...Fahima Ife Abstract An excerpt from an experimental series, “Grief Aesthetics” is a lyrical essay on intimacy and writing. The essay participates in the double black study of eroding and composing a new sentence, a new sentence sounded in refusal (of the social pact of writing, of grammar), a new...

... with an occasion to think about how the gothic character of black life emerges in the sensual and sensorial performance of mourning and artful response to grief. Works Cited Alexander Elizabeth . “ Can You Be BLACK and Look at This? ” In Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America , edited...

... of faith and grief as part of the soundtrack to everyday black life. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Ryan Waller 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). hip‐hop haunting black life ghetto psychic states...

... through grief and anger. One of the first things I noticed while I was grieving for the state of black lives in America—I noticed these crows every morning outside of my window at dawn. So loud! And so many. And I felt like I'd never had an encounter with wildlife in the city that was quite so...

... Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing . New York : Bloomsbury , 2011 . ife fahima . “ Grief Aesthetics .” liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 6 , no. 1 ( 2022 ): 86 – 95 . Jackson Zakiyyah Iman . Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning...

... there. Kristin Juarez: This has all been happening while I was preparing for this interview with you. I've been reading your catalog and weeping. And to echo Judy [Hussie-Taylor] in her introduction to your catalog, here we are in gratitude and grief. 28 I was watching some footage [from Sitting On a Man's...

... in horror. To scream is a physiological response to terror, yes, but it's also something born of laughter, grief, ecstasy, or rage, all of which ultimately represent catharsis. The disturbance and collapse of these expressive, emotional boundaries is the lifeblood of any great horror climax. Consider...

... by and inseparable from the artist's own lived experiences, black work, they explain, requires the work of “holding that space of tension” between blackness as an irreparable violent creation and as replete with possibilities. 8 Ross amplifies this very tension in Etheric Bridge: winter's grief conjoined...

... in a state of collective agitation. Traces of homes’ absent owners—usually described as “abandoned”—are visible everywhere. In 2015 during the “Baltimore Uprising” young people burst onto these streets in protest and grief over the police's deadly treatment of Freddie Gray and the city's long history...