Sasha Ann Panaram
@SashaPanaram
Assistant Professor @FordhamNYC | African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture | @Georgetown & @DukeU Alumna
Sweeping Guyana into the Global Frame | @SashaPanaram "At stake in LaBennett’s brilliant contribution to Caribbean studies with Global Guyana is how we might read, listen to, and look for Guyana" smallaxe.net/sxsalon/review…
"To sustain poetry in the absence of its radical muse—left collective political action—to sustain poetry when there is no inspiration, that was my work." -- Dionne Brand via @JewishCurrents jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-of…
Had to grab the Canadian version of Dionne Brand’s Salvage while in town. Love the cover!
Caught a few incredible documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier in June. First time attending and already can’t wait for next year.
"Toni Morrison loved being an editor. She fought for her writers and with them when necessary." -- Martha Southgate via @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/06/17/boo…
“If you center Black women in your political work and cultural work, then you’re cooking with gas.” — dream hampton @FordFoundation
This piece, “Ghost Note,” from the Lorna Simpson: Source Notes exhibit @metmuseum continues to haunt me.
Reviewed Oneka LaBennett's latest book Global Guyana for @sxsalon. As I write in the review, "LaBennett reminds readers that we cannot tell the history of Guyana without careful attention to its women and girls." Check it out and go get the book! smallaxe.net/sxsalon/review…
"[Lorna] Simpson is contemporary art's astronomer of the archives, always searching for the dark matter that 'documentary' images conceal." -- @jcljules via @NewYorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
“Why not imagine a new radical set of arrangements? Why not imagine more than what seems reasonable?” — Saidiya Hartman @FordhamNYC
"We are overjoyed that Preston will remain open for young women in the Bronx. It’s beyond a school. It’s about the future of the Bronx, New York and even the country, because these are our future leaders." -- Jackeline Stewart-Hawkins via @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/04/22/nyr…
