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Part of my teaching is answering questions that I’m unsure about simply with “I don’t know,” and showing students the limits to my own thinking. In a moment where politicians and social media claim to have absolute truths, my students deserve to people embrace their uncertainty and limits.

I knew then it was less about what you owned & more about if people with power saw you as worthy that determined so much of our lives.

In grad school I used free medical clinics in the city, when the doctor found out I was getting a PhD he said that I was not like the other people there & that a medical emergency could destroy the future I was building, as if all poor people don’t have futures.

Trusting ChatGPT about black issues over Black women makes sense because anti-blackness today is less about denying that black people are human, but that data becomes illegible when black bodies perform human qualities such as thinking/feeling. Humanity itself becomes tainted by blackness.

We are thrilled to announce a new PhD program in Sociology at Tulane University to be launched in 2026. The program stands out for its interdisciplinary linkages, a focus on both academic and non-academic careers. Admitted students are provided five years of funding.

One of the best pieces of writing advice I got recently was, “of course you are going to write a smart book, but what else is it going to be.”

A lot of academia is just folks trying to perform being smart like long irrelevant questions after talks, unnecessarily critical reviews, & sounding like a journal article in social settings when folks just chilling. There are different ways of being interesting in these settings.

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The Newcomb Department of Music in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University is seeking an assistant professor of music (tenure-track) with expertise in the history and practice of Black American music.

I can’t let my students get finessed out of their own education. I let them know that when learning feels like a chore it’s not by accident. That feeling is inevitable in a society that undermines critical thinking & rewards complacency. I ask them who benefits from that?

Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.

This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.

there is no training to prepare you to deal with the passing of one of your students. so much of our engagement with them is about their future that we take for granted, particularly for Black students, how much is denying them of one

When I was young, people adultified me to assign me all tesponsibiiity.

Now that I am old, people talk to me like I’m a child, granting me no autonomy.

I do believe the colonial brain will make whatever true that it needs to be true, I swear.

Headlights: Voices from The Progressive South: Ep. 15: Texas and the Gerrymandered South SYNOPSIS: All eyes were on Texas last week as Republican legislators moved toward drawing new congressional districts, effectively trying to steal five seats from Democratic incumbents. It’s part of P...

They're messin' with Texas! How gerrymandering shapes Southern politics.

Plus, a great conversation with Tulane professor @coreyjmiles.bsky.social, who guest-edited this summer's hip-hop themed issue of the journal Southern Cultures.

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Too many of us have replaced building power with telling our story and being “heard.”

"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all." James Baldwin 🌸🌸

No explosions To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life

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by Naomi Shihab Nye

"Every bombed village is my hometown."

— James Baldwin

Great new issue of Southern Cultures with a bunch of smart writing and thinking about Southern hip-hop!

the folks at southern cultures be doing their thing!

Hip-Hop Playlist Guest editing a special issue on the Hip-Hop South required falling in love with the sound of my home in a new way. When Regina Bradley asked me to come on to the project, I know now that when I said…

Checkout the Hip-Hop South playlist: www.southerncultures.org/article/hip-...

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@scquarterly.bsky.social summer issue on the Hip-Hop South. Talm bout some of the leading voices on southern Hip-Hop celebrating 30 years since Dre declared “the South got something to say." Available to read FREE on Project Muse

Man. I just got an email saying that Gaza is biggest spiritual crisis for Jews since the Holocaust and like ... the problem in Gaza isn't a Jewish spiritual crisis you guys, it's a fucking colonial genocide.

I know this feels right (and flattering). But that man doesn’t hate smart people. He hates people who won’t do what he wants. Smart people comply all the time.

i hate having random conversation with white folks in Ubers & other spaces I can't easily get out. they are going to ask me what i do and when i say professor, we are two questions away from stuff getting uncomfortable

mine ain’t scared 😂

I definitely think AI can copy creativity well. I also believe Western philosophical conceptions of objectivity can undermine rigor in that it imagines research that isn’t messy & contradictory, missing that ppl live subjective, emotive lives that cant be reduced to statistical representation

when our mother died my sister faced so many challenges like “how do you fill out FASFA without having an active parent.” She got a full ride to Chapel Hill & is graduating this weekend. Thank you for trusting me to be your brother. Thank you for loving me even when I didn’t always get it right.