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Grammy-nominated singer Susana Baca hospitalised in Lima

Award-winning Afro-Peruvian singer and former culture minister Susana Baca has been admitted to intensive care in a hospital in Lima, her family said Friday.

Baca, a three-time Latin Grammy Award winner, is 79 years old.

"Susanita is very delicate, she is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital, where the medical team is doing its best for her recovery," Baca's husband Ricardo Pereira said in a statement, without specifying the nature of her ailment.

Baca, an icon in her country and popular in the United States and Europe, was discovered and signed to the Luaka Bop label three decades ago by David Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads.

She won the Latin Grammy for best folk album in 2002 with "Lamento Negro" and again in 2020 with "A Capella." In 2011, she received another Latin Grammy for Record of the Year for "Latinoamerica," her collaboration with Puerto Rican group Calle 13.

In an interview with AFP, Baca once compared her role in bringing Afro-Peruvian music to the international stage to the contributions of icons such as Cape Verdean Cesaria Evora and South African Miriam Makeba.

Her latest album, "Epifanias," was nominated in the best global music album category for the Grammy Awards handed out in Los Angeles this month.

In 2011, she became the first Afro-Peruvian to hold a ministerial post, but left the culture portfolio within months to resume touring.

Source: msn.com/en-in/health/other/grammy-nominated-singer-susana-baca-hospitalised-in-lima/ar-BB1ipGDZ

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded over one hundred records. She was born in Atlanta but grew up in Pittsburgh. She was one of eleven children and taught herself to play piano, performing her first recital at age ten. She became a professional musician at the age of fifteen when she played with Duke Ellington and the Washingtonians. She joined a band led by saxophonist John Williams and married him in 1927.

They moved to Oklahoma City, where in 1929 John joined Andy Kirk’s band, Twelve Clouds of Joy. She worked for a year as a solo pianist and a music arranger. She took the name “Mary Lou” and was recording jazz albums.

She left Twelve Clouds of Joy after divorcing her husband. She moved back to Pittsburgh, where she started a band with Harold “Shorty” Baker and Art Blakey. She left the group to join Duke Ellington’s orchestra in New York where she became the star vocalist. She moved back to New York where she started a radio show called Mary Lou Williams’s Piano Workshop.

She took her talents overseas and performed mostly in England. She retired from music and focused on her newly embraced Catholic faith. She created the Bel Canto Foundation, an effort to help addicted musicians return to performing. She returned to the music business in time to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival. She started her record label and founded the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival.

She focused on religious jazz with recordings like Black Christ of the Andes which was a tribute to the Afro-Peruvian priest St. Martin de Porres. She wrote Music for Peace. She never abandoned secular music as in 1965 when she performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. She recorded new albums and became an artist-in-residence at Duke University, teaching the History of Jazz among other courses. She directed the Duke Jazz Ensemble. She performed at the White House for President Jimmy Carter and guests. She participated in Benny Goodman’s 40th anniversary Carnegie Hall concert. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

🏵️Eva Ayllón🏵️𖤓☽｡⋆

yo yo yo welcome back to this blog❤️

Today's artist is Peruvian legend Eva Ayllón. She's one of the most recognizable singers of peruvian creole music (música criolla), a very interesting genre that encapsulates the rich and varied culture of the country, mixing influences from Andean music (música andina), African music and European dances (like waltz and mazurka).

Eva Ayllón's musical career starts as a solist in the 1970s; she later joined the group "Los Kipus" and reached national recognition. (P.S. some of her best recordings are listed in Los Kipus' profile if you're using Spotify!)

Here's my favourite song from one of their best album:

Also called "la Reina del Landó", Eva is regarded as the best representative of afro-peruvian music. Landó is a dance originated from Angola, in Africa, where it was used to accompany marriage cerimonies. It was brought to Perú by the Spanish slave trade in the 16th century. There's also samba landó, which is very similar, from what I gather, though some people consider it to be the same as landó.

You can also find several other afroperuvian dances in her discography, like "Inga" for example.

Here's my favourite recording of "Taita Guaranguito", a landó song:

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María Elena Moyano Delgado (November 23, 1958 - February 15, 1992) was an Afro-Peruvian community organizer and mother whose assassination by the Sendero Luminoso sparked a public outcry bringing attention to her work and the plight of economically marginalized women.

Born in Barranco District, Lima to Eugenia Delgado Cabrera, a laundress, and Hermógenes Moyano Lescano, She had six siblings. She completed two years of Sociology at Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University in Lima. Her experiences amongst community women shaped her approach to organizing and politics.

She became involved in church groups before expanding her reach into secular community organizing. She was active in the Movimiento de Jóvenes Pobladores, elected in 1986 and 1988 president of the Federación Popular de Mujeres de Villa El Salvador, and elected deputy mayor of Villa El Salvador in 1989, serving until her death. She spearheaded the organization of public kitchens, health committees, various income-generating projects, education, and the Vaso de Leche program, which provided daily milk to impoverished children.

She found herself and her people caught in the middle between two hyper-masculine and violent factions. The Sendero Luminoso, a Marxist-inspired movement, and the Peruvian state under President Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto implemented draconian neo-liberal economic reforms.

Her concern remained with Villa El Salvador women, not ideology. She considered soup kitchens a form of public grievance and saw the political in the personal. She was committed to improving the material conditions on the ground.

Her advocacy gained the support of Lima’s mayor who instituted and expanded Vaso de Leche. Fundamentalist Sendero Luminoso resented attempts to improve the conditions of the poor, they assassinated her in front of her family, dragged her body to the nearest town, and blew it up with dynamite.

Her mother accepted the Peruvian Order of Merit for Distinguished Service on her behalf. She married Gustavo Pineki (1980) and they had two sons. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

after 5 months since my birthday i finally required the appropriate batteries and plug adaptor for my gifted cassette player that came from eastern europe and I'm finally playing the Afro-Peruvian mixtape with handwritten notes that I got from my fav thrift man next to my previous apartment oh and also playing paisley park by Prince on tape and feeling the 80s aliveeeeee

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

BLACK ERASURE IN ARGENTINA

Argentina is Blacker than it likes to admit. “Mexicans descend from the Aztecs, Peruvians from the Incas, but Argentinians descend from ships from Europe,” so goes an old saying that encapsulates Argentina’s perception of itself as a nation of White Europeans that never had Blacks. Afro-Argentines formed almost half of the population of Argentina in 1778, but an evidently systematically implemented anti-Blackness policy reduced them to 30% of the population by the time the country gained independence from Spain in 1816.

Several decades of racial politics and alleged extermination campaigns followed where they were slowly yet steadily wiped out and their rich Black culture erased from the nation’s collective consciousness. Today, statistics show Afro-Argentines form a paltry 0.4% of Argentina’s total population, making it the Whitest country not just in Latin America but the Whitest country outside of Europe.

Evidently, there were no racially-oriented laws in Argentina, such as South Africa’s apartheid or the Jim Crow laws in the United States, but the country created a lot of obstacles that prevented Black people from accessing lands, the labour market and education. Over the centuries, Black and indigenous people chose to strategically increasingly mix with and pass off as White to escape marginalisation. Some of the country’s biggest stars can trace their lineage back to Black slaves. However, compared to other South American teams, the all-White, always-White roster of the soccer team must have piqued your curiosity.

This Whitening process was attempted throughout much of the Americas, in places such as Brazil, Uruguay as well as the United States, when the American Colonization Society set up Liberia as a home for freed slaves. What makes Argentina’s story unique in this context, however, is that it successfully pushed to build its image as a White country. Ex-president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento once said towards the end of the 19th century that it would be impossible to see Blacks in Argentina unless one travelled to Brazil. African Stream’s Brenda Mwai lays out the case.

I would love to learn more about the development of languages and dialects, last year I read a short story collection written in phonetic Afro-Peruvian dialect (it's called Monólogo desde las tinieblas by Arturo Gálvez Ronceros) and was intrigued with how similar it was to Caribbean Spanish dialects, with the dropped vowels and changing "r" sounds to "l". Or rather, I would like to learn not the theory but the particulars of certain cases, like in this one I imagine it would be the shared African influence given the distance between one another. I remember I also liked to find out that certain words in New World dialects were considered antiquated in the peninsula--it had to do with the time period that the language was brought, and decreasing contacts over time.

One thing I would like to do--and I think it will be hard, especially in English--is to stop calling castellano "Spanish." It always feels wrong, especially in its own language--when I learned to speak I called it castellano and when I grew older it continued to make no sense because, as I found out, there are many languages spoken in Spain, that originated in the territories of what is now Spain. It's not only inaccurate but disrespectful. Even more, when someone speaks castellano and says "español," it sounds to me like a calque of the word "Spanish" as it is used in the English language, much like saying americano when you mean estadounidense. It could be that some dialects natively use the term that way--I've heard Spaniards do it for example, and people from some Latin American countries--but to me it does not sound right. Is this too political? In reality I don't think anyone notices, but I will remember. Is this one of those antiquated words? Reading a 400-year book will have you saying, "See, they were calling it castellano," though for other words you have to break open the dictionary because usage has changed or the term is associated with topics that have nothing to do with your modern life, like artisanal fabrics and horse-rearing and outdated military practices.

*Light Yagami voice

Dammit, they got me!

the authors barely disguised aromanticism

Ngl this sounds too much of my ocs...

broke: enemies to lovers

woke: two nemeses who use romance as a weapon of choice against each other bc they are both romance hating aros

“You can’t joke about being aro/ace makes you better than others as you don’t care about romance/sex, that’s offensive to non aro/aces!”

Listen carefully, you can JOKE about it. The same way lesbians joke about being better as women as better, same way that bisexuals or pansexuals joke about being better as they have a taste of everyone. Same way trans women joke about being better as they’re now the “better” gender in dress/aesthetic.

It’s a joke, just like every other “I’m better jk” joke in the queer community.

You just don’t like it as you feel like not having sexual/romantic attraction is a bad thing. You see being aro/ace as a bad thing. That’s why you don’t like it. You don’t like the idea that someone can be happy with the fact they don’t experience romantic/sexual attraction.

In my personal opinion, I’m incredibly happy about being aro/ace and I feel like I am the BEST version of MYSELF no matter what other identity I could/“should” be.

And yes I make jokes like “ew romance” and “ew sex” and “bro just break up” and “so glad I’m aroace and don’t have to deal with that shit” BECAUSE I CAN.

Note: obviously/srs people with it aren’t great, but they’re not bad people either. You can say “being aromantic is actually the best /srs” you probably shouldn’t say “being aromantic is the best and superior to all other identities making me better then all non-aromantic people” unless you’re joking

The last one was actually a conversation my friends and I had with a homophobic person.

Aromantic Bucky Barnes presents:

An Aromantic Bucky Adventure!

Welcome to Aromantic Bucky Barnes' first event!

This event is stress free, no sign ups necessary. As long as Aromantic Bucky is the focus of your creation, all kinds of works are allowed - no minimums or maximums. You're also allowed to choose more than one prompt from each category.

This event isn’t anonymous, so please feel free to share your progress! I’d love to see your WIP Wednesdays/Seven Sentence Sundays, ect, and if you tag @aromanticbuckybarnes they'll be reblogged here.

There's a text version of the graphic under the cut, and you can find other relevant information below.

Rules and FAQ: here

AO3 Collection: AnAromanticBuckyAdventure

Creations due/posting: June 5th, 2025 (aka Aro Visibility Day).

An Aromantic Bucky Adventure

First, pick an AU/setting: 

Modern times

Fantasy AU

Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece

Cottagecore

Wakanda

Soulmate AU

40s

Comics

Omegaverse AU

Cyberpunk | Steampunk | Futuristic

Second, pick a trope: 

Aromantic joy

Green | Nature

QPRs/non-traditional relationships

Fluff | Slice of life

Found family

Lesser known identities (eg. nebularomantic)

5 + 1 things

Lovers-to-Friends

Badass Bucky

AroAllo Bucky

BONUS / Alternates: 

Kinky aro

Old man Bucky, living his best life

Platonic affection

Trans/non-binary Bucky

AroAce Bucky

Age regression

Fake dating

FWB/fuck buddies (that doesn’t end in romance)

Realisation moment | Coming out | Self acceptance

Alpine

Due/Posting: June 5th, 2025 (aka Aromantic Visibility Day) 

Writers are scary because we’ll take personal trauma and think, "Hmm… what if this happened to my fictional characters but worse?"

About me

I'm an artist/author whose mind give me stories from the most absurd origins you could've think of!

I am aroace so my stories will often have aro, ace and aroace characters. I do showcase more aromanticism within my stories as my aromanticism affects me more than my aceness and I do want to see aros be more represented and recognised within media.

I have a personal website, a strawpage, a bluesky and an a03 account for my artistic projects. New accounts to platform my stories will be further updated.

That's all their is to know about me, enjoy!