Listening to @repemilyrandall.bsky.social talk about the importance of a health care system like the one that supported her baby sister for 19 years. ❤️ so much for @wellesley.edu students to learn about. Heartbreaking to think that keeping people alive is expensive.

I think they said no photos but who can resist this amazing faculty panel? I am inspired by my colleagues @wellesley.edu.

Really love the inclusion of Pastor Troy Jackson from Undivided. As someone who attended a lot of MEGA churches I have often find it troubling that academics hold religious conversations at arms length. The church is critical (has always been) in this political climate. @wellesley.edu

Anna Deavere Smith: theatre is about making the current speech real. When person X says this will happen the goal is to make us believe that it is happening. Such a powerful analytical statement @wellesley.edu

Sen Clinton: what is the role of the arts in reviving democracy? Anna Deavere Smith: fashion in art unifies people, emotional connection- art has the power to bring us together. (gildead age fashion heals me 💯) very well In awe of these women. @wellesley.edu

Welcome remarks from President Paula. A. Johnson to our Finding Common Purpose summit @wellesley.edu.

What in the actual hell? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Hey @wellesley.edu - ARE you there? I hope you join us for the summit on Saturday. Here’s why I am excited 👇🏾

Earned my #otf #orangetheory hell week tshirt. I crawled to the finish line.

Is anybody here? Super excited about the week of chocolate events @wellesley.edu. I am delighted and humbled that we get to learn from the extraordinary Jeanne Donkoh of Bioko Treats who is on campus all the way from Accra, Ghana. Her chocolates are a work of art! We got a few customized bars 😊

Day 1 of hell week was 🔥🔥🔥🔥I enjoyed Day 2 because I love burpees but the rower was absolute hell #orangetheory 🔥 #HellWeek2025

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

The ‘No Kings’ protest in Washington, D.C., drew participants from across the Mid-Atlantic states to the National Mall.

I may have mentioned the #PowerandPossibility Book has a playlist? This is music that inspired me to write, kept me writing or helped the [many!] rewrites I will be sharing a few of the songs with you today & their significance. Here is the YouTube link: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I wa a feeling a little meh about the No Kings protests (mostly because of the buy pizza emails) but my goodness. My hope, faith and belief in democracy has been given another boost. Thank you to everyone who went and I did send my $20 for the pizza. We gotta feed college students.

Finally made it to 100 classes #otf #orangetheory I crawled to 100 but praying for a smoother next 100. Fingers crossed for good health.

I was the last person standing for our catch me if you can. I alternated between 3 and 4.5 for my power walk. I was so close #otf

I often meet Americans who say they are still considering leaving the country. I share our piece on why people might want to consider staying: time.com/7298847/hist...

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Most people won’t notice this but this Halloween chocolate will taste a lot less chocolatey. The price of cacao has gone up. Climate change challenges in the top producing countries, Ghana & Ivory Coast. Chocolate hoarders. There’s just not enough cacao to feed the demand.

Friend, please join me at 4pm today online or in person. I will be in conversation with Dr. Hauwa Ibrahim. I am excited and deeply honored to have time with a woman, a leader, a force I admire so much. Join us! 4pm EST (New York). Everyone is welcome.

Listening to my friend and colleague Professor Yvette Ndlovu in conversation with Shingai Kagunda on her book Drinking from Graveyard Wells. It’s a beautiful collection of short stories. If you haven’t read it please do yourself the kindness of getting a copy. Thank you Newhouse Center ❤️

Wonderful documentary on New Zealand prime minister Ms Jacinda Ardern #womanleader

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Black women, stay safe out there. Interesting that in some cases having white male colleagues is better for career trajectories for black women than having white women colleagues. In fact BW who work with WM have a higher chance for promotion. www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...

This is insane. What? Sorry this happened to you, Karen.

Also, we need a study on how black twitter thrived and continued to thrive even when that space was harmful to black bodies. I am grateful for the reprieve brought by Bluesky. I think there is much to learn from online community building from black twitter.

Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state on.ft.com/4ngcj9X

NPR is tracking the record number of lawmakers in Congress who have already announced they don't plan to run for reelection ahead of the 2026 midterms.

If my knee wasn’t acting up I think I could have managed the full #dritri. Way to go #orangetheory #otf

This is not how I would frame if. Exit is bad for democracy but talking to people like this is not how you win friends.You missed an opportunity for a nuanced and important conversation on the impact of exit. @us.theconversation.com this is what I was trying to argue. I hope you reconsider my piece.

I still think leaving X like other forms of exit did do harm to the voices of folks in marginalized regions who still depend on X to get news out. In many dev countries Facebook and twitter are cheaper +more accessible. There is a wayto curate timelines dominated with better news e.g Black twitter

As a lot of my followers will know, I was really quite poorly last week! Amazing job by everyone else involved to get this piece over the line with an increasingly feverish and unresponsive writer.

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

Update on H1Bs please READ

My baby ❤️

Death, Diversion and Departure is an Amazon Top New Release. Thank you for the pre-orders. I can’t wait for everyone to read my labor of love.

Join us for a FREE online conversation on the State of Democracy in Africa via The Brookings Institution. 10am EST- TODAY Link: www.brookings.edu/events/the-s...

Today’s #orangethoery class was hard. Barely got any splats. How many did you guys get?

From @nytimes.com , “The first season of “With Love, Meghan” also inspired some viewers, like @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, the chair of Africana Studies at @wellesley.edu College, to host their own gatherings.” We had the best time. It was the sweetest gathering. Drinks, food, laughter and joy.

I have power walked my half marathon goal and the month isn’t over yet 🫶🏾❤️🫶🏾 #otf #orangetheory

African ‘king and queen’ evicted from Scottish woodland www.thetimes.com/article/b034...

Most def feeling anxious about the Upcoming #orangetheory 2000m row challenge. A month of eating chocolate in Europe didn’t do me any favors. My modest goal is to shave 15 seconds.

Fellow junior faculty looking to publish your first book i high recommend this. dailynous.com/2015/05/28/a...

Looks like folks can pre-order copies of Death, Diversion and Departure. I can’t wait for you to read my methods section. I have never seen such an incredible weaving together of multiple methods, ethnographic, quantitative, and experiments. I worked! www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

Very exciting news. Death, Diversion and Departure now has a book page on the Cambridge website. It feels slow but it’s happening. Oh such wonderful praise for the book too :) I am open to do book talks starting in the Spring. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Check out (our) my co-author @kelliecarterjackson discussing our work on U.S. Brain Drain on MSNBC. @wellesley.edu www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

“It’s more dangerous to investigate cocoa than arms trafficking,” boasted the pilot, who requested anonymity and described it being “like cocaine in Colombia or in the Amazon”. International cocoa prices have soared above $10,000 a tonne in recent months. www.ft.com/content/e0b7...

When is a coup called a coup? In a recent Brookings publication, @drdendere.bsky.social and her co-author assess the current state of democracy in Zimbabwe and the multiple factors shaping its evolution in the last decade. Read more from Brookings: www.brookings.edu/articles/und...

Many middle class Americans & academics are considering exit. However, @kcarterjackson.bsky.social & I argue that “defending democracy is a game best played on home turf.” Read our latest in @TIME @wellesley.edu History Warns us About the Dangers of Trump's Brain Drain time.com/7298847/hist...