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grounded in his family’s longstanding optimism and his own military service

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Wilson argues that we can interrogate white supremacy’s hold on us and reimagine the ways we think about

it was easy to imagine their future

Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Fiction_Gift_Guide Levi ZendtIn Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani Kayode (19551989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Born in Nigeria, Fani Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, DC, New York, and London, where he produced the bulk of his provocative and often