EditorialVie DarlingNovember 25, 2020contemporary art, institution, rap/hip-hop, race relations, black power, blackness, sociology, identity, identity politics, revolution, hip-hop, philosophy, politics, media, music, op-ed, opinion editorial Comment

Body Piece: The Social Exploitation of the Body

In this less than ideal world in which we live-- fraught with unjust hierarchies rooted in absurd and erroneous assumptions, plagued by an enormous disparity in resources and quality of life, belabored by oppressive systems -- few of us can easily escape the asphyxiating weight of those things that seek to destroy us because it is built into the exploitative systems that govern our lives. We are forced to live within the perilous framework of a society that seeks our destruction, keeping us alive only enough to sustain its own vampiric siphoning of our life force.

scholarly articleVie DarlingJuly 13, 2020philosophy, sociology, body piece, mental health, mental illness, colorism, disordered eatingComment

You Think You're Loving (But You Don't Love Me)

So many of us are claiming to be looking for love but so unable to find it. That’s because instead of looking for Love— something that lives within each of us— we look for social markers of class and wealth amongst other things we think we do not have but need to have a comfortable existence within society. We look for what will give us not the Spiritual life we have been looking for, but the material life we think we need.

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