Ruth Gebreyesus

1 month ago | thisismold.com | Ruth Gebreyesus

Border Ecologies is a two-part inquiry into borders, exploring their ecological reality along with their economic and political origin and uses. How do you make injera? How do you make a nation? In every telling I’ve heard since leaving Ethiopia, injera refuses to be made outside of its homeland. Every story of a successfully baked injera in the United States, even in neighboring Sudan, is either a rumor, a failure, or a belabored experiment that loses integrity and appeal.

Sep 20, 2023 | momus.ca | Ruth Gebreyesus |with Rhizome

Free from an autobiographical or narrative format that would encourage an epic spun out from a punctum, Christina Sharpe’s newest book, Ordinary Notes, casts another distinct shape. Sharpe’s 248 notes pile up to form a pointed, sculptural thesis on the destabilized life of the Black diaspora. By this I mean that the notes themselves have an uneven nature to them that texture and construct the book.

Sep 20, 2023 | momus.ca | Ruth Gebreyesus |with Rhizome

Free from an autobiographical or narrative format that would encourage an epic spun out from a punctum, Christina Sharpe’s newest book, Ordinary Notes, casts…