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The Comedy is Over

October 29, 2016 Alexander Billet

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, ‘Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.’ Man bursts into tears. Says, ‘But doctor... I am Pagliacci.’ Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains." – Rorschach, Watchmen

It’s easy to say that it’s because of Halloween. But why this Halloween? Why not last year or the year before? Will 2016 (already an ignominious year) be remembered as the year that sent in the clowns?

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In Commentary, October 2016 Tags clowns, performance, capitalism, neoliberalism, police brutality

Diamond Reynolds' Chorus

August 5, 2016 Colleen Asper
Diamond Reynolds (center), who live-streamed the death of her fiance Philando Castile at the hands of police on her phone.

Diamond Reynolds (center), who live-streamed the death of her fiance Philando Castile at the hands of police on her phone.

This text begins with facts, they will not be argued here. We live in a police state founded on white supremacy. Philando Castile has been murdered along with thousands of others for being black. For white supremacy blackness is both a necessary other and its greatest threat.

Any analysis of what Diamond Reynolds did when she livestreamed the aftermath of Philando Castile’s murder will be incomplete and totally insufficient to meet the demands of her call for justice. “Truth makes a hole in knowledge.”

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In Commentary, August 2016 Tags racism, film, police brutality

Art Against Global Apartheid

May 23, 2016 The Editors

Ferguson, Missouri

The sign, homemade, carried by a protester, reads “Ferguson to Gaza, Intifada, Intifada.” The slogan is more than a sentiment, more than a simple but powerful statement of solidarity. It is all of these things, but much more too. It is an explicit recognition of the world’s reality, far beyond Ferguson or Gaza.

"Apartheid" in today's world does not describe just a particular legal circumstance in this or that corner of the globe. It is, in varied and intricate ways, a fact of daily life under neoliberalism. Global capital communicates to us in any political, economic or aesthetic language it can muster: "This world is not yours, and you do not belong here."

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In Editorial, May 2016 Tags geography, art, music, Afrofuturism, Afropunk, racism, police brutality

Camp Camp, Bang Bang

February 19, 2016 Jennifer Chukwu

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Cave Scape #3, 2010, ink on paper, 6 ¼ x 10 in., (James Cohan Gallery, New York)

Enter Donita Van Pop. She sits down on a swing set that is located on the left side of the stage. The stage lighting is a mixture of bright pink and purple. She sits on the swing, and the scenery behind her switches from a blank wall to a dreadful park background. It is of trees, bushes, and a few flowers and looks like the picture you drew in kindergarten that your poor parents were obligated to place on the fridge. Such a shame. You really made the kitchen ugly for almost a year.

Donita Van Pop:  The world is mad. (Puffs her cigarette) But when you have great tits like me, it’s a little less. (Ms. Pop readjusts her bra strap that peeks out of her black and white polka dot dress. She takes another puff of her cigarette)

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In Prose, February 2016 Tags Jennifer Chukwu, racism, sexism, police brutality, feminism, drama, performance, sexuality, media

Justice for Larry Jackson

October 29, 2015 Austin Artists Against Police Brutality

We made this song in memory of Larry Jackson, We made this song for LaKiza.
We made this song for the community.
We made this song to heal.
We made this song to pressure the judge to NOT DISMISS THE CASE.

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In Audio, Halloween & November 2015 Tags hip-hop, rap, racism, police brutality, Austin Artists Against Police Brutality

When Hip-Hop Hits the Streets

September 4, 2015 Alexander Billet
Scene from the video for Kendrick Lamar's "Alright"

Scene from the video for Kendrick Lamar's "Alright"

It’s been a year since the death of Michael Brown, a year since the rebellion in Ferguson, a year since the Black Lives Matter movement began to shift the conversation in just about every avenue of American life. That shift can be seen in politics (from #BowDownBernie to Donald Trump’s threats to beat up protesters) and economics (the Black Youth Project’s embrace of the Fight for 15). It can also be seen, perhaps most obviously, in our culture — and in music, in particular.

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In Commentary, September 2015 Tags hip-hop, soul, racism, police brutality, protest, music, kendrick lamar, janelle monae, wondaland, alexander billet

Baltimore Poems

July 1, 2015 Trish Kahle

from the street: a wounded howl,
fuck the police and it echoes from the prisons,
fuck the police
the anger which vibrates somewhere low
in their chests, weighted down
by one too many
unwarranted traffic stops
when the tail light
wasn’t out, and the time
they killed that person--
no, not Mike Brown, the other time. no,

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In Poetry, July 2015 Tags Trish Kahle, poetry, racism, police brutality, urban rebellion

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