February 2023: SLIM THICC #004

20 things gathered/20 things dispersed.

Bismillah. We begin everything with the name of Allah. We say Bismillah to initiate an act to acknowledge the intention and the ethics we carry with all that follows Bismillah

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And we are back! There are three additional newsletters in the queue for this month alone :) I will use the newsletter throughout the year for the usual shenanigans and deeper dives into individual works, projects, and series. Later this week, you will begin to receive the first of three deep dives. This year, we are not being shy.

For now, browse my 20 things gathered/20 things dispersed.

in the weeds re: buffering, compression, and artifacts.

A fellow student in a poetry class I took on Valentine’s day shared this tweet.

CNN Article

Morrison, Toni. Sula. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

Lispector, Clarice. Água Viva. United States: New Directions, 2012. // From Nina D’Agostini’s Are.na Page

From Wikipedia: Alembics from a 1606 alchemy book. ||| “Drawings of alembics from a Renaissance chemistry book by Andreas Libavius. These were glass and ceramic hoods for vessels used for distillation. The distillation vessel (called the "cucurbit") would be heated by a flame, the liquid inside would boil and the vapor would rise into the alembic, where it would condense by contact with the cool glass walls and run down the spout into a receiving container. Alembics were invented during the Middle Ages for use in alchemy, the protoscientific precursor to chemistry.”

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How to cite this newsletter: Rasheed, K. (Year, Month Day). Newsletter Title. I Will (?) Figure This All Out Later. URL

Be Well,

Kameelah 👽