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KJR Studios

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA

Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg



© Kameelah Janan Rasheed. All rights reserved.
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Published Writing

︎︎︎An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs,The Believer (October 1, 2021)
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︎︎︎Building Care into Data, Shift Space (March 24, 2021)
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︎︎︎My God Has Another Name, Triple Canopy (October 19, 2017)
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︎︎︎The Carceral State, The New Inquiry (November 12, 2014)
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︎︎︎Stakes Is High—and Black Lives Are Worthy of Elaboration, Gawker (June 07, 2014)
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︎︎︎The Waterfall that Flows, James B. Flood School (1994)
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Newsletter

30.
[18 February 2024]: "Primitive Hypertext" — "poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge"; x-files; interspecies learning; plants see with entire bodies; love is everywhere 

29.
[11 February 2024]: "Primitive Hypertext" — severance; reanimating spider corpses - "necrobotics"; penelope the platypus fakes a pregnancy; "and it's legal"; techno in palestine
28.
[30 January 2024]: KJR Studios is Live

27.
[14 January 2024]
"Primitive Hypertext" — scarf pin-related hijab syndrome; books fatal to their authors; fascist yogis; grief tech + ancestor communication; hang up your hang ups
26.
[7 January 2024]
“Primitive Hypertext" — spirit writing of lucille clifton + amputated fingers; kangaroo words; african ontologies of time + comp. memory; weird altars for commodities; rockit!
25.
[17 December 2023]
"Primitive Hypertext" — samizdat or self-publishing; QR codes on tombstones; bizarre and dangerously inaccurate AI-generated products; letters from God or heaven-sent chain letters; yussef dayes
24.
[10 December 2023]
"Primitive Hypertext" — pyschopomps; when AI hallucinates; perineuronal nets and rebooting critical periods; AI and the extralinguistic sphere; ethiopian jazz
23.
[19 November 2023]
"Primitive Hypertext" — "the marvelous arithmetic of distance"; deus ex machine; quantum poetics; "quieting down and tuning in"; turiya
22.
[06 November 2023]
“Perishable Instant”— global solidarity and oppression olympics; whack-a-mole methodologies; optimization; vile forms of study; love deficit

21.
[05 November 2023]
“Primitive Hypertext” — war profiteering; ever-evolving gradient of courage; vestigiality; gloss; someday we'll all be free
20.
[29 October 2023]
“Primitive Hypertext”— "inconceivable decibels"; the uses and abuses of trauma; "god's list of liquids"; "the sea would be exhausted"; like it is

19.
[22 October 2023]
“Primitive Hypertext”— exhibition reading list; petite and lo-fi-coded playthings; deceptive cadence; unopened herculaneum scroll; winter in america 

18.
[15 October 2023]
“Primitive Hypertext”— (possibly) broken toe; weak membranes; abstracting genocide; hauntings; gummy language; touching moss; harvest time

17.
[8 October 2023]
“Primitive Hypertext” — wet books; encrusted forms; geological big data; vectors for movement; blissing out

16.
[30 September 2023]
Newsletter Reorganization.

15.
[11 July 2023]
She's baaaaaaack!

14.
[24 March 2023]
Ramaḍān is heeeeerrre!  
13.
[16 March 2023]
One Work (Pt. 3) 'otherwise' video work screens at the University of Manitoba

12.
[7 March 2023]
“What if my swimming unseen sacrifices the wisdom that would waken within you if you saw?” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs

11.
[3 March 2023]
One Work (Pt. 2) 'i am not done yet' New Mousse Publication

10.
[1 March 2023]
One Work (Pt. 1) SmooOOoOoooooOooth Operator: the eternal outlays ennoble and rekindle an unlikely savior

9.
[21 February 2023]
SLIM THICC #004

8.
[6 January 2023]
An Interlude: Hello and Happy (Gregorian) New Year from Johannesburg, South Africa! 

7.
[30 November 2022]
THICC #003

6.
[30 November 2022]
SLIM THICC #003

5.
[6 November 2022]
SLIM THICC #002

4.
[3 November 2022]
Correction! 

3.
[12 October 2022]
THICC #002

2.
[20 October 2022]
SLIM THICC #001

1.
[6 September 2022]
THICC #001