Been sitting on this one for a minute but I just had a piece on Zora Neale Hurston drop! Check it out! “A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"Was George Floyd killed by a police officer?The official answer, according to a newly revealed set of federal government records, is no."

Honored to be in the Hip Hop South special issue! Big love to my brotha Corey J. Miles for curating something so beautiful. This piece about grandma was probably the hardest thing I've written - very grateful Southern Cultures allowed me to share her light with y’all

"With great respect and meticulous research, [Dana] Williams reveals Morrison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." -- Martha Southgate www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

#booksky #writingcommunity

“The water in us has perfect memory,” wrote Alexis Pauline Gumbs in our Floods issue last summer. Water, she writes, is both an ancestor and a mirror. On floods, both literal and metaphorical, and what to learn from rising water.

Thank you for articulating this so well, Kelly Hayes and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social ! "_You struggle with the people who are there and who are willing to lock arms._ "

I absolutely agree. We need to question AI and its impact. But some of this “crisis of humanity” stuff is overblown. Students have always cheated. Cut and paste from Wikipedia. SparkNotes. Answers on the back of the calculator. Different forms but reflect a view many have always had of education

Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon. Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

Anthros- do your future self a favor and put this book on your syllabus as soon as you can. Will fit with intro to cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, economic anthropology, ethnographic methods, care theory, kinship theory, & much more.

this week! if you're attending @appliedanthro.bsky.social's #SfAA2025 in portland, come check out my #SANA book panel on friday morning i'm thrilled to be joined by five brilliant colleagues and to learn how they read my work. hope to see you there! #SfAA #anthropology #appliedanthropology

Learn more about the artists we celebrated at the Baltimore Museum of Art for their works for Slavery in Motion with remains // an archive with a new in-depth interview on our Substack! lifexcode.substack.com/p/diving-dee...

"Thinking doesn't happen in isolation - it happens between people." See how HPRS builds community for doctoral scholars pursuing health equity: youtu.be/qLnbVwFl3FU Apps close for our FINAL cohort in just 5 days on March 11! Apply now: rwjf.org/cfp/hprs9 @rwjf.bsky.social @bsph-hpm.bsky.social

Postdoc Opportunity! The Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to be located in the Department of Africana Studies, beginning in August 2025. raceandresilience.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

Never imagined I’d write a book but I’m thrilled to be working with @nyupress.bsky.social The Spectral Defect: Clinical Afterlives of State Violence coming to shelves near you!

I’m honored to be part of For the Wild’s Earthly Reads Series and podcast. You can listen this beautiful conversation about a blackness that precedes all, an earthliness that is divine through the lens of Audre Lorde & learn more about the upcoming live events here forthewild.world/listen/earth...

This was YEARS in the making but my first solo authored publication is out. I do more than rant on social media. I also study situational trust! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over your shoulder, you'll never write. ~ Nikki Giovanni ✨️✨️

Lawd my Ravens finna do it to me again 😪

With the end of the semester approaching, and the passing of Nikki Giovanni, my students and I crafted a poem to sum up our time together. And, well, I’ve been crying for the last hour 😂 Idk, I thought I’d share…. Rest easy. Thug life (iykyk)

you know those people that ones that make you feel at home in your own skin sometimes our heroes suck and sometimes they save lives Thank you. Rest. www.publicbooks.org/nikki-giovan...

Full scholarships for Black UK-domiciled PhD students, for research in any field, at Univ of Glasgow. Deadline 31 Jan. Details at this link: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

seek out moments of stillness & silence to recharge

New piece of mine dropped in Qualitative Inquiry! “Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame.” Been experimenting with tone and prose a lot lately; hope some of it resonates. Check it out and lemme know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm excited for this Intellectual Publics @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social conversation between Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús & @dryofiggy.bsky.social on Beliso-De Jesús' "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease." Mon Dec 9 at 6:30pm ET Via Zoom. RSVP bit.ly/exciteddelir...

Writing a book is hard. Really hard.

check out my newest article ✨✨ i’m so proud of what @audretaughtme.bsky.social and I accomplished with this piece about “weathering in sport”

Kendrick! So much West Coast hip-hop history and culture in this video. I could create an entire class around it.

The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Serious question - why do some teachers/profs share grade distributions with their classes? (i.e. the # of As, Bs, etc. on a test) To me, it feels WILDLY unnecessary. Students need feedback, of course, but feedback should be related to their OWN performance, not the performance of others.

I will never stop pulling all-nighters. Some of my best, most chaotic, experimental work happens at night. 🌛

Worth reading www.anativeson.org/p/the-woke-s...

This is a pretty bad-ass op-ed by the students who pushed for the new Critical Diaspora Studies major at Hopkins, offering a vision of higher ed that puts social justice at its center. www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2024...

what if your ideas are as in love with you as you are with them? what if your creativity spends its days dreaming about you too? what if art is a co-creation between you (the vessel) & the eternal source of all things? what if this act of making is the universe experiencing itself through you?

A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside. | @propublica.org Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

What’s good, y’all! Excited to connect with everyone up here! A little about me: I study how medical and scientific ideas change over time, particularly as they are deployed across different geographic contexts. I also run a research lab on Hip Hop @hiphoprx.bsky.social

Emergency medicine physicians have played a big role in using bad science to defend deaths-in-custody. 1/2 apnews.com/article/poli...

Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote and tell me: 1) a project you’re working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) medical diagnoses that have been used to justify state violence + transatlantic pathologies 2) Rest, death, and marronage