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Looking forward to speaking at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase College) as the 2025 Fred Wilson Lecturer in Global Black Studies and also for the ‘Black Studies and the Crises of Our Times’ symposium at UB. I’m genuinely honored!

Screening online until January 26, TRICKSTERS, a program of experimental short films by filmmakers from the African continent and its diaspora!

www.monangambee.org/tricksters

Surprise, surprise.

GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025. The deadline for applications is 3/1. Happy to share program contact with interested folx

URBANIZING VOLATILITY: On Recurrent Crises and the Economic Rhythms of Latin American Urbanization Debates on global South urbanization have been an important focus of recent urban studies scholarship. Looking at the urban South from the point of view of the Latin American context, this article hi...

Coming out of the oven in IJURR, on the urban of the recurrent crisis in the Latin American context:

Saindo do forno no IJURR, sobre o urbano da crise recorrente no contexto latino-americano. Em breve sai a versão em português. Inbox para PDFs:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

More events will be announced later ✨

Poster for the Watery Yearning screening, a young Black boy’s head emerges from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean

On January 11, 2025 is Watery Yearning, title self-explanatory 🌊💙 with works by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Mo Harawe, John Akomfrah, Samba Félix N’Diaye and Julian Knxx. Preceded by a film workshop with Olukemi Lijadu!

With works by Mónica de Miranda, Karimah Ashadu and Olukemi Lijadu, followed by a Q&A with Olukemi Lijadu.

Poster for the Unsettled Grounds screening, a semi arid bush landscape with a man standing, on the backdrop a blue sky.

If you are in Lagos, Nigeria in January and into films, there are a few screenings and a film workshop coming up by Monangambee. Always a pleasure to curate with these folks 💜

January 10, 2025 is Unsettled Grounds on landscape, labor, ecology and the afterlives of colonialism

A superb list ✨

“the left doesn’t have an answer to mentally unwell people on transit” yes, we do. Universal housing, universal healthcare. We have been openly and loudly saying this, don’t lie

Labor exploitation and trafficking of undocumented migrants in the Champagne vineyards — keeping up with a very French tradition.

Kokomo City (2023) D. Smith

Can I be added? Thank you!

Mayotte : Kawéni, le plus grand bidonville de France, rayé de la carte Sur les 20 000 habitants estimés de ce quartier en périphérie de Mamoudzou, seuls 5 000 auraient rejoint des abris avant le passage du cyclone Chido, samedi, qui a balayé les habitats informels.

Mayotte : Kawéni, le plus grand bidonville de France, rayé de la carte

Deadline - 12/16. Please apply, please encourage friends/colleagues/students to apply. BFTSI has been- for me, at least- a magical place of theoretical exploration and intellectual friendship.

Truly gorgeous night scenes as always with Kapadia 🖤

Two nurses in a deserted train at night, coming back from work.

All We Imagine as Light (2024) Payal Kapadia

J. T. Roane. Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place. How were the placemaking practices of rural Black southerners who migrated north post-slavery central to the rise of both dominant urbanism and the Black P

Very grateful to Justin Hosbey for this generous and close engagement with Dark Agoras.

academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

An extremely dark photographic image in which individual elements are difficult to make out, but presents silhouetted trees against a lighter background, perhaps including a body of water

Dawoud Bey, Untitled (At Lake Erie), from the "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" series, which presents images of underground railroad sites in Ohio through which enslaved people traveled on their way to freedom in Canada

Can’t wait to listen!

Was thankful to have the opportunity to think through my Black Studies genealogy on The Black Studies Podcast!

You can listen here:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...

I’d love to be added!

Liberals and fake ass radicals trust science until it’s the thousands of medical research/journal publications outlining the impacts of repeat COVID infections, the limitations of vaccines, and the effectiveness of masking.

Sometime in late-spring early summer 2025, I'm looking to hire a Black creative to make some big renovations on my website drlaurian.com. Please drop some names #Blacksky #academicsky

Screenshot from THE website - Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings 2024: results announced South Africa continues to lead but Ghana and Kenya show strength

Decisions have been made by @timeshighered.bsky.social to still use 'sub-saharan' despite a huge body of work by academics showing that this is very much a racialised/racist label. One day we will all see that *all* the lists they create, work to maintain white supremacism.

I’m in this forum on queer nightlife repping performance studies 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾