Stakes Is High
It has been almost 5 years since the last essay! Even though I occasionally share stuff I find interesting and related to this project, I haven’t shared my thoughts on…
Arrested Development: Appropriation, Covid-19 and What’s Next
Previously on DIYCD: Apart from accumulating, arranging and producing cultural content, time is inevitably devoted to figuring out how to maneuver in this new predicament, as it modifies institutionalized routines,…
The Black Experience x Asia as Method
I want to take a moment to appreciate and substantiate the work by a YouTube channel called The Black Experience Japan. I’ve been following it for some years now and…
Questioning Cultural Diplomacy
Swedish Cultural Diplomacy is a government run transmedia program, partly based on the ambition to internationalize Swedish culture. Judging from Kulturrådsbloggen – the cultural attachés’ blog – the cultural attaché…
Diplomacy: Mediating Estrangement
Samples have histories. Rappers have histories. Slang, flows, and dance moves and drum patterns all have histories. BARS and neighborhoods also have histories. In Hip Hop, various histories are proudly…
Gang Gang – World Wide
Let’s venture off to new areas! Here are 16 music videos from 16 different countries across the world, from various artists rapping in their own language and saying “Gang Gang”…
Covid-19 vs. DIY Cultural Diplomacy
As soon as the Covid-19 situation in China made headlines back in January, I followed it closely since I had planned to be there in March. That trip was cancelled…
The Postcolonial Translocal Mandate
The specificity of the modern political and cultural formation I want to call the black Atlantic can be defined, on one level, through this desire to transcend both the structures…
Hip Hop Intellectual Resistance
Hip Hop Intellectual Resistance by A. Shahid Stover is not the point of departure for DIY Cultural Diplomacy, but it may be its attempt. I subscribe to the general postcolonial…
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