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December 26, 2025 76 mins

Jemma DeCristo RETURNS! Her new book The Aesthetic Character of Blackness is out, and covers how revolutionary Black art is co-opted by capitalists and the state, and art's limits as a revolutionary tool (and it's widespread use as a counterinsurgent one).

 

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us (Duke University Press)

https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-aesthetic-character-of-blackness

 

Support Dahnoun Mutual Aid (Direct Support for People in Gazan)

https://chuffed.org/project/115245-dahnoun-mutual-aid

 

Previously:

Jemma on the Transgender Cultural District

https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-transgender-f-105793639

 

Jemma and Ralowe on the narrowness of Leftist organizing on (the app) Signal

https://www.patreon.com/posts/against-signal-123358271

 

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