I have been meaning to share what has caught my attention, spaces I enjoy and work that has shaped my worldview. Plus I am sharing resources and platforms that have actually helped me navigate my artistic spiral. If you are a member of my blog be sure to check out the pinned post for more art. This newsletter is available to read for free so please share it with your friends.
Also we are boycotting Spotify!
Virtual Events
Virtual Art Studio by Love, Builder of Worlds: Experimentation and Creativity
Sunday 5th April 2026
10am-12noon EDT/UTC-4 (Indianapolis, Miami)
3pm- 5pm WAT/UTC+1 (Dublin, Lagos)
4pm-6pm CEST/UTC+2 (Groningen, Berlin)
Free for members of the blog or €4.40/$5 for non-members
Aliah Sheffield Livestream Concert
Sunday 29th March 2026
7pm EDT/UTC-4 (Indianapolis, Miami)
8pm CDT/UTC-5 (Houston, St Louis)
2am WAT/UTC+1 (Dublin, Lagos)
Starting at $1 then $0.01 increase after each sale
Homegrown Visions Arts Collaborative - Da Black Queers Be Writing is a virtual writing group
Spring Sessions will be held January 11th -May 10th
Every Sunday 6-8pm EST
2nd and 4th Mondays 4-6pm EST
1st, 3rd, & 5th Wednesdays 9:30am-11:30am EST
Free to register
Homegrown Visions Arts Collaborative - Feedback session
Saturday 4th April
Time - TBD
Wednesday, April 1st
6:30 PM EST
Free to register
Art
Heres art inspires my work and outlook, from books to music, TV shows to podcasts here are my spring 2026 recommendations:
Land of Milk and Honey - a straight-forward essay by oneofthemany about challenging the reality of being an immigrant in Ireland
My Workplace Bully - an emotional poem by Katlego expressing the cruelty and bullying they experienced at work
Yearning For Remission - a heartfely poem by Palesa Mou exploring the impact pain can have on a person
Image description: a close up picture of artist Raldie Young, he is wearing a black lace top and white beads. Single title "WRONG/RIGHT" is shown at the bottom of the picture alongside "RALDIE YOUNG" and his logo.
WRONG/RIGHT - Serving as the lead single for his forthcoming 2026 mixtape, PHOENIX,"WRONG/RIGHT" is a bold, high-stakes collision of Alternative R&B, House, and Jersey Club. True to Raldie’s signature eccentric and genre-bending style, the track blends the syncopated rhythms of his Afrobeat roots with driving, underground club production. I was hooked as soon as I heard it.
Ivy Sole is my favourite musician that practices COVID safety - they are a black non-binary artist from Philly creating smooth dreamy and jazzy rap music.
Be sure to check out their song "The Ways (demo)" its one of my favourite songs by them.
To Hive and to Hold – A Solarpunk Interactive Fiction Story by Aleya Jobson
Dismantling the Master's Clock On Race, Space, and Time - A radical book on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips.
If your oppressors reward you? - Poem - a poem about grappling with ambition and success in an unjust world by myself Love, Builder of Worlds
do not fuck the police - BLAQUEHEART
Image Description: A black and white illustration that says "kill all pigs do not fuck them" there's black hearts all around and a disabled black person in office wear shooting a pig dressed as a cop
Art work for Fuck The Police single
Image description: Artwork for Fuck The Police single. It is a screenshot from social media showing an African person wrapped in an Congolese flag standing on a silver car as a police person viciously attacks them.
Fuck The Police (feat. Kelechi Okafor & CHXPMONEY) - a song speaking truth to power regarding the pigs by ItsDjBabyBitch
Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Mondays) Music Video - a music video for my anti-work lofi jazz single, directed by myself Love, Builder of Worlds
Voices of IWA Podcast - a podcast focused on amplifying the voice of women throughout the African Diaspora who have made a choice to practice and live an African lifestyle through the incorporation of African traditions.
Simply More - a memoir by Cynthia Erivo which details her experiences as a Black British artist and entertainer
London - Nina Simone's Baltimore Cover (Live) - a live song cover of Nina Simones cover of Baltimore, recorded in 2024 by myself Love, Builder of Worlds.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - a sci-fi TV show following the ups and downs of cadet life in outer-space, diverse cast and queer representation and liberal themes
Wicked For Good... Was it? - an animated podcast reviewing the film Wicked For Good by oneofthemany, animated by myself, Love, Builder of Worlds
The barbarism of bio essentialism and how it is linked to anti-african sentiments - an essay based on Reddit post detailing the cruelty and anti-african nature of bio essentialism by myself Love, Builder of Worlds
222 years - Tanimoshe Who knows how to do it? - a celebratory post about Haitian Independence coupled with a call to direct action and mutual aid
Resources/Platforms
so very virtual - my favourite substack, its a regular newsletter of online opportunities, virtual events, and helpful resources for these pandemic times
Learn Yoruba for Beginners by Abisola Babatunde - an audiobook for Yorùbá language learners.
tune.of.blackness - a virtual space dedicated to supporting exploration, discovery, and healing for individuals and communities through health and wellness. This space is for queer black people and offered by A.P. (they/themme + we/us) a queer creator + disruptor with an extensive background in mental health, social services, and community organizing.
Yorùbá Yé Mi - an interactive, communicative, introductory, multi-media program intended to provide college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá.
Comradery is a cooperatively owned platform for creatives as an alternative to Substack and Medium. Check out Cooking Fulla Joy for joyful cooking tips from Erica Joy of Cosmic Healing
LettuceMeet - A web tool to help you plan meet ups
Photopea - Free web based Adobe Photoshop alternative
Writing Tips - a microblog entry sharing advice on writing particularly for people that have ADHD or similar symptoms
Divination for Liberation by The People's Oracle - a community space by Dayna Lynn Nuckolls focussed on sidereal astrology as a predictive tool for spiritual, emotional and collective liberation.
Opportunities
Open call for photography, poetry, essays, collages, drawings, paintings, interviews, playlists, multi-media materials, and any other materials that highlight black fatness in a creative and meaningful way.
Open art studio in Dublin, Ireland where creative people can meet in person, work on their own projects and utilise the free materials available with a seasoned artist facilitating the space.
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For more music, essays and poems be sure to check the pinned blog post for my latest artwork
TW: mass murder, ableism, eugenics, human sacrifice
Practicing COVID safety to me is identifying the danger of COVID, trying to avoid getting it, trying to raise awareness and practically supporting others who are picking up where authoritarian nation states and their corporate rulers have failed. They have gone far beyond failure and transitioned into ritualistic mass maiming and killing of people, particularly disabled people, vulnerable people, children, asylum seekers and refugees, elderly people, Africans and the African diaspora, queer people particularly trans people, low paid essential workers like retail and hospitality workers, and medical professionals.
COVID denialism is a money ritual and horrific human sacrifice which has now extended to pets and wild animals. The state has misled their population for money. Capitalism is an evil spirit and politicians alongside their corporate overlords and shareholders, offer up the health of the asset-less (well even those with assets at this point) in exchange for money. This is a long tried and tested money ritual that started with slavery.
My sibling and I watched the movie Subuola, as I watched, the link between the COVID pandemic and human sacrifice became clear to me. I felt disgusted, duped and defrauded by the grand scale of the lies and harm that were being pushed. I felt angry every time I would see or hear that COVID was just a cold or that a person could have a mild version of a severe respiratory virus. The betrayal felt similar to losing my religion.
Human sacrifice is Boris Johnson telling the British public some of their elderly relatives will die. It's Rishi Sunak causing an "Eat Out to Help Out" infection surge which was no doubt a state sponsored human sacrifice to the hospitality industry. (Note Eat Out to Help Out was a Conservative government scheme operating from 3 Aug to 31 Aug 2020, costing £500 million encouraging people to eat in restaurants and ultimately catch COVID-19.) Ireland had a similar scheme called "Stay and Spend".
Some people have experienced cognitive decline, some their eyesight, some their abilities to climb stairs without feeling out of breath. To say they've lost those things hides the truth of the matter. People with more power and assets misled and stole those things from them to increase the amount of capital they are hoarding. The injustice and real life consequences has turned me into a recluse.
When there have been economic downturns in the past and in the earlier stages of the pandemic there were no suggestions from the capital/resource hoarding class to seize offshore accounts and use the estimated trillions to help the average person. Instead, corporations cemented our pandemic trauma with a cost of living crisis, which is just a corporate greed crisis.
While I understand that everyone has various factors that can influence the level of COVID precautions they can employ in their lives I think it is important that we do not see things as a binary, whether we are taking precautions or not. We can all implement some form of COVID safety in our lives.
Written by Love, Builder of Worlds
Edited by Maro Okoro
Image description: Screenshot showing the meta data for this blog post, modified Thursday 12 December 2024
