Sightlines
JovonnaWriting with pictures, passages, memories, and loose notes in my camera roll.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 19 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Ancestral Stirrings After a Hunter’s Moon
Ekua Holmes, “Girl—Literature,” collage.
There was a full moon waning last night, arresting me from the parking deck before I left campus. It was October’s “Hunter’s Moon,” or the “Migration Moon” to the Cree who honor the birds’ seasonal...
Art for Violet’s Sake
Aaron Siskind, “Street Scene #1 (from Harlem Document)”, 1940. Studio Museum in Harlem.
Last week, I watched TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025) and it completely changed how I taught Toni Morrison’s Jazz yesterday. Mos...
Mama, I Want to Sing
Standing in front of my grandmother’s vanity, June 19, 2015
Posted 10 Years Ago. A young Black woman with an Afro adjusts herself at the center of the arc. She wears denim overalls over a white t-shirt, grounds herself in her sneakers. The...
Lead with the Questions: how my new seminar on PoV is going
[from Google Images when I searched “lifestyle vlog”; and also the syllabus graphic]
I’m teaching a new undergrad seminar on identity, media, and aesthetics. We’re moving through some good and dense readings. The best convos so far have co...
Half A Year in Coloring Pages
I haven’t posted much to my newsletter. I stopped writing. Not for my book project—if I write nothing else, this book WILL see the light of day—but I stopped writing anything pertaining to vision, photography, visual art. I stopped feeling...
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