ID: A flag with seven vertical stripes, the middle is the same size as all the others put together. The colors are, from left top right, soft light gold, burnt orange, maroon, black, maroon, burnt orange, and soft light gold. END ID
BlackHoleSunica: A gender related to the Soundgarden song Black Hole Sun
The colors are inspired by pictures of black holes
after months of looking on 2nd hand clothing websites/apps i just found a replacement for my favorite pair of doc martens that were from a limited collection years ago! they're practically in brand new condition everyone hope and pray for me that the person selling them replies to me and i get them 😭😭
Claude McKay a Jamaican bisexual poet, novelist, and activist was heavily active during the Harlem Renaissance. His work mainly composed of Black life and experiences, including economic and social inequalities, celebrating Jamaican culture, and challenging racist policies and politics.
He was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on September 15, 1889 to farmers. He was one of eleven children, and one of eight to live to adulthood. His family engrained pride of their African heritage into him and his siblings. His parents, while peasant farmers, were highly respected in the community and in their local church. With experienced planter parents, and their Christian homeschooled education, they were seen as a higher social class (close to the lighter-skinned caste) of Black Jamaicans.
During his education, he studied European philosophers, Romantics, and English poetry. After traveling to the US in 1912, McKay became distraught at the racism he faced there, and the racism that gripped America as a whole. He returned to Jamaica, then traveled to Europe to live.
He found himself invested in communism in the 1920s, thinking that racism would be eliminated under that system. Though in the 1930s, he became critical of communism, viewing it as a political movement motivated mainly by power and wrote about his disillusionment. In the 1930s McKay returned to the U.S. and settled in Harlem, kept his interests in racial politics and became more invested in spirituality and religion, and he eventually converted to Catholicism.
Special Collections & Archives has a copy of Banjo: a story without a plot. This semi-autobiographical novel details the story of a group of Black drifters on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront. Banjo, the main character, wants to rediscover his African roots after a writer named Ray joins his group of friends. The novel combines a pleasure-seeking lifestyle with conversations about race (relations and politics) both in France and abroad. Our copy is signed by the author.
Image taken from Poetry Foundation's article.
Happy Pride Month Everyone! 🥳 ✊🏾🏳️🌈
-Matrice Y, Special Collections, Olson Graduate Assistant
[ID: A flag with nine vertical stripes, all the same size. The colors are darker at the edges and lighter at the middle. The colors are, from left to right, dark indigo-gray, purple-gray, soft purple, dusty pink, light peach, dusty pink, soft purple, purple-gray, and dark indigo-gray. END ID]
BlackPantherica: A gender related to the Kendrick Lamar song Black Panther
The colors are inspired by my associations with the related song