Episode (YouTube Release): #UPRISINGS 2020, Part 2, Global Perspectives

09 June 2020 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

(YouTube Release) Journeys of Belonging to Blackness Channel on June 11 2020 “We use our craft, our artistry to uplift people. Despite our location, it has not deterred our Black consciousness. We have not left the community. I am physically removed from the community but I am spiritually connected as ...

My NYT Interview and Talking My Own Journey of Belonging to Blackness

16 November 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

A few weeks ago I wrote an op-ed published in the Brooklyn Eagle that shared the significance of my family history, particularly that of my grandfather, the history of my childhood home in Clinton Hill Brooklyn, and my thoughts and emotions regarding a racist Halloween art display that hung in ...

Racist Art Display + Halloween 2019

31 October 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

It’s Halloween y’all! For folks who have been following this news story in the NYT, Amersterdam News, the NY Post and the Brooklyn Eagle, I was horrified to find out my childhood home was defiled with racist Halloween art decor in its windows last week. As promised, I wrote ...

Fall: The Season of Transition and Preparation

30 September 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

As much as I enjoy the sun and beach weather, drinking margaritas with friends and a slower pace of life that often accompanies summer time schedules, the months of September and October always seem to remind me of the change ahead. Indeed the days begin to get shorter, the weather cooler, and because I ...

June is Caribbean American Heritage Month

28 June 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

For folks that know me, celebrating my Caribbean heritage is an important aspect of my ethnic and personal identity that I am proud to talk about and display at every opportunity. Whether it is blasting the latest soca and calypso song through my car’s speakers, cooking Caribbean meals for my ...

The Nostalgia of School Daze

27 May 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

If you are an aficionado of Black “coming of age” comedies and commentaries that embed Black culture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, then you can appreciate my reference to Spike Lee’s 1988 film School Daze and NBC’s TV sitcom A Different World (1987-1993). Both were firsts (on the ...

Musings on Black Love as Self-Love

27 April 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I went through the exercise of identifying and framing, for my desk, three quotes from up and coming African descended women poets: Alexandra Elle, Upile Chisala and Cleo Wade. Claim it. All of it. Release what no longer serves you. Journey forward. Be unanswered. Be ...

Hair, Hair, oh,Glorious Hair is NOT Innocuous

02 April 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

Hair, hair, hair, hair... Grow it, show it... Long as I can grow it... My hair.. I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggyRatty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleamingStreaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka dottedTwisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied..."Hair" by ...

Sisterhood is Family

06 March 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey We often set aside the month of March to celebrate and acknowledge the accomplishments of women, both the sung and unsung sheroes in history, culture and innovation. I particularly enjoy taking the time to pay homage to the ...

If you think Blackface is cool, then you support white supremacy–and we can’t be friends…

13 February 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

Full stop. Wearing bronzer and foundation 7+ more shades darker than your natural skin tone, exaggerating and bastardizing certain physical features, dress, music, vernacular in a Sambo-like fashion, whether it’s for Halloween, your yearbook page, for an office party, or a “fun” prank—is Intolerable. Full stop. I, too, am including you if you are a ...

Black History Month 2019: A Reflective Essay

05 February 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.President Gerald R. Ford (1976) Since 1976, the month of February has been designated as Black History Month, a time in which the U.S. (and now the U.K, Canada and the ...

The Journey Begins…

29 January 2019 SHOUT-OUTS: Announcements and Other Musings

I once read somewhere that writers who don't accept they're on a journey into the unknown will never produce works that last in the hearts and minds of their audience. My journey as a writer or storyteller is one that demonstrates how I, as a reader myself, am drawn to enduring ...

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