6/14/18 review of the book Body and Soul, by Alondra Nelson

Here is the link to my June 14, 2018, Twitter thread review of the book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, by Alondra Nelson.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

2/20/18 review of book The Social Life of DNA, by Alondra Nelson

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome, by Alondra Nelson.

The thread gives a summary of the book and some background on Alondra Nelson and how I learned about her. The book discusses how African Americans have used DNA tests to trace their origins in Africa and how that has helped them heal. The thread, while discussing examples, also gives a lot of videos of the subject matter Professor Nelson discusses. The thread also compares Nelson's work with some other works.

The tweets in many of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected as a result. My apologies.

10/20/17 review of MoMA panel on Authority, Appropriation, and the Democratic Imagination

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Museum of Modern Art's 2017 panel on Authority, Appropriation, and the Democratic Imagination.

The moderator was Glenn Lowry, and the panelists were Alondra Nelson, Homi Bhabha, and Charles Taylor. The thread discussed some of the panel's themes, like cultural appropriation in the arts, authority over one's experiences, democracy and voice, creating convergent spaces in social media, the work of Anna Deavere Smith, giving people a sense of efficacy and authority, and the civic role of museums.

Here is the link to the website for the Museum of Modern Art.