The #SuperBowl is emblematic of all that’s wrong with America and tonight, for the second year in a row, millions watched as historically and systemically marginalized Americans showed us pieces of their beautiful, rich, and complex humanity that is so much bigger than oppression. Multitudes.

My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that. #SuperBowl

The same with Dre and Snoop’s love of California and Los Angeles as a whole in their half time show.

Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year. Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl

This is the most beautiful, elaborate, culturally significant set I’ve ever seen at the Super Bowl. Whoever designed this should be paid a million dollars. #SuperBowl #BadBunny

I love when Lady Gaga shows up at the Super Bowl to remind people she can sing 😭

We were down a teacher, so my sister has spent the year doing the impossible with an ornery group of seniors and an eager group of emergent bilinguals. Her mission is to encourage reading (in TX ) and we'd be grateful if you would consider donating a book or two. + www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Billie Joe Armstrong sounds incredible. His voice has matured, but it still sounds perfectly intact. Also, Green Day at the Super Bowl was a choice…🤣

My students know Hanif Abdurraqib. They refer to him as “our man Hanif” and “Uncle Hanif.” On Super Bowl Sunday, “IT’S JUST THAT I’M NOT REALLY INTO POLITICS” is THE poem to remind us that every single thing is political, especially when it’s uncomfortable. 28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 8

Dear Future Ones by Jacqueline Woodson is the newest poem in my teaching bag. Woodson's care and grief are a reminder that we contain multitudes and our desire for a better world includes the ground we stand on. 28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 7

Because Democrats have been voting with Republicans in bipartisan support of the fascist ICE agency going back to 2003 when George Bush started it, with increases in funding & detentions of innocent people year over year over year. That's why.

Always 🇵🇸

Read this first thing this morning and HOWLED. I’m so excited for @biblioracle.bsky.social. This is an incredible opportunity 🤣😭

We studied Harrison Bergeron during Super Bowl Week; my students discussed Trumpism, the negative rhetoric surrounding trans women in sports, and the complicity of broadcast media, and I didn’t have to say a word!! Did I do this right?!

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

The imagery in “That was her way of showing God,” by Jasmine Man’s, is at once mundane and reverential, which captures the essence of life in the body of a Black woman in America. I love this poem. My students love this poem. This book of poetry is stunning. 28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 6

And that’s all I have to say about that

And that’s all I have to say about that

I taught my ass off today and my students and I are better thinkers because of our conversations.

Nikki Giovanni’s poems are deceptively accessible; getting it is a master class in close reading. I read “Legacies” to my students the day she died. The poem’s a reminder that I live at the intersection of generational inheritance & torch-bearer. 28 poems for #BlackHistoryMonth day 5

Lacking emotional intelligence is a hindrance to yourself more than it is to anyone else. Do the work. It will pay off.

Being a teacher 🤣😩

“what the cicada said to the black boy” is an opportunity for science and English to merge. Occasionally, a group of students will read “get you some wings, son / get you some wings” and be inspired to attempt flight. Grateful to Dr. Clint Smith for this. 28 poems for Black History Month day 4

“what the cicada said to the black boy” is an opportunity for science and English to merge. Occasionally, a group of students will read “get you some wings, son / get you some wings” and be inspired to attempt flight. Grateful to Dr. Clint Smith for this. 28 poems for Black History Month day 4

Greg Abbott is so silly. The second quickest way to convince a teenager to do a thing is to make it a big deal and tell them explicitly that they can’t do that thing.

Somebody recently asked me about my “classroom management strategy” and it’s really just being a Black woman and an arsenal of facial expressions that instill fear.

This is the most privileged thing I’ve ever posted, it’s very niche, and the world is on fucking fire and I lost my favorite pencil: a Rotring 800. I haven’t been able to annotate my work for my doctoral program and so I ordered another Rotring 800 and a backup just in case 😩😭

The line “Grief ain’t no song” takes my breath away. I share Marigold when we need a lesson in concision, clarity, and ensuring every single syllable of every single word delivers. Dr. Mahogany Browne is a craftswoman and her words are a gift. 28 poems for Black History Month day 3

Day 3 of #BlackHistoryMonth Celebrating black educators making history....now @heymrsbond.com

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Day 2 of #BlackHistoryMonth Celebrating black educators making history....now @techysewell.bsky.social

Thank goodness for Walt Hunter and The Atlantic telling us all how teachers just need to ✨emphasize✨ reading to get students to read. What a relief.

My students use the word ‘visceral’ to describe Smith. Ode to Gold Teeth is complex: the narration takes up space in conflicting & seeming contradictory feelings. When I want to remind my students how absurdly & beautifully human we are, we read Danez Smith. 28 poems for Black History Month day 2

I’ve never been so caught off guard by a book. It’s good to know it still happens, that there’s still room for surprise in a world full of surprises. Shockingly, The Correspondent, a novel about a devastatingly self-unaware septuagenarian white woman, is one of the best books I’ve ever read.

I was processing a copy of this book at the library last week and saw that it had about 190 holds on it, which is about 180 more than most books that cross my desk.

I’ve just finished this book and I am…undone. I’ll have more later, but when I think of why fiction is so important and so magical, this novel is all of the reasons. My heart is both heavy and full.

Openly weeping because he got his Spidey backpack back.

Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” is the poem I reach for the most as I move through the world finding joy and breaking generational curses. I remind myself that “i made it up” when I stumble building a life I’ve never seen. 28 poems for Black History Month day 1

same, chanea. i turned into a piece of art and it’s the first thing guests and i see upon entering my home.

Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” is the poem I reach for the most as I move through the world finding joy and breaking generational curses. I remind myself that “i made it up” when I stumble building a life I’ve never seen. 28 poems for Black History Month day 1

Do people actually not know what a central role fashion has played in social movements??????

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Grammar question for linguists, not pedants: "She didn't take it, or him either." Why is it impossible for me to say "he" here when on paper it ought to be the nominative case?

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Excited for Professor Wurman's new brief, "Why the Original Meaning of the First Amendment Does Not Include Black Journalists"

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Every single journalist in this country needs to use their privilege and reach to demand Don Lemon’s release and HOLD THIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE. Every second of every day.

Today’s @poets.org Poem a Day by @dekinesoul.bsky.social is WHYYYY reading poems first thing in the morning is the move. poets.org/poem/memory-...