By Menoukha Case As my month ends I’ll try to wrap this all up – calendars as signifiers of epistemological differences, crossbloodedness, water stories, and bizarre questions like: are Newton’s laws natural? – in a lumpy bumpy bundle. And thank you all for the great honor of doing this in visibility to your [...]
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From Sweet to Salty & Back Again
Posted in menoukha case, tagged Afrophobic, Baba, bembe, children of the ile', crossbloodedness, EuS, ibi, Kelley Williams-Bolar, Obatala, Ojibwe, olo, Oshun, Oya, Padrino, Santero, trono, yemoja, Zora Neale Hurston on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Beyond Newton: The Heart of the Ancestors
Posted in menoukha case, tagged law, Newton, Newtonian, quantum on January 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Menoukha Case 2009: Three of us were in the car when the 5 traffic lights at 18 junctions in Bartleby simultaneously turned and stayed red. People jockeyed for position, waved fists. Then all the lights turned green and you could see their faces realize only co-operation undoes gridlock. Some helped folks move in [...]
Water Talks: Rights & Cultures
Posted in menoukha case, tagged map, water dream, yemaya, yemoja on January 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Menoukha Case Water is life. Without it, nothing grows. Fresh water is in jeopardy. What to do about this depends on who’s talking. Is it a sacred trust or a chemistry problem? Is it our patriotic right or a political pawn? Is it a human right or “blue gold,” the latest corporate [...]
Pill Pop Vox: Water Redemption in 3 Rooms
Posted in menoukha case, tagged pill pop, river, water on January 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Menoukha Case Room 3B: In Dan’s Defense Approach the building and you’ll hear Dan’s anthem, a rewrite to the tune of “Cindy,” the one and only hit left behind by Lorraine Hansberry’s sometime husband, Bobbie Nemiroff. It’s where our pasts quilt together as a security blanket: my Mom had known Bobbie since he [...]
Crossbloods, Bead by Bead
Posted in menoukha case, tagged braid, Eje, Khakas, Shaman, Tengri Drum on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Menoukha Case Anishinaabe Ojibwe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor says he’s crossblood. Not mixed-blood like a lot of native texts: crossblood. When I heard him speak at University at Albany this winter, I wondered if that particular self-representation of his self-envisioning had anything to do with the way he appeared to oppose [...]
North American New Year Day
Posted in menoukha case, tagged new year on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Menoukha Case It’s North American New Year Day & my mind is a spectrum that’s not quite a rainbow: There’s a reddish streak of my own skeptical resistance to social constructions instigated by the Gregorian Calendar’s subtle imbrication in persistent hierarchical heritages of slickly harsh imperialist moves associated with how a 1582 Christian [...]
Welcome January Blogger, Menoukha Case!
Posted in menoukha case, tagged january blogger on January 1, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Introducting January Blogger, Menoukha Case! Menoukha Case’s poem/book, Tidal River Sediment, is published by Main Street Rag. Her visual poems are in Xtant and her artwork appears in Fingernails Across a Chalkboard: A Literary and Artistic View of HIV/AIDS Affecting People of Color, and on the covers of Randall Horton’s Lingua Franca of [...]
