[032720] 🏀🎧😷 what u need for quarantine life
we can do this
as we do: here’s your letter of diverse work curated by a diverse team for a diverse readership during this wild era known as #quarantinelife. in this mix you’ll see work from writers you know (and some you don’t). all kinds of stuff from creators of color. from women writers. and LGBQTI creators. basically storytelling curated with the idea that the many segments of our multiverse are equally interesting and important.
always:
scroll down for non COVID-19 stuff to escape with. how to act if you, or a loved one has the coronavirus. please fill out the census ASAP. and please register to vote, right now. not sure if you’re registered? go here, this very second ✌🏾
COVID19.CULTURE:
people are creating, providing, scratching and surviving during quarantine
quarantine: a guide to sampling every film/tv streaming service for free. because everybody’s streaming. everyone. TIDAL is live-streaming R&B and hip hop concerts for free this weekend
basketball: Ice Cube’s Big3 hoops league partners with producers of Big Brother for a quarantined reality-show hoops tournament [Chris Haynes]
[via @terisasiagatonu ⬇️]
‘this thing grinds you like a mortar’: what i learned when my husband got sick with coronavirus [Jessica Lustig]
a word: Latino and Spanish-language media fill information gap during the COVID-19 crisis [Teresa Puente]
maternity: some hospitals are “trying to get patients] delivered before this pandemic gets worse, as long as they are past 39 weeks” [Eileen Guo]
immigration: “one of my biggest fears is, where do I go if I get sick? Who is there to call, as an undocumented immigrant? what if the hospitals are overflowing?” [anonymous, as told to Chris Crowley]
[doing unto others] how you can support in-home care workers, nannies, and house cleaners during this crisis [national domestic workers alliance]
missed manis: what to do with your nails— and how to help nail techs hit hard by quarantine [Darian Harvin]
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recent reads + looks + listens
do music videos still matter? [Yoh Phillips]
learning to swim (at age 28) taught me more than I bargained for [Jazmine Hughes]
how Miami’s own Trina taught a generation of women to be the ‘baddest’ [C. Isaiah Smalls II]
from the NBA, Anthony Davis, and Lakers 🙃⤵️⤵️
meeting of the minds at a wig shop [Roy Germano] ⬇️
throwback reads + looks + listens
Jasmine Guy’s Whitley Gilbert is the blueprint for ‘Insecure’s’ Molly, ‘ ‘Living Single’s’ Regine and more [Danielle Cadet, 2017]
on Greg Tate, the cultural critic who makes art of criticism [Hua Hsu, 2016]
the millennial women becoming nuns [Eve Fairbanks, 2019]
how a forgotten New York record became a foundational building block for Southern rap [Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, 2018]
VIBE Vixen Kelis cover story here [Kierna Mayo, 2016] p.s. Kelis is on IG.
oh + also
Darian is moderating two conversations for the YOUNG. BLACK. BEAUTY. digital conference beauty conference. it’s free to attend!
Danyel and Elliott both contributed to the Los Angeles Times’ “35 life-affirming albums to help get you through self-quarantine” project
ps: lede quote is from Jacqueline Woodson’s award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming. buy it indie/local, here.
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[via @kendragarden]
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…after a long hiatus, we’re back: curated news and culture from the team that brought you HRDCVR. in these wild times, we are trying to do something creative and useful. when we started this newsletter, way back when, one of our earliest issues was a #Ferguson special edition. this quarantine lockdown has us feeling a familiar fear and strength and commitment to a better future.
team HRDlist
Danyel Smith || Elliott Wilson || Darian Harvin
special thanks this issue to
and many others!