I’m exhausted but words can’t express how beautiful today was, so I’m just sharing this pic instead 💛💙.
Coherent thoughts will come later.
But for now, Dr. Love has been hooded🎉🎉
Wait so Katt Williams is saying that Steve Harvey stole his show’s concept from Mark Curry and Hangin With Mr. Cooper.
I’m today years old when I realized the similarities.
Why is writing in academia overly complex, I legit don’t understand the words in some of these articles. Why do y’all write stuff that no one can understand? How is that effective?
about an hour ago, I successfully defended my dissertation,
“
#TheDarkestShade
: Exploring Skin Tone Labor and the Role of Colorism in The Cultural Messaging Around Black Beauty Influencers.”
Hov voice: Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is….
DR. TA’LES LYRICK LOVE 💕
.
Honestly I'm going to post more than one time about this because I DESERVE IT and I worked on this article for YEARS. But my FIRST SOLO AUTHORED publication is available in Cultural Studies. I wrote about Snowfall, Pose, and how the Black 80's are remembered on screen!!!!
I haven’t always agreed with Nicki Minaj but watching her Interview with Joe Budden has made me appreciate her so much more and particularly in terms of what she’s given to the culture. I really do put her up there with Michael Jordan as far as greatness is concerned.
I think Christine is one of the few reality stars in the last several years that actually has sent a positive message.
She decided you step out on faith, instead of continuing to live in fear and now she has the life of her dreams. Really so happy for her !
#SisterWives
I think the great thing about The Color Purple was seeing different generations of Black women viewing this film together.
I spent the day with my momma, auntie, and sister and it was so precious to me 💜🥹🥹🥹
#TheColorPurple
Two things about the
#VMAs
1) Shakira needs her own Superbowl halftime performance.
2) She needs a tour that I can purchase tickets for because she is THAT GIRL.
I think her performance last night was one of the best I've ever seen literally!
@DomLywood
@tybitscurlyP_
@Lynsha_Drek
@zeefu_apx
Would also like to add the she said “it’s tactical with Kendrick but not with Drake” as if we’re moving the goalposts. It’s tactical with both and Kendrick has the better strategy. Better strategies win wars. Idont get why that’s confusing lol
Yall condemned Halle for being pregnant at 23 and are condemning Ashanti for being pregnant at 43. Like women can’t win. And also pregnancy is such a sensitive issue for women y’all really just need to stfu and mind your business.
To Celebrate my FIRST SOLO-AUTHORED PUBLICATION, I had this beautiful pillow made by
@ScienceGrit
. We work so hard on our research & each pub deserves to shine. So, yes my new article can actually keep me cozy at night lol! 😂 Snowfall & POSE will always be special to me ❤️
Excited that my work was accepted into the Black Media Studies Conference at Tulane University 🙏🏾
I can’t wait to go to New Orleans for the first time and meet all the cool homies working on Black Media Studies !!
I kinda wanna throw tomatoes at Merri because I want her to love herself enough to leave. But I feel like they need to be bricks at this point because she don't get it!
#SisterWives
@DocDre
I don't have an answer to this lol but I generally like her and I think the critiques of her are very valid. It's the price you pay when you use liberation as aesthetics as opposed to actual principals.....
I saw a TikTok of a professor who said he was leaving his TT position to follow his real passion of research writing and teaching and I think it underscores how much of this job involves everything else except those three things 😂😂😂
Two things I was not prepared for on the tenure track: the amount of meetings, & the amount of emails requesting meetings, interviews, advice, pick my brain, service requests, etc. That university credential made me visible in a way that I just wasn’t prepared for.
Grad school made me unsure of myself in numerous ways and I’ve been consistently working to trust and believe in myself. The conference made me remember my why and that I put in the work, and I DESERVE to be where I am and go farther ❤️
Y’all today was the end of the semester, meaning I completed my Second year on the Tenure Track and actually forgot lol.
I…
- published an article
-presented at a conference
-conducted DEI Research
-facilitated several student events
& a host of other things. 🎉
Every time the war becomes a center of mainstream media coverage I always think of
@DavidCornDC
&
@Isikoff
's book Hubris: The Story of Spin, Scandal & Selling of the Iraq war. I read that book in undergrad & it completely changed my views on politics and media forever.
Excited to share my first TV appearance as a professor. I was recently interviewed on the history of African Americans in Comedy.
Thankful to God for this to return to TV! Also, Shoutout to
@loumoore12
for putting my name in the mix!
This accomplishment is everything ❤️
Andre 3000’s album forces you to be present and in the moment. It also requires patience and to process the art being consumed which we as a microwave generation are no longer fond of. I think it’s brilliant.
That buzzfeed journalist who wrote that Gabbie Hanna story better hope she got a job tomorrow lmao like sis opened a can of worms 🪱 and for what girl? Now you are embarrassed and your journalistic credibility is at stake !
Amplifying because
@ravenscimaven
is an extraordinary scientist and superb person !! If you know of any science related opportunities in the DMV please contact her ❤️
I'm not okay. The ex took everything they could from me, knowing it would put me in a poor position, while working for myself and recovering from a serious illness. Job hunting for a year now, hanging by a thread, no end in sight. I'm hoping that something works out soon... 🤞🏿
Honestly B2k Got secrets cause this was also the craziest part of J Boog's essay...like what fam?? He know where the bodies are buried, better leave him alone lol.
@_Twinndiesel
@BlackVoronwe
I can tell you mad cause you not even thinking clearly 🤣🤣 to say “Mos doesn’t stand a chance” is absurd. Just say you don’t like Mos Def, but denying his skill is not objective, it’s an emotional response.
@shaddaee
@Dr_ElleScott
I get what you saying ! I think what she’s saying is that academics purposely write to make information complicated… it’s a form of gatekeeping and hiding knowledge…. And us Black scholars who don’t want to do that are often penalized for it !
Imma be honest , this season of
#SisterWives
has been mostly filler. I waited seven weeks to learn that the episode I wanna see (Meri leaving & Robyn losing it) is Next week 😂😂😂
After forever, I just submitted a manuscript for peer-review. It's taking me YEARS to do this, but I'm so proud of myself.
Monday, I gave myself a Friday deadline that I would stop trying to be perfect and Let it Go. Hoping it goes well!
I don't think I posted here, but I completed my first full week as an Assistant Professor. And it definitely was a roller coaster lol. My classroom has these cool and colorful chairs which truthfully made a difference. Also saw a snake for like the first time on campus yesterday
I know someone that was diagnosed with cancer and upon removal of an important organ the doctor said it WAS NOT cancer. Can something be done ? Any attorneys , can you chime in?
My mom and sister came to visit me this weekend and then leaving has me feeling depressed.
Academia has totally displaced me and isolated me from my community. And I’m struggling real bad. 😔
I want to thank Venus Williams too. Venus was a trailblazer and as the older sister I identified a lot with her because I was the oldest too. Thank you for your leadership, skill, & strength. You are legendaryy and and ALL-TIME GREAT🖤👑
#blackgirlmagic
#USOpen
The fact that people are being racist and mean in Kayla Nicole comment section legit pisses me off....all over that mediocre ass man....Like please leave my sis alone with the think pieces. She literally hasn't said A WORD!!!!
@KimberlyNFoster
@SpreadFacts
It doesn’t matter what Angel says. She will be villanized regardless. Therefore, respectability politics for what?? I agree sis can say whatever she wants cause they should’ve got it right the first time!
There’s this thing I’ve noticed where you’re talking about XYZ with a white person and they go out of their way to connect it to Trump somehow. Like, Bob, chill, we were talking about mixtapes.
The Momma on Doubling Down with the Derricos is the only one that got sense. She tried to tell her son and he wasn’t listening but Like honestly that’s on that wife for agreeing to keep having them kids
#TheDerricos
Drake wore that Compton community college shirt and Kendrick gave a speech their today.
He definitely going on a summer jam screen on the 19th, Kendrick bout to make an example outta him 😂😂
And he should cuz drake shoulda shut tf up
I can't wait to disengage from this culture. Living away from family and friends for the sake of a job is not worth it. I know people will disagree but this is why ppls jobs becomes the center of their identity and they don't know who they are without it.
it’s regrettable that we live in a culture that glorifies moving and, more specifically, moving for a job as somehow virtuous or otherwise indicative of one’s character (so-called “growth”). just an utter disregard for community and the stability/sense of meaning that brings ppl.
I think it’s time to have a conversation about the legacy of Sister Wives. The irony is that they achieved their goal. I think they changed my perception on polygamy.
Polygamy isn’t their problem it’s actually Kody lol
#SisterWives
SERENA JAMEKA WILLIAMS owes us nothing, she has given us EVERYTHING ❤️ And I’m glad I got to live through it. Thank you for being an inspiration and a trailblazer! 🐐👑🖤🖤
#goat
#blackgirlmagic
#USOpen2022
This
@_misslucas
girl got on the clock 🕰 app and called her friends ugly basically. Then deleted her page, a real baddie which she is not would’ve stood in her word. STAND UP
The craziest thing about Before the 90 days this season is that they introduced us to Gino as the weird character and by the end of the season he’s literally the most normal person on here. Ben by far is the weirdest !
#90DayFiance
#90dayfiancebeforethe90days
Forever grateful to my awesome committee:
@S_DalCin
@AprylW
@DocDre
@KishonnaGray
& Vincent Hutchings ! Wouldn’t be here without y’all, thank you for believing in me and this work!
Being a first-gen PhD forces you to see the divides between being in the ivory tower and outside of it. And you constantly are trying to build the bridge between the two. So I’m constantly caught between explaining what I do in a way that ppl not in the academy understand.
In October I failed one of my prelim exams & didn’t tell anyone because I was ashamed. Today I was able to pass the exam which will allow me to advance candidacy. I know now that we should be open in sharing our failures because that’s how we help others. But I’m proud of myself!
I just blocked and deaded friendships with 4 of my "homeboys". I had back surgery literally a whole month ago and not one of those niggas checked on your boy. I ain't say shit, I just blocked and let it be what it is. Niggas wasn't my real friends
It's giving very much "I was bullied cause I'm pretty" like calling out colorism is not being resentful. & yall are basically saying shut up cause yall tired of hearing it, but you're DELUSIONAL if you think colorism is NOT playing a part in Ice Spice career lets BFFR.
Resenting light skin women for things they can’t control and only bringing attention to dark skin women to be in competition with them is also ✨misogynoir✨
@MarleyBrooker
@DJHed
actually sean said in the freestyles something about rappers getting matching tattoos and what is the picture here??? so Hed is obviously correct lol
Christine decided to love herself more than staying in a loveless marriage for the sake of looks and I think we can all learn from that ❤️
#sisterwives
I have officially received my PhD candidacy email on this beautiful
#Juneteenth
! I am the legacy of my ancestors. I am the daughter of strong God-fearing Black Women who survived in Mississippi, migrated to Chicago and worked to create a better life for themselves and me. 🙏🏾✊🏾🖤
As soon as YG said "lightskin pretty* I cringed. Cuz I knew. I just knew. Its like I felt all of Black Twitter roll they eyes at once. But it shouldn't take away from Nipsey Hussle Celebration.
#CelebrationOfNipseyHussle
I'm so glad Bobbi Althoff wasnt in that video. Thank you Dave Free, Kendrick Lamar and the editors....saved us months of discourse.....edited her right out!!!
Congratulations to
@TLoveSpeaksss
for being awarded the UMich Institute for Research on Women and Gender dissertation award for her research:
“Labor They Love, Labor They Borrow: The Struggle and Exploitation of Black Women's Work in the Digital Age”
This still stupid cause everything Jason Lee named requires communication and great talking skills. Jennifer Hudson is actually a very traditional talk show host but you so messy you don’t understand ethics and journalistic integrity! I’m speaking as a former journalist too!!!