Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.
My oldest son got into the University of Maryland yesterday and will be transferring from Penn State in the fall. He had an amazing first year at PSU but UMD was his first choice and it's driving distance from home.
My baby is coming home, y'all 🥹
There's a lot of talk online about Black femicide that reads as half-baked and reactionary. These sources may add necessary context.
- "Of Fast-Tailed Girls and Freedom," Mikki Kendall
-"North American necropolitics and gender: On# BlackLivesMatter and Black femicide," Shatema Threadcraft
Here are a few reliable sources about Black femicide and violence. I use these works in my Black Feminism course:
- INTIMATE JUSTICE, Shatema Threadcraft
- AMERICA, GODDAM, Treva Lindsey
- ARRESTED JUSTICE, Beth Richie
I've been so tempted.
The final draft of my academic book is due on May 1st. I'm SO excited to FINALLY be wrapping this 8yr long project up.
I just submitted a fourth revision for an article I started writing in grad school 11 years ago. Academia is slow as molasses.
I'm so excited to be in conversation with my dear friend L'Oreal Thompson Payton on 4/19 at 6pm CT for the virtual launch of the Black Feminist Book Club with Zora's Place Bookstore in Evanston. REGISTER BELOW!
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a message for today!
I'm looking forward to May through December when I will be saying 'no' to all book promotion opportunities for BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US. Starting back at the top of 2027, I'll have two new books to promote.
I just walked to Trader Joe's and back and it's one of the first times I've been able to walk that distance with no nerve pain since open-heart surgery last summer.
I'm nine months post-surgery and moments like this make me so grateful to be able to walk again.
My final in-person book talk will be on Tuesday evening at Barnes and Noble in Emeryville on Bay Street (@bnemeryville). This is special to me as I am ending my book tour back home in the Bay where it all began.
I would love to see some of the hometown homies at this event.
This semester, four of my grad students defended their dissertations. One queer woman, two Black women, one Black man.
I chaired one diss and co-chaired another.
I am ASTOUNDED at the brilliance of my students. As an early career faculty member, this has been the highlight of my journey thus far
And yet, I am still here. They have tried but they have not succeeded.
"come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed."
- Lucille Clifton
Asé
As the elders say, I have a testimony. One day, I will tell y'all all the ways they have tried to kill me. But, Zora and Audre taught me not to be silent.
Zora said if I am silent, they will kill me and say I enjoyed it. Audre said it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.
I've been on the Professor Watchlist for 5 years, nearly my whole career on the tenure track. I've received 100s of death threats.
The efforts to stamp me out and to stamp out my voice have been unrelenting.
And, Black men are not a site of harbor. They rarely stand up for Black women academics.
In fact, they actively participate in the exploitation and harm against us so that they can climb the academic ladder.
We are less likely to receive tenure despite having more qualifications than our white and Asian peers. We are scrutinized more harshly and frequently pushed out of our jobs.
The numbers of Black women who have lost their academic jobs in the past year is frightening.
After how difficult the past two years have been for me, this award is so meaningful and affirming. Being a Black woman in academia is so hard, y'all. It's so damn hard.
In academia, Black women are used up, overworked, exploited, and then disposed of like dirty dish rags.
Last night, I was awarded the inaugural Scholar - Activist Award by the LGBTQ Caucus at the Western Political Science Association Annual Conference.
During my acceptance speech, I explained that, for Black women, we are rarely recognized while we are living.
Pam Bondi is another white woman who has aligned herself with patriarchal men and institutions who have a pecking order. When they come for Black women, Latinx people, immigrants, trans/queer folks, and disabled people, these women feel safe.
But, that safety is temporary, fraught, and fleeting.
Conversion therapy is not free speech it's mental abuse.
You can't yell "fire" in a theater with no fire because it causes harm. You can't tell a child they were born "wrong" because it causes harm, both instances are the same and neither one should be protected as free speech.
#LGBTQRights
Treating conversion therapy as free speech is diabolical.
Yes.
Wow. Do you know how awful a president has to be to break the postal service?
For my bookish folks in the Richmond, VA area, I am closing out my book tour for BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US and will be at Resist Booksellers this Saturday! I'd love to see you there!
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I'm SO excited to be heading to Petersburg, VA this Saturday at Resist Booksellers at 5pm PST to discuss BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US!
I will be in conversation with the indomitable Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield.
Register below:
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My FINAL book tour stop for BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US will be on Friday, April 3rd at 6:30 pm PST at Libelula Books & Co in Barrio Logan, San Diego, CA.
I am so excited to be ending the tour at home in the last place I visited when I left home for good in 2014. This will be a special one 💜
Okay, it's time to officially introduce y'all to my new baby: Pepper Precious Jackson. She's a four mon old labradoodle and a Scorpio queen. She likes frolicking in nature, chewing (everything), and sticks. She requires roughly 159 hugs each day. And sticks. All the sticks. We love her so very much.
I wrote about my nonbinary androgynous genderflux lesbian identity on SubStack.
"We are capacious enough to hold many ways of being. We are vast enough to create space for the fullness of our identities. We are big enough for more than two of anything."
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