Just curious, who sees this tweet (also what is the individual unit of a BlueSky, is it this Blue?) do I read your Blues? Or is it our acronymized BS? Help, I feel like I fling these down a too vast open corridor.
Repeating something many Black journos have said already, but never underestimate how much white journos+editors willingness to play nice w/ varied iterations of “anti-wokeism” was b/c they got really uncomfortable from 2012 to 2020 when called to account for racism w/in their outlets/profession.
Doesn’t every scholar employed at a research university have “diversity statements,” from pre 2025? So if your grant no longer has a federal DEI requirement, pull out the diversity statement, and incorporate those principles where you can. Keep records of those efforts in your personal diary
NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
I don’t know what to do with our preoccupation with the stasis of being injured. When we study the people who successfully mobilized in the past, they did not dwell upon their injury. They sublimated and the downward repressive force became fuel. But we know that’s unhealthy 🤷🏾♂️
What now?
1. Join Signal
2. See which of your lefty contacts are on there. We are already organizing and could use your help. The groups are on the apps.
3. Look for the folks who were leaders in resource distribution during COVID. They are either still doing the work or know the folks who are.
Disturbing fact: whatever inequities represented by the ratio of white:black authorship of books in African American history are thrown into starker relief by the ratio of white:black authors of narrative-documentarian podcasts on African American history.
How do you say to a student who says, “I think you don’t like me,” that they are both too important and nowhere near important enough for me to “dislike.”
Where can a person find writers meditating on the role of media in generating our fantasies of iadulting/human development as empowerment. For example, dreams of “our first job,” “our first kiss,” our first car,” etc. huge question, I know, so any and anything would be helpful.
This article is terrifying:
"As wealthier countries bomb poorer ones, devastating essential infrastructure, they have created the tragic social conditions that foster antibiotic resistance. The public-health fallout knows no borders and can carry on indefinitely, even after the bombs stop."
If I think you’re cute and you accepted my Facebook friend request, we’ve gone on a first date in my head.
I don’t know how to do this? I feel enough “not writing enough” guilt on Facebook and Twitter, now a triple dose on BlueSky? Ugh yall don’t want to be great.
Death to the faculty reading group that is not “works in progress.” We made it this far, we all know how to read a text. We don’t neee to impress each other with that skill. What we need is to help each others publication agenda through feedback and support. Period.
Can’t wait to start reposting here the jokes I told 9 months ago on Facebook.
No shade, but when are y’all gonna start the Starter Pack for “Thoughts and Notions”
I understand food preferences and that’s fine.
“Slave food” discourse is antiBlack. Cuz what the fuck were they supposed to eat? Wasn’t no goddamn menu! Not all enslaved folk were allowed to cultivate their own food, either.
Imagine blaming human trafficking victims for any aspect of their ordeal.
Ok science, tech studies folks. AI research and content platform research and cybernetics research and cloud/broadband research are all different and sort of unrelated. How do people find each other within the subsets of this discipline? 😭
Some of us have only taken Grindr/Jak’d related selfies of late 😬
Election based stress-eating, but it’s only ramen and popsicles. My stress is in its second trimester, apparently.
OMG this is weirdly right on time for me. Won’t he do it.
Everyone should read Bernice Johnson Reagon's 1981 speech, "Coalition Politics: Turning the Century" from Barbara Smith's Black feminist anthology Home Girls.
It's on the difference between what we get from a home vs what to expect from a coalition & it's full of 🔥
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Rule #1
My name is Ashley C. Ford and I wrote Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir. It’s about growing up as the eldest daughter of a single mother in small-city Indiana, and what happens to the left behind and forgotten families, especially the children, of incarcerated fathers.
In this club as well
Hey! If you’re a black woo woo #onhere or just are interested in altars, ancestors, hoodoo, orisha and the like, I wrote a book and people seem to like it! #blackbooksky
Out now -- "What Kind of Place is Freedom?" by Danielle Purifoy (UNC Chapel Hill)
-- our fifth #OpenAccess essay on pro-Palestinian and anti-war protest on campus antipodeonline.org/2024/10/24/w...
