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disturbing as it is to see the use of images of Rihanna’s violated face by the trolls, perhaps we might reckon the provocation to think about the deep ties between domestic violence and nationalist fantasies.
Riri didn’t just break open the domestic, she wrote from her pain into her music. she builds with heartbreak.
the nationalist fantasy is built on the refusal of heartbreak. but it is eventual. the straight & narrow promised by the normative offers something simple to work with.
the nationalist fantasy is built on the refusal of heartbreak. but it is eventual. the straight & narrow promised by the normative offers something simple to work with.
what does it mean to find “love in a hopeless place”? it is refusal of a simple solution. the lack of a program.
to focus on her tweet and not locate it in the history of how black women laboured in the belly of the beast, is to ignore that we can only abolish while we create.
to focus on her tweet and not locate it in the history of how black women laboured in the belly of the beast, is to ignore that we can only abolish while we create.
Riri reminds us not to turn not to turn to the strength of will or resilience but our weak, tender, broken hearts.
we must sit with with the grief of Navreet’s murder, the loneliness of Nodeep’s incarceration, and the many losses without a name to us.
we must sit with with the grief of Navreet’s murder, the loneliness of Nodeep’s incarceration, and the many losses without a name to us.
