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god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

#lmao me rn with studying #text #procrastination

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someone yell at me to study like srsly YELL AT ME

#be mean to me oh my god #keshika rambles

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does anyone feel the layer of plexiglass between themselves and the rest of the world or is that just a me thing

#oh it's a universal experience #thank god #text

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saw someone i follow on instagram call biden an "ice cream stuffing genocidal monster" and couldn't agree more

#keshika rambles

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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

(i believe he currently has no estate or family that can profit from his works, as the last owner of the estate was his landlady who recently died.)

James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

#james baldwin #to watch #to read

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Spider-woman Pavitra Prabhakar for a commissioner🕷️

Commissions are now open!

#wow!!! #fan art #spider woman

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who is the first david you think of when you hear the name david

#ew david! #david from schitt's creek lol #in the tags

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Guys please do not break the boycott and subscribe to Disney plus to watch the eras tour movie. I know we all love Taylor and want to watch this movie but what’s happening in Palestine right now is so much more important and this movie is truly not worth breaking the boycott for. I’m pretty sure you can still rent the film elsewhere. Free Palestine.

#is the eras tour movie really more important than supporting a company that literally gives money TOWARDS genocide???? #palestine #boycott disney

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I'm at the point I only wear my mask crowded places because i rarely leave the house and everytime I was getting sick I was getting REALLY sick. So I am microdosing on germs. But whenever I am with my family they are like "Catherine we are so worried about you. You are going to get so sick for wearing a mask all the time. Your body won't be able to handle germs" okay get over it. I'll stay relatively healthy over here while yall are continuously sick

ooh this experience is so relatable. the entirety of 2020 and 2021 i did not get sick because i was so scared of removing my mask in public and i basically didn't even drink water in a public place or if other ppl were around. and i didn't even get so much as a sniffle. when covid restrictions started to relax in india around 2022... that's when i started to get sick... but even then, not as much as i used to pre-covid. i think it was more because other ppl weren't strictly adhering to mask usage. mask usage only works for disease prevention when everyone wears masks. also.... it's totally fine to want to keep yourself from getting sick by using a mask. 100% fine. i used to get super sick atleast twice a year pre-covid... and that occurrence has come down now post-covid. all thanks to masks.

#i do wish they didn't create so much of an environmental impact tho :/ #ask #imhereonthekitchenfloor

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Her name is Taylor, and she’ll be your host ✨ a few hours earlier ✨ than expected! Join us March 14 at 9pm ET to watch Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) on Disney+. 🦋🫶💜🧣🏙️🐍💘🌿🌳🕰️

Experience the ENTIRE concert film, beginning to end, including “cardigan” and 4 additional songs from the acoustic set (pssst: watch to the end of the trailer).

#this addition!! #boycott disney #palestine #the eras tour movie #videos

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Darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

#still one of her best mv's #blank space

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I need us all to be aware and awake at all times. As elections approach you are going to see many misleading headlines, it hasn't gone unnoticed by those in power that the average usamerican at the very least sympathizes with the palestinian plight. Please put in the work of actually reading past headlines, of researching what is being done. Ask yourself: is it enough? why until now? can I expect them to keep on doing this once my vote has been cast? And again please, please spend more than two seconds reading a misleading headline.

I've seen this headline be passed around as a win. It is not.

Those two are not the same things. Kamala Harris is saying she wants a 'cease-fire' which implies a finality. A permanent end to this genocide, something potential voters are asking for. But she's actually proposing a 'pause' a six week pause. Don't let them fool you. Keep pushing.

#us politics #palestine

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About to rearrange and sort my bookshelves! What are your favorite ways to sort your bookshelves?

#i shelved them based on 'books i've read' & 'books i haven't read' #that's it #polls

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basically every day i feel like i have to post this meme i made a while back

#why!! would!! you!! stop!!!??? #idk if it's because i'm a healthcare worker but wearing masks has just been my everyday routine ever since covid #i almost always never leave the house without a mask #and me doing that reminds my family to wear their masks too #y'all pls wear your masks!

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have you heard about what happened to mai rajab?

this is so so sad oh my gosh.

#um.... wow #in the middle of a fucking genocide?? #white women be white women-ing #gaia thomas #palestine

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*no chicago bc it would obviously sweep lol

#minneapolis #because i actually did live there for a year and it was hands down one of the best years of my life #never ever forgetting how the place and the ppl made me feel 💯 #so warm so comforting #cleveland ohio can suck ass sorry not sorry #i lived there prior to moving to minneapolis and you would not believe how many ppl can be racist towards a 7 yr old indian in cleveland #polls

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if you aren’t self-assured & confident as a woman this world will literally chew you up and spit you out

#girlhood