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Black Data and Chicken Pumpkin Soup
Seminar and Cooking Show with Shaka McGlotten︎︎︎
[Seminar: Four people connect virtually on a Zoom grid that is outlined by a magenta line. They are engaged in a group conversation about the essay “Black Data.” On the top left of the grid is seminar leader Shaka McGlotten, a Black queer non-binary professor wearing a black cap, short-sleeved black button down with a wide lapel, and a lavender mask. On the top right is Amber Hawk Swanson, a femme white woman with long dark hair and bangs wearing a navy blue dress with a green sweater tied around her shoulders and a matching green mask. On the bottom left is Sidore Kuroneko, a Japanese-British Synthetik with long lavender hair and long bangs who wears a black and white tartan dress with a black belt, a black velveteen choker, red lipstick, and vintage Pan Am corded headphones. And on the bottom right is Davecat, a Black man with dark hair slicked over the right side of his forehead who wears a white button down, a black and grey tartan necktie, and silver corded headphones. Shaka and Amber appear in different quadrants of the Zoom grid but both sit against a soft pastel grid background in front of a live studio audience that is not pictured. Sidore sits in front of a black bookcase holding books and collectables. Davecat looks on with piqued interest. His finger rests on his lip, exposing his many bracelets and polished black nails. He sits on a loveseat covered with a plaid blanket and his bookshelf and desk are viewable in the background.]
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the episode on Vimeo[Cooking Show: Four people connect virtually on a Zoom grid comprised of three rectangles that is outlined by a magenta line. They are filming a cooking show episode of The Harmony Show entitled Black Data and Chicken Pumpkin Soup. On the top left of the grid
are Shaka McGlotten, a Black queer non-binary professor wearing a black cap, lavender mask, black t-shirt, and pink apron and Amber Hawk Swanson, a femme white woman with long dark hair and bangs wearing a periwinkle dress and a lavender mask that matches Shaka’s. They stand next to each other in front of a stainless steel table with pots, bowls, and other cooking-related tools. On the top right of the grid is Sidore Kuroneko, a Japanese-British Synthetik. Sidore has light skin and short purple hair which partially covers the left side of her face. She wears a black blouse with fuschia skulls, a velveteen corset, red lipstick, silver-framed glasses, and vintage Pan Am corded headphones. She sits in front of a black bookcase holding books and collectables. In the bottom rectangle is Davecat, a Black man with dark hair slicked over the right side of his forehead wearing a grey button down shirt with a purple patterned tie. He wears silver and black corded headphones and sits on a loveseat covered with a plaid blanket. His bookshelf and desk are viewable in the background, as is part of a British flag hung on the wall.]
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the episode on VimeoSEMINAR LEADER
Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies and Global Black Studies programs. An anthropologist and artist, their work stages encounters between black study, queer theory, media, and art. They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface with qtpoc lifeworlds.
They are the author of Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (SUNY, 2013). They are also the co-editor of two edited collections Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis, Palgrave, 2012) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones, McFarland, 2014). Their work has been supported by Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Photograph by Max Mauro
They are the author of Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (SUNY, 2013). They are also the co-editor of two edited collections Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis, Palgrave, 2012) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones, McFarland, 2014). Their work has been supported by Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Photograph by Max Mauro
[Shaka McGlotten, a Black queer non-binary professor wearing a soft grey cardigan over a darker grey cotton t-shirt—their shoulders and chest pointing the right of the frame—faces the camera smizing in sharp focus in front of a group of trees in soft focus.Their head is shaved and their facial hair trimmed, Shaka smiles slightly.]
ASSIGNMENT
Reading
- Mcglotten, Shaka. “Black Data.” In No Tea, No Shade, 262–286. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2020.
RECIPE
- Heal Me Delicious. “Chicken and Pumpkin Soup.” October 31, 2020. https://healmedelicious.com/chicken-and-pumpkin-soup/
Photograph by Nicole of Heal me Delicious︎︎︎
[A glazed white bowl with an unglazed earthen edge sits atop a white marble countertop. The bowl holds a serving of delicious-looking orangey-yellowy pumpkin soup. Unchopped spinach leaves, chopped herbs, and chunks of ground chicken emerge from the base of the soup’s surface. A black soup spoon rests face-up on the edge of the bowl and dips partly into a mixture of pumpkin and broth base and herbs, poised for someone to take into their mouth. A loosely folded natural linen napkin sits under the bottom left side of the frame while a second, identical, bowl of soup peeks into the top right corner of the frame.]
[A glazed white bowl with an unglazed earthen edge sits atop a white marble countertop. The bowl holds a serving of delicious-looking orangey-yellowy pumpkin soup. Unchopped spinach leaves, chopped herbs, and chunks of ground chicken emerge from the base of the soup’s surface. A black soup spoon rests face-up on the edge of the bowl and dips partly into a mixture of pumpkin and broth base and herbs, poised for someone to take into their mouth. A loosely folded natural linen napkin sits under the bottom left side of the frame while a second, identical, bowl of soup peeks into the top right corner of the frame.]
