«The Anthropocene is a project initiated and executed through anti-Blackness and inhuman subjective modes, from 1492 to the present, and it cannot have any resolution through individuated liberal modes of subjectivity and subjugation. In short, that world must end for another relation to the earth to begin.»
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«Black and brown death is the precondition of every Anthropocene origin story, and the grammar and graphia of this geology compose a regime for producing contemporary subjects and subtending settler colonialism.»
«Geology is a category and praxis of dispossession.»
« No geology is neutral.»
"geology is a racialized optic razed on the earth"
« Moving toward the idea of a billion Black Anthropocenes spotlights that which is already centered in the Anthropocene—race—and would refuse the structural Whiteness of the Anthropocene in its current formation, potentially toward other, more accountable, decolonized, geosocial futures. This is why the formulation is (after Silva) toward the idea of a billion Black Anthropocenes and not posed as an alter-cene, in any of its guises as Capitalocene, Chulthocene, Plantationocene, and so on. An idea of a Black Anthropocene poses the question as a redescription of the Anthropocene through the racializing assemblage from which it emerged, rather than claiming a space for Blackness within or outside the Anthropocene (which it is not my place to do precisely because of the colonial histories that have scripted and described the terms of Blackness). This would be to acknowledge how the pursuit of geology made race a technology at its inception. »
lichen wants to read The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
lichen wants to read Lote by Shola von Reinhold

Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics …
lichen rated Gender Queer: A Memoir: 5 stars

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Gender Queer: A Memoir is a 2019 graphic memoir written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe. It recounts Kobabe's journey from …
lichen rated Life Isn't Binary: 3 stars
lichen rated The lie and how we told it: 4 stars

The lie and how we told it by Tommi Parrish
Parrish's emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author's themes: …
lichen wants to read Planetary Mine by Martin Arboleda
lichen wants to read Change Everything by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Change Everything by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Racial, gender, and environmental justice. Class war. Militarism. Interpersonal violence. Old age security. This is not the vocabulary many use …
lichen wants to read Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick
lichen wants to read Your Computer Is on Fire by Benjamin Peters

Your Computer Is on Fire by Benjamin Peters, Thomas S. Mullaney, Mar Hicks, and 1 other
Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological …











