Reflections: New Year, Career, Music, School

Its a new year and a new semester. I am enjoying getting into the flow. I am approaching the end of grad school and thinking about how I want to shape my future. My career vision? Niya Friday, community archivist, artist, memory worker extraordinaire. Mixing art and creativity with marginalized histories. I imagine lots of travel and research. Lots of laughter and storytelling. LOTS OF ART!!!! many collaborative projects and good people.
Full moon in cancer at the start of the month was lovely. I love my friends so much. We ate Alpaca Peruvian Chicken, I made a cranberry swirled pound cake, and we shared what was on our hearts.

I learned about the collective memory database which then put me onto {B/qKC} super cool work. Reminding me why I am in school and what I want to do with my education and skills.
I was planning to see kokoroko in Charlotte this month but weather could not permit… Thankfully it was postponed. We have kokoroko at home in the meantime!!! Looking forward to the live concert experience.

My top album of the month is Days before Dreamboy by Lil Nas X. I was put on by sister over the summer. I didn’t really pay it any mind. Then I listened to the full project I am extremely impressed by the lyricism and production. Its fun and funny, I love good word play, come on double entendre!!!!
I want to be Black in every life time
This months zine of the month is a reversible Babyboy minizine. I wanted to make a pop culture zine. I also wanted to talk about my film reflections. There is this woman on TikTok who is watching Black classics with her older white friend. They were watching Babyboy and the white woman was sobbing. I thought to myself about how this film is embedded in Black American pop culture. Perhaps as a movie that plays in the background, always was on BET and is so tragically sad. What does that mean for me that its a comfort movie? Maybe not something I turn on to make feel comfortable but something that if on feels familiar and homey. Something im pondering.
My roommate and I are Traitors the reality game show watchers. The new season began this January. My thoughts?!? I am still compiling them but whats on my mind is:
- implicit bias, race and personality, building trust, and natural alliances. Maybe it will shape into a essay maybe it’ll shape into a voice note.
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