PinnedPatrick Jonathan DerilusStepping Against The Scale: “Health” Is Prescribed For The Human, Never The Black”“For “race” to be constructed, the Slave had to exist — and had to exist as the antithesis of health.” — Da’Shaun, Belly of The BeastAug 10Aug 10
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.Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023
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.Mar 26Mar 26
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.Feb 28, 2023Feb 28, 2023
Patrick Jonathan DerilusDon’t Despair Let’s End The World: A Word for Frank B. Wilderson III’s Afropessimism“Afropessimism is Black people at their best. “Mad at the world” is Black folks at their best.” — Frank B. Wilderson III, AfropessimismAug 6Aug 6
Patrick Jonathan DerilusA Meditation On The Black Condition: No Need For Rhyme Or Reason For Melancholy“Getting help is for mental health is not enough. We live in a world where people don’t want to live in it anymore.Jun 6Jun 6
Patrick Jonathan DerilusA Meandering Word: Negligence, Nihilism And The Nothingness of The AntiBlack Medical Apartheid…It is sad to say but the more the antiBlack apartheid system fails us, the less petrified I am of potentially being killed by it.May 22May 22
Patrick Jonathan Derilusbuy Black; bye, Black lumpenproletariat — a poemNot all skinfolk kinfolk, and the Black elite never were for the Black masses.May 15May 15
Patrick 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.Apr 23Apr 23
