Henry Washington, Jr.
@DrHenryWashJr
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gospel music stan, ham hock enthusiast. scholar of race, gender, and aesthetics. assistant professor.
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My article on POSE's effort to rewrite the dominant history of AIDS is now available online in
@DukePress
's Camera Obscura. Check it out and let me know what you think!
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My mama was talking about somebody just now and said “she’ll steal the sugar out of a cake” 💀💀💀
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that ain't no Johnson Johnson I know Johnson Johnson when I smell Johnson Johnson
They in this woman comments calling her daddy Mr. kente Oil and I’m SCREAMING
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TO FREEDOM
Michelle Williams Announces Split From Chad Johnson 💔
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Is that... Louis Vuitton monogrammed Kente cloth?
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Y'all use "rest in power" a lil too indiscriminately for me. Some of these folks need to rest in peril; rest in pandemonium
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Copped that Stanford PhD!
EVERYONE INCLUDED :: Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2022 that you’re proud of.
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Omg look how beautiful this child is. Lee Edelman I’m so sorry 😪
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Dorinda said y’all need to leave Beyoncé alone!
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Someone just said on clubhouse that “the skepticism that abolition gets, the state never does”
Yes.
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I am now 25 years old, and have earned a PhD; but I sense that my parents are still disturbed by the idea of me sleeping in if they’re awake lol
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I'm so bored with the performance of Black authenticity. It seems like the sole object of so many folks' scholarship and politics
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Why are millennial pastors like this I’m SCREAMINGGHJHH
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This fall, I will join the faculty of Wesleyan University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. I am really excited about this next chapter, and really grateful to everyone in my community who helped prepare me for it. ❤️
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There are so many more important labors than convincing white people
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When did "first-gen" and "poor" become interchangeable? lol
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My program just guaranteed 6th year funding to my cohort. I am breathing easier.
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One thing about my writing: ain't gon' be no conclusion
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We haven’t yet fully grasped the vocal genius in Momma Dee
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I abandoned "imposter syndrome" as an analytic because it became so thoroughly universalized that it lost all explanatory potential.
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Twinkie is on IG singing “Center of thy Will” in anticipation of Beyoncé’s release and she sounds so good 😭
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Please don’t invite me to your introductory anti-racist reading group.
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Why is coffee the beverage everyone’s decided we should have meetings over? Why not milkshakes?
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Just successfully defended my dissertation 😭
#DrWashington
Congratulations to
@HenryWashJr
for defending his dissertation today! Henry will join Wesleyan University in the Fall as an Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Now why would she crack on the FIRST NOTE 💀💀💀
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Y’all will be tweeting “rest in power” and the person who died is Queen Elizabeth. Like be fr!
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Vegans will look you dead in your face and tell you jackfruit tastes like pork shoulder
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I be tryna warn my students: them bots don't know Hortense Spillers! 💀
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I do not care that you wore Timbs to or used AAVE in the board meeting. What did you say?
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She is very amused that her shade is doing numbers lol
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The location. The angles. The fact that he’s wearing denim, khakis, AND sneakers while fully submerged in an inflatable pool 😭😭😭
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Today begins my formal appointment as an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UC-Berkeley. It’s a bittersweet transition as my time in FGSS at Wes has been formative and rewarding, but I’m also excited to join such a vital intellectual community for black studies!
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I kinda want to write a book about my experiences trying to date in grad school. Its genre would be horror.
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I really don't wanna be part of the Jonathan Majors discourse (that happens literally every time a photo of him is posted online), but I do have to say: it's scary how many of you think desire isn't political.
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Sylvia Wynter in the Stanford photo of “Afro-American” faculty from 1994
Does her neighbor look familiar? Lol
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So you catered chitlins for your dissertation defense. Now what?
It's a particularly insidious form of representationalism that I think is so distracting
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One of the real tragedies of black intellectual life in this era is that we assume we have already fully comprehended (mastered, if you will) the character of slavery
*Taps mic
We still don’t have enough “slave” movies.
Please, count 10 of them since the 1950…
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Thrilled to share that my first peer-reviewed academic publication, “Making a Scene: Performance and Black Maternal Remembrances,” is now available online in
@womenandperf
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I passed my oral exams just now, making me A(ll) B(ut) D(issertation)!!! 🥳🎉🎊
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I just know Kara Walker was involved
The worlds largest aircraft prototype is called the Air Lander 10. The helium pumped hybrid aircraft consists of an airplane, airship and helicopter built all in one.
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Guess who submitted the first chapter of his dissertation to his committee last night 👀😊🥳
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Black feminists already said that.
Academic twitter,
Describe the major argument of your current research project in 5 words or less.
Mine is:
Professionalizing bilingual education was racist
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Tbh a dishwasher is not enough. I also need a set of dishes engineered to get in and out of the dishwasher on their own
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I’m really bout to be somebody’s professor. That’s crazy.
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I want y’all to say the quiet part out loud more: it is easy to be fabulous when you are rich lol
That was the nastiest hair flip I have seen in a while 😮💨👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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It’s really the “look at somebody and say ‘sump’minnere’” for me 😭
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Why slide into my DMs when you could slide into my CashApp?
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My least favorite genre of human is the one who reads nothing but says everything
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Karen even had Prince tickled
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I hope in the future Black Studies can spend less time proving whiteness is violent and more time engaged in principled intramural conflict. I want conversations btwn Black scholars who disagree but take each other seriously, and can work through politico-intellectual differences
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I think grad students have a right to desire a living wage regardless of their backgrounds. I think we also have a responsibility to understand that our labor conditions are not particularly exceptional.
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A tragic loss, a pandemic, and a brain tumor; but I made it. Whew.
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Kelly's face card is NUTS
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One of the things I really admire about Jazmine's artistry is the way she maintains a vulnerability in her vocal delivery that singers with her level of agility often lose
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Perhaps I'm wrong about the term's genealogy, but it used to imply (for me) an analysis of power: you did not just *feel like* an imposter, but had been positioned as such by uneven distributions of power and their attendant rituals of belonging
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Y'all be saying "with all due respect" and don't no respect be due
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Scientists should be required to take Black Studies classes and you will not change my mind.
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“43 percent of the Caucasian applicants accepted at Harvard University were either athletes, legacies, or the children of donors and faculty. Only about a quarter of those students would have been accepted to the school, the study concludes, without those admissions advantages.”
Slate: 43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty.
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How *all* of y’all got a picture with John Lewis??
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My greatest fear is that I may only become professionally successful at the expense of every other form of fulfillment
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Ugh her mind
“Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us,” -
#MarsaiMartin
explained to
@teenvogue
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Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how the heartbreaks and devastation of living through the past several years have distorted my vision. One thing I want from 2022 is the will to see possibility again.
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Grad school would be much easier if I had a work ethic.
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I hope I can finish this PhD before the apocalypse
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SPEAK HOLY GHOST
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Being awakened at the crack of dawn during the summer months to do house and farm work in the Alabama heat was the single greatest catalyst for my professional ambitions lmao
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@SebastianAvenue
he also died in a car accident where the truck hit him *on the passenger's side* driving MAYBE 10 miles an hour lmaooo
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Y'all be so close to getting it
So Biden’s $15 minimum wage comes out to $31,200 a year for a 40 hour work week. The starting salary for a beginning teacher in Texas is $33,660. So a person working a minimum wage job will be making almost the same as a teacher with a college degree. Does this make any sense? 🤷♂️
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To take Bill Withers’ classic tune and record Tamela Mann squalling over it?
Kirk Franklin you will always be famous
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Whitney Houston really did what she had to do on “I Have Nothing.”
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I still cannot believe Viola Davis trolled Michelle Obama that bad and got away with it
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Wesleyan University Ends Legacy Admissions
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where do y'all be finding folks who are in love with you?
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That we reward those who perform blackness and pathologize the blackness in actual black people will never make sense to me
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