stony morrison, PhD
@rrandolphjr
pleasure theorist | dad | educator | writer | sensualist | vernacularist | morrison/baldwin/hooks acolyte | country boy | phd in educational/cultural studies 🌺
I’ll be reading my newly published essay live on Twitter Spaces. Join me as I theorize my own journey of pleasure and poetics. And let’s talk after. 🖤 #EssayReading #BlackWriters #LitTalk
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Her “are you ready to go” floored me 🤣🤣😭
Grandma standing on business 🤣🤣🤣. She do what she wanna do 🤷♀️
Needed a pair of earrings bc i forgot mine so I thought “oh i’ll just run in Forever 21 right quick” then I remembered and i just-
They move as if there is a camera on them even when it’s not. I can only imagine how exhausting it is. From ring camera footage to being on the jumbo screen at an event we are a part of the surveillance at this point.
Ok Ms Sullivan I think we are ready for the next one. 🙋🏾♂️
19 Grammys
An unpublished NYT image of Leontyne Price photographed by Sara Krulwich at her final Metropolitan Opera House performance (1985) | Over the course of her 25-year career, Leontyne received 19 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Literally stunned the audience
Happy 98th Birthday to Leontyne Price! The greatest opera singer who ever lived! 💛
The Leontyne Price biopic. That’s the one we need.
i cannot stop thinking about the clip i saw of leontyne price talking about—praising—her voice. it is incredible.
- y’all have got to know that I’m grinning from ear to ear! favorite show of all time.
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I had a conversation with Derrais Carter, and now I cannot look at Marvin Gaye or this song the same again. “Who do you think he’s singing to?” the scholar asked.
When Marvin Gaye was laying down on a couch singing like the rent is due on “I want You”
Miles’ trumpet floats, Ron Carter’s bass grounds it—‘Autumn Leaves’ never sounded so rich and alive…
Wrote this collection about Ogun Owo, the grief of unexplainable disappearances happening in Nigeria—ritual killings, human body parts black markets, soka, etc. I decided to tell the story we Nigerians are pushing under the carpet. 1994 to present day.
I’ll say this as I’ve said in a lot of gender discourse: Marginalization in one axis doesn’t grant you innocence on another.
She doesn't care anyway lol