I really scored with these Orange Tiger Lillies.

This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.

Autumn is, without question, my favorite season.

tuition-paying students what they can and cannot study.

Call to action:

Amplify your discontent on social media and tag @UTAustin and @UTAustinCOLA

Write to: College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu 4/

subjects and silencing departments that tell a more complete story about the history of Western civilization and contemporary US society. As a world-class public institution, UT must preserve intellectual diversity and educational liberty. The government should not tell adult, 3/

This decision by UT’s administration is not driven by any educational reasons; after all, the departments facing elimination are full of field-defining, award-winning faculty. UT administrators are falling in lockstep with a nationwide political attack on the freedom to learn by censoring 2/

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

One week before the semester begins I relapse into late night writing.

Send help.

It’s been a while since I’ve checked in. Enjoy these spray roses from Joe the Trader.

Carry on…

K.J. Rawson stands in front of a projector screen. It reads "Our Work Ahead: Educate, Show up" alongside photos from the Digital Transgender Archive.

In his #FemRhet2025 keynote, K.J. Rawson charges us to take on the work of educating others about efforts to dehumanize, erase trans people, the continue showing up for the people most affected, enacting trans care.

Spring shots

#minievo

Creative Nonfiction in Conversation: Roxane Gay and Saeed Jones YouTube video by HMS: Global Health and Social Medicine

My mentor and dear friend @roxanegay.bsky.social recently joined me here at Harvard Medical School for an incredible event. We both read new work and then had a wide-ranging discussion about the creative life, politics and culture.

I’m delighted to be able to share the video now:

Hmmm…

Thank you.

I found this pic in a Virginia Beach FB group, but I don’t know who to credit for this image of Poseidon - an oceanfront attraction - during this past week’s snow. I just like it.

That is all.

Around these parts.

. @proftlcarey.bsky.social critiques individual wellness narratives…for Black women emphasizing the need for collective empowerment to confront systemic oppression…how mainstream healing discourses often depoliticize BW’s struggles, focusing on personal transformation rather than societal change

Thanks for sharing!

Week 15
Because January felt just that long.

#minievo

A haiku.

"Still?"

Snowed some weeks ago.
When I'm outside, it's still here.
Now, I tire of it.

#minievo

I call this one “Office Hours.”

But seriously, I’m holding my first set of office hours. A first: I’m teaching an undergraduate & grad version of Black women’s rhetoric this semester. I have some sharp thinkers. We'll begin Parable of the Sower next week.

Happy Spring 2025.

#minievohybrid

#minievo

Yeah. It’s time to bring back the memoir course.

We were being ABUSED on Twitter. So glad to finally have some peace. Anyone else making that move?! 😭 #twitter #bluesky TikTok video by Mel Mitchell

I mean…

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

I’m sorry I missed you. Hopefully I’ll see you at C’s.

Black Girls and How We Fail Them | Aria S. Halliday | University of North Carolina Press From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don’t matter and their gir...

@drariahalliday.bsky.social’s BLACK GIRLS AND HOW WE FAIL THEM is an important indictment of how society mistreats Black girls and a call to do better. And advance praise for the book is in! 📚 👀

uncpress.org/book/9781469... @uncpress.bsky.social

Thank you friend!

#TeamRhetoric