Take Off Your Shoes Before Entering: A User Guide on How Best To Move Around this Black Feminist Offering/Digital Living Room
Theory + Practice = Praxis is not just a newsletter but a manifestation of my digital Black feminist work. The internet and social media serve as both sites of my Black feminist work and the subject of my work. I grew up wanting to be a hip-hop journalist. I wanted to be dream Hampton, a writer who I was positively obsessed with back in the day, or like Queen Latifah’s fictional character Khadijah James from Living Single, who was the editor-in-chief of Flava magazine. The internet cannibalized magazines, and temporarily, they were replaced with blogs. I have the great fortune of participating in the glory days of the blogosphere. Consider this digital Black feminist offering an ode to the analog days of print media that blends my love and devotion to the internet's old blog days that are responsible for so much of who I am today. Whether you read this newsletter on your desktop or phone (the analytics tell me that most of you use your desktop), you can scroll vertically or flip through like a magazine horizontally. The vibe and intention of this digital offering are that of the Sunday New York Times print edition. If you'd like, you can read it in one sitting, savor it, or return to it whenever you need a break from doom scrolling. I hope this newsletter finds a space in your busy life and that it is something you look forward to appearing in your cluttered inbox. May the writings and the various media shared within these pages animate your thinking, inspire you to think differently and more critically, and encourage you to fall in love more with social justice. As always, I welcome your feedback and questions. You can email me @ lutze@lutzesegu.com, and if you like the newsletter, freely share it with your network. Thank you for visiting my section of the internet.
