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black queer feminist writer for third world liberation 🍉 🌊 🌻 🫶🏽 ✍🏽 🏊🏽♀️ 🐤♏️
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A lot of ppl pointing out that certain “decolonial scholars” are now silent on Palestine. Go to third world feminisms and the black radical tradition for your decolonial scholarship and you will not encounter silence on Palestine
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White people in Black studies classrooms: “I say this as a white, european, non- PoC white person of caucasian descent.” 🗣 we already know you’re white 👏🏾 just comment on the readings/class discussion🗣
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it finally feels real so I'm randomly here to announce I got a job. I'll be at yale next year finishing my dissertation but in 2024, I'll be an asst prof at fordham. teaching/researching/writing on african & african diaspora art, black feminism, queer of color critique etc 💛
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"Dancing in the Louvre," Faith Ringgold, 1991 / "Apeshit," Beyonce & Jay Z...
@TabloidArtHist
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black children are forced to grow up too fast. I hate that I’m 21 with the maturity of a 40 yr old. there are white people much older than me who still function as children economically. black girlhood is so short. ugh.
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idk who needs to hear this but WWII wasn’t freedom vs fascism, it was a battle of which western country would take imperialist / colonialist control of the world & wreak havoc on marginalized subjects on their own terms
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Master of Arts in African American Studies and History of Art from Y*le University 🎊 🥂
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honestly, i am worried that there would be backlash from my future students if i put alice walker, chimamanda ngozi adichie or bell hooks on future syllabi, but my training is so tethered to reading their work. are ppl puting 'problematic faves' on syllabi w. disclaimers?
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Not Yale pretending they don't know how to help international students stay here safely as if this university isn't already an expert in the art of loopholes when it comes to extracting resources from Indigenous land & New Haven's Black communities
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I’m just exhausted by essentializing broke grad student culture ™️ that doesn’t center the most vulnerable to economic precarity. Feeling awkward having to ask your rich grandparents for money again is not the same as actually being broke !
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nothing. there is no moral obligation to stare at art the entire time you're in a museum. museums are often expensive to get into, maybe they're there all day and taking a break between looking. anyway, stop shaming young folk. - xoxo an art historian & museum professional
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Y’all do know that saying “I’d never date a bi man” is homophobia, right
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it is momentous for a black feminist scholar to live until nearly 70. we have lost far too many far too young. still, I always imagined bell hooks would be 90 yrs old and still writing books, love letters, and provocations for us
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as universities divest from the humanities, let's invest in book clubs, consciousness raising circles, non-academic publishing, releasing our essays to the public for free
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I’m just now learning that Yale students have to apply to take part in extracurricular clubs and that it is very competitive. That is absolutely f*ck*ng ridiculous and needs to be banned ASAP. What an abusive mess.
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Y’all don’t understand, Brandeis Black studies is built different. There’s no academic Black feminist theory without Brandeis (hear me out: Angela Davis, Pauli Murray, Hortense Spillers, M Jacqui Alexander, Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Faith Smith, Anita Hill, Jasmine Johnson...)
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Got engaged or whateva to the they/them of my dreams 🥰✨ on the eve of our 7th anniversary!!!
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✨ my bratz dolls + ghetto fabulous + rocawear + apple bottom jeans + baby phat childhood was absolutely impeccable taste ✨ brought to you by Burlington coat factory & eBay....
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this is a very small and insignificant thing but it feels really cool that a book I wrote a foreword for is being sold at the whitney museum shop 🥲
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I don’t wanna write books I wanna write polemical 5-6 page essays
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Reform? Normalization? Abstract liberalism? Issa no from me, dawg. My people and I are choosing abolition, freedom, liberation.
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@fatfabfeminist
I’ve always thought it was bc of how fatphobia targets women. My partner wears their pants under tummy and also doesn’t know how to suck their stomach in at all (iconic) but I can suck my stomach in and always feel more comfortable with high waisted 😬
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I am quite literally exhausted from critiquing and fighting and protecting myself from racism and sexism in graduate school. This is not sustainable. Would love any affirmations bc I need them rn
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If you're amazing at grammar, all that tells me is that you're at least two of the following: white, rich, went to private school, obsessed with following rules
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I always say I'd love to teach a Black Studies class at a high school or middle school. We need a partnership between Black Studies Ph.D. programs and public schools! So many of my peers would, too!
I asked my students to name well-known "Black Intellectuals" and the first responses were all "Dr. Umar", which says less about them or Dr. Johnson, but rather, the relationship that
#BlackStudies
is has with young Black people, especially those not tethered to The Academy.
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There have only ever been 11 women on the FBI most wanted list and 3 of them went to Brandeis University
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queer ppl already exist in all the global south countries that white queer ppl tweet about if they'd be safe or not in, which almost always distracts from the point. listen to queer communities there instead of abstractly pondering your safety as a tourist
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Lois Banner is 83 and I keep thinking of all the Black feminist scholars who never got to reach such an age.
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In my bag. Passed the first half of my orals exams after studying for several months 💃🏽
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thanks everyone for the kind words! I passed. 🥳 I never thought someone like me could write a dissertation, but I really did it!!! 💜
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I hate having to do this but I need to fundraise for the out-of-pocket costs that come with my father's healthcare. He is uninsured and I desperately need him to have adequate care. Love you all. So much.
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bell hooks was truly a voracious writer. no one else could write like her. and no one else knew love like her. an unbelievable loss.
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I am really NOT an Ivy League girl. I needed a fully funded Black Studies PhD program in the northeast and that left me with ivies only. This toxic ass mess is a toxic ass mess. Pls catapult me back to state school and/or small liberal arts college culture
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I’ve never understood people who don’t want their friends to meet each other. My goal is always to make all my besties become besties with each other. And I love a girls & gays group chat! What are y’all’s ideas on the reason some folks keep their friends separate?
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the smartest college students on earth major in women’s studies & black studies. facts are facts 💯 💥
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The greatest American novelist of all time wrote love letters to Black people
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This moment we are living through in Black Feminist Thought...I am so grateful.
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Finally sending an email to my department listserv expressing my discomfort with racism (and well meaning but harmful responses to it) in the department. I am absolutely horrified but I can no longer remain quiet. 😭 I just want to learn in a safe environment.
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the way y’all talk about how certain foods (usually fast food) “will kill you” is a type of fear mongering that is deeply traumatizing to working class folks, folks w eating disorders, etc. put this energy into protecting WIC & SNAP benefits during the gov’t shutdown
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The news about Andrew Dowe is truly heartbreaking. He was possibly the greatest mentor for Black queer students that Yale has ever had. Rest in power 💔
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I’m annoyed by Anderson Cooper’s comment because 🐢 s are actually my favorite animal & I’m fat so obese turtle is a very niche interest for me. Leave fatties & turtles out of this !!!
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Black Studies is the only field of study that undoes the Human (and thus the World itself) and other disciplines that claim to do so cannot actually do so without intersecting with the Black Radical/Intellectual Tradition
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Looking forward to teaching my "Race, Migration, and Diaspora" course for MFA students at Yale School of Art next semester!
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The way we’ve been trained to never cite Wikipedia even though the info is usually updated more frequently than other encyclopedic online sources. It’s rooted in a distrust of the peoples’ knowledge — the idea that everyone making edits is just uneducated. Normalize Wikipedia!
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Being the prof means I can doordash 10 large fries to the classroom so that my students can have an afternoon snack they were craving
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i miss the political performance of stickers on laptop cases in seminars. i also miss wearing funky pants & having them matter in class. i picked the wrong personality traits for a covid-19 world.
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I’m very sad & worried about my dad rn but still sharing some positive news. gonna teach an african american art history course at fairfield u in the fall. I’ve always wanted to teach my own black art course to undergrads 😭🥰
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Low income people are wayyyyy more giving with $$$ than middle class people are.
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Thinking about girls who wanted bold, dramatic, and radiant lives but instead received tragedy after tragedy after tragedy
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It’s not “Black representation” if everyone is light skinned / mixed. Spaces where everyone looks like me are NOT inclusive of Black people
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Yay I officially passed all my orals!!! Fields were in globalization & empire, african art exhibition history, afro modernism, and black/queer/feminist studies wooooooo. So grateful for my committee:
@CecileFromont
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@TavNyongo
, Pam Lee, & Kobena Mercer
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my black lesbian feminist art history of global african dissertation has been OFFICIALLY submitted to yale as of 30 seconds ago!!! defense: april 1 😅
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My genius students mind mapping Assata Shakur's autobiography in
#BlackFeministTheory
on Zoom
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Photo of Young Yoruba Women in 1970s (Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic, Duke Univ.)
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most of us (leftists) are complicit in some ways while cultivating resistance in other ways. it's actually not useful to call each other out when in reality we are all are picking & choosing where we can/do resist. there's no clear blueprint on how to navigate this moment.
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The matriarch of our family, Auntie C, has joined my grandmother/her twin sister, in the realm of the ancestors. Nothing will ever be the same, but I’m holding onto these joyful memories for as long as I can.
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this isn't a rhetorical or loaded question. I'm actually curious. i often think about the politics of who will be on my future syllabi. has social media 'cancellation' travelled to black feminist syllabi?
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Woooo chile being a black woman in grad school fr means people will assume you’re always dumb/angry/offended/disinterested/evil/etc etc etc. Sooo many projections. I’m exhausted from going overboard trying to remedy everyone’s assumptions about me😔
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sometimes I think about how the first person to graduate college in my family is now incarcerated for several years and what that says about black life and our nonexistent access to 'upward mobility' under racial capitalism
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You ever look into the eyes of a stranger & just know someone is absolutely beautiful & has a gorgeous soul? That’s
#BreonnaTaylor
. The ancestors got you now but we will never stop fighting for you, mama
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Day 2 of Schomburg-Mellon Summer Institute (I'm a co-assistant director): Dr. Herman Bennett is speaking to us powerfully about the impossibility of a "universal African past" in our diasporic research projects
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a question I really had to ask myself: am I funny? or am I often surrounded by non-black people who associate black vernacular with humor?!?! like..........
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Huge deal! My dad’s first birthday since his strokes. Grateful we made it here. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
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if yr parents went to college and you grew up focusing on school w/o having to work a min. wage job as a literal kid, think twice before coming on this app to call everyone anti-intellectual for not reading enough theory!!!
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I might be the only PhD student at Yale working on black feminisms, fat studies, & the arts! Really hoping I get to meet
@rgay
when she's here 😆
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Happy
#LesbianVisibilityDay
to Mildred Thompson (1936-2003). Thank you for taking my research on a journey through black lesbian feminisms in Europe, queer formalisms, and global African aesthetics.
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Just need a couple white allies to donate some land or a home in Vermont and I will gladly live in a queer & feminist of color household for disillusioned former academics where we eat off the land, read theory, & write consciousness raising essays for the public
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When Saidiya Hartman writes 5 questions in a row? Get your highlighter & sticky notes out, write the page number down in your notes, do what you gotta do. You know it's gonna be iconic
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Thank you all so much, I am so grateful for the support. The initial goal of 15,000 can now cover 50 days of care. I didn’t think this was possible at all. I’ve increased the goal to 25,000 – which will get us near the three months of care we anticipates he will need.
I hate having to do this but I need to fundraise for the out-of-pocket costs that come with my father's healthcare. He is uninsured and I desperately need him to have adequate care. Love you all. So much.
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I study color theory because I am still touched by the scene in Morrison's "Beloved" in which Baby Suggs is asking to see all the colors (purple, red, etc) on her death bed
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my courses for the fall, 'visualizing black queer feminisms' and 'african and african diaspora art history' are officially on the fordham course catalog :)
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I suppose my tweets yesterday were anticipating today’s dreaded call. Back to Yale Hospital. Please send love, strength, light to my Auntie C & our family today.
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the limited worker solidarity I feel with fellow grad students who are children of profs/lawyers/docs etc… it often sounds like “raise my stipend so I can stop using my trust fund to pay rent!!” please at least recognize the power dynamics between you and others 🤪
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Thinking about my dissertation project in keywords: Black lesbian transnationalism, Yoruba cosmologies, Kongo cosmologies, Global Africa, architecture & new media, queer formalism, Black Germany, Global Contemporary, Wooden sculpture, Black feminist methodologies
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My first time being part of a press release, but most importantly, I’m so happy to be joining the Hood’s curatorial team with these fabulous people!
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Julius Thomas Sr. November 13, 1948 — November 1, 2021. All I can say: I had a granddaddy who loved me deeply and would’ve done anything for me.
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the way in which grad school has aged me 2 decades in 6 years 🫶🏽 hate that for me
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Day 3 of Schomburg-Mellon Summer Institute (as a co-asst director): Natasha Lightfoot refers to Twitter as part of a genealogy of "Black print culture"
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afropessimism, as much as I often disagree with its defenders, is the best grammar to identify the immeasurable devastation of the prison industrial complex and what it does to our souls
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professionalization is quite literally killing our collective rebellious spirit🤡
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@LegacyRussell
thank you, i appreciate this response bc it affirms what i think i'd feel compelled to do. i worry about appearing 'out of touch' but transparency & careful criticism seems like the way to go about this.
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3 hr written exam about Marx & Globalization ✔️ Studying hard for my African Art & Global Contemporary Art oral exams next week ✔️ Final Yoruba presentation ✔️ Taught kids about the Amistad rebellion for Mystic seaport museum on zoom ✔️ Writing cool stuff ✔️
#GettingThere
💯
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Within the next 10 years, I want to publish a book of black queer feminist art criticism thru a non-academic leftist press
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new bio alert in case anyone is curious why I'm always busy and never answer texts 😅
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hi class your first assignment is following me on twitter. it’s worth 15% of your grade
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The word ‘immigrant’ really cannot hold the nuance of colonizers/settlers, refugees, descendants of enslaved people, et al
Baby, y'all got to stop with these half-baked takes. Yes, we are on the lands of Indigenous folks. Still, everyone did not come here as an immigrant
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