PinnedPatrick Jonathan DerilusAn Anecdote To Rap: A Happy 50th Birthday and Thank You Letter To Hip-HopHip-Hop is an extensively pronounced variation of The Dozens. I just want to give a special thanks to the art form.12 min read·Aug 11, 2023----
PinnedPatrick Jonathan DerilusAcademia Has Outlived Its Usefulness: Palestinian Solidarity Encampments And My Experience as A…The thought of returning to school has invoked more trauma than I have allowed myself to admit experiencing.8 min read·Apr 23, 2024----
PinnedPatrick Jonathan DerilusAppreciating My Black Body For What It IsI decided to publish this here and share the difficult but necessary journey toward appreciating my Black body for what it is.8 min read·Mar 26, 2024----
PinnedPatrick Jonathan DerilusA Calling: I don’t call it “god”I gradually began to believe these occurrences happened because they are in part of the collective struggle for better.13 min read·Feb 28, 2023----
Patrick Jonathan DerilusArbitraryThe core at which all efforts are made in order to survive succeed the necessity to probe the essence of time.3 min read·Apr 15, 2024----
Patrick Jonathan DerilusSensesThe coming of age for Black people is a circadian milestone.3 min read·Feb 15, 2024----
Patrick Jonathan DerilusSide-eyePerhaps it’s the preexisting conditions that we’re exposed to that makes us tired.5 min read·Feb 13, 2024----
Patrick Jonathan DerilusBlack Lives Matter: It’s Not A Question, It’s An AphorismToday marks ten years since three Queer Black women created ‘Black Lives Matter:3 min read·Jul 14, 2023----
Patrick Jonathan DerilusThe Immovable Black Lumpenproletariat: The Futility of White Supremacist State-Sanctioned…It should be made clear, if in any case there was no critical observation of this phenomena, that in our, to use ancestor bell hooks’…10 min read·Feb 24, 2023----
Patrick Jonathan DerilusMediation“Consciousness is the opposite of indifference, of blindness, blankness.”2 min read·Feb 20, 2023--1--1