Hood Vacations — Jones, Michal, — "Michal "MJ" Jones' debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling--an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." The speaker of Hood Vacations tells of magic: of praying mantises, bathtub octopuses, Black ghosts, & bringing back "rainbow soap colors." It is a book of passing--as, through, and on. Hop on in."--
THE HOOD BOTANICA™
The Hood Botanica is a platform where we discuss + hold livestreams, on topics Spirituality through an Afro-Centric Perspective; and provide Spiritual Tools for healing Melanated People.
Hoodoo as Practice | Linktree
A hub for my curriculum "Hoodoo As Practice," linking Black spirituality, liberation, activism, and political awareness together for waking Black folk.
Why some young Black Christians are practicing hoodoo
The ancestral religious practices of the African diaspora were forced underground by the White...
Haints, Hollers, and Hoodoo
A dark spirit lives on your porch,” the medium told me. Excuse me? Prickles of dread and fear blossomed in my chest. What the hell am I supposed to do about that? I was only beginning my journey in…
Our Little Red One Shop | Hoodoo
Our Little Red One Shop is a black-owned metaphysical shop in Houston, TX that specializes in hoodoo and other spiritual practices. We were founded in 2017, and we are located in the middle of Third Ward in Houston, TX. Our Little Red One Shop provides a safe space for those in the community, and offers a range of products to help you maintain your spiritual life. We specialize in various spiritual readings that aim to provide clarity, unlock inner power, and help you find answers.
ATproto Wrapped — your year on the ATmosphere
Drop a Bluesky handle and we'll pull the entire repo from your PDS and turn every lexicon — posts, likes, scrobbles, the long-tail stuff — into a magazine-style spread.
poetic web: unfolding spiral
'poetic web: unfolding spiral' is a non-linear text I wrote as part of my bachelor thesis at the HFBK Hamburg. Driven by curiosity about the poetic web, the object of the text rather became the opening of a reflective space, where I could touch on the constraints and possibilities of language, words, worlds, and their artifacts, relation and meaning-making, smoothness, attention, and agency, and see how subtle shifts in understanding allowed for words to restructure and new meanings to grow.
Ghetto Koans by James Cagney | East Bay Booksellers
The Japanese word ‘ koan’ is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding.
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Esotericism in One Piece: Navigating Magic, Symbolism and Spirituality
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Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films
The unparalleled commercial sucessess that gospel-playwright-turned-screenwriter Tyler Perry has attained through converting his stage plays into films that depict black women overcoming personal crises raises questions about the intent behind his seemingly feminist-inspired representations of black womanhood. Through an analysis of the rhetoric of healing in Perry’s first two films, this essay reveals one of the suppressive pedagogical functions of Perry’s representation of black womanhood. Rhetorics of healing are a series of persuasive messages, performances, and literacy acts that writers deploy in order to convince readers that redressing or preventing crises requires them to follow the curriculum for ideological, communicative, and behavioral transformation that the writer considers essential to wellness. In Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion, Perry’s representation of rhetorical healing constructs black Christian women as students who must learn prescribed attitudes and behaviors to achieve, or remain in, states of wellness, and these lessons reinforce conservative gender ideologies and reify patriarchal constructions of the family and home. Given black women’s historically tenuous relationships with representations of themselves and their families in mainstream film, and given the ways in which their labor in the home is simultaneously desired and exploited, the popularity of Perry’s films does not suggest that his representations of healing foster black women’s self-empowerment. Rather, his popularity points to a moment where black women’s pain is a commodity and their instructive journeys to wellness are an exploited site where writers can carry out their own agendas.
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