College football is defined by “corporeal concern,” explains @traciecanada.bsky.social on @endofsportpod.bsky.social.

After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore “There’s no downcast eyes. There’s no one looking away...There is not a single figure that we encounter in her work that carries a gaze of ‘I don’t belong.’” wapo.st/4i0ukaB

Join Profs. @traciecanada.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social and me Wed. 10/29 at 3:30 Eastern, for a webinar on promoting our scholarship for a wider impact. Free for @americananthro.bsky.social members, small fee for non-members. Click link to register. #anthropology #publicanthropology #writing

Will you be at the Boston Book Festival today? Come see me at 2pm! I’ll be on a great panel about sports, rivalry, and culture. More details here: sched.co/27cJa #BBF2025

I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things. One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well. Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.

It’s always gratifying to learn that someone else was able to internalize less BS because they encountered my discussion of know-your-place aggression. (And many thanks to friends who made sure I saw this!) www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...

It’s been a busy and fun semester, traveling around to talk about “Tackling the Everyday” (@ucpress.bsky.social), and I’m not done yet 🤓🤓

“Everybody is so caught up in their own research, nobody has the time, even if they agree something doesn’t sound right, to devote to trying to debunk it,” said Smoliga, who now works in Tufts University’s physical therapy program, in an interview. “I did.” Bravo & thank you @jsmoliga.bsky.social

October book club registration is open!

We're hiring a postdoc in Duke GSF!! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

Thanks so much to @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social at the @endofsportpod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about my book. This is a wide-ranging conversation that really gets at my main arguments, so I appreciate the time and space. Give us a listen!

Happening today!

Check out my interview with @blackagendareport.bsky.social, where I got to describe my @ucpress.bsky.social book, connect it to what’s currently happening in college sports, and pitch the idea of un-learning the “football team as family” and “student-athlete” narratives

Happening today! Atlanta: come out and see us at 6:30pm

And the traveling begins! Today I join History & Sociology at GA Tech to kick off their fall 25 Speaker Series. Looking forward to talking to grad students, learning about their Sports, Society, and Tech Program, and discussing my book. Thanks to their organizing committee for the generous invite!

NC friends, I have a local event soon! If you’d like to learn more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book and get a copy signed, join me on Tuesday, Sept 16 at 6pm at Golden Fig Books in CARRBORO I’ll be in convo with author and documentary producer Javier Wallace Link below. Come see us!!

A new semester means new events! Looking forward to joining @profsuddler.bsky.social in Atlanta in a couple weeks to talk about my book. Thanks to @acappellabooks.bsky.social and the Auburn Avenue Research Library for sponsoring! If you’re in town, I’d love to see you on September 9 at 6:30pm 📚📖

At 25, most NFL players are entering retirement. How do they navigate life post-football? On @friendslikeus.bsky.social talk with @traciecanada.bsky.social on the 'The Harsh Reality of NFL Careers.' Make sure to buy: #TacklingTheEveryday Listen And Learn: sites.libsyn.com/54294/amplif... #NFL

"Without moms, the whole thing would go away." - @traciecanada.bsky.social , author of "Tackling The Everyday", joins basketball mom Ashima Franklin who shares her experiences raising a sports star. #MamaBear #TacklingTheEveryday

What a fun interview! Check me out on @friendslikeus.bsky.social, chatting with two hilarious comedians about Black football players and their moms

Here’s testimony from a walk-on power four college football player that his coach doesn’t know his name or number and the team has the the wrong birthday listed for him such that they wish him happy bday non the wrong day. Pretty fucked up! [From @traciecanada.bsky.social’s Tackling the Everyday.]

The best possible response to my work. Thanks to Yussuf Khan and First and Pen for taking the time to chat and review my book! firstandpen.com/tackling-the...

“During a meeting on May 22, the trustees approved 18 new tenure cases, promotions, and appts. But the list only included faculty from the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy, and Nursing.” www.theassemblync.com/education/higher-education/unc-chapel-hill-delayed-tenure-votes-this-spring/

Do you love and teach the public-facing work of SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org? Do you love unionized workers? The SAPIENS staff are asking us to send a letter of support NOW, as they face a risk of imminent closure. Please support and share! #Anthropology #Anthrosky

“The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice. To signal that certain boundary lines have been crossed. To insist that advisory roles must expand knowledge and be more than appendages to predetermined decisions.” time.com/7285045/resi...

"[I] will not be travelling to the United States right now because it feels very dangerous to do so.” Academic organizations are changing their conference plans to deal with the threat of the US border. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7531255

This Mother’s Day, I’m honored to write for Essence about the ways that Black football moms are essential to the sport, but often overlooked for their contributions Link below! Happy Mother’s Day to all the football moms and to those who inspire and care for me daily 🌷🌷

My new book, “Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary” publishes today from @princetonupress.bsky.social My goal in writing this book is to facilitate a better conversation. A short thread…

My book is on sale! You can pre-order Beautiful Mystery with this code -- E25RTHFD -- and get 30% off. All royalties go to cover the cost of publishing emerging authors. And pre-orders increase the chances of getting an audio version. Thanks for helping! www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-my...

Meanwhile at Notre Dame: “There are 56 fewer Black students in the Class of 2028 compared to the Class of 2027, a roughly 44% decrease, the largest decrease of any group.” www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research." The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Whew this is heartbreaking Since it’s kinda written from his kids’ perspective, it reminds me of Jacqueline Woodson’s ‘Before the Ever After’

Register now (free) for our 2nd Annual Sports & Activism online symposium in partnership with Vanderbilt's James Lawson Institute. A great lineup of speakers already confirmed & more to come. May 15, 12-3 pm Central. More info & register: bit.ly/4jMz0QQ

Thanks so much to @leverfever.bsky.social for this review of ‘Tackling the Everyday’ and to @mattbrown.bsky.social for the space to write it!

“If we are to be a university of the future, we must commit ourselves to bringing the best and the brightest to our campus — from wherever they hail — and we must acknowledge the sad reality that markers of difference still so heavily shape who gets to enjoy the privileges of this place.”

“Black resistance has always existed. This museum allows us to see it. It also reminds us that resistance is possible in our own time.”

I brought the nice weather with me to New Haven to talk about my book ☀️☀️ I really enjoyed being in community with other anthros about my work. Ashley of the @leithlab.bsky.social was a great host and thanks to her diligent organizing, I had a wonderful visit!

[email protected]'s writing and thinking always leave me wanting more and this interview about love is no different His new kids book about "the complicated nonverbal ways we all love each other, but particularly the complicated nonverbal ways that Black boys love each other" is stunning

they’re back! (kinda)

Thanks to my agent, aka my mom, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social knows my name and has my book 😍😍 Check mom out, casually chatting her up This also means that I’m now on Instagram, so help me catch up on 15 years of social media and connect with me there 🙃 www.instagram.com/reel/DIZ1h5G...

on the road again, this time to new haven looking forward to joining folks in yale’s department of anthropology tomorrow for a conversation about my book excited to learn what grad students in my own discipline picked up on!

Catch our compelling interview with Dr. Tracie Canada about her book “Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football” (University of California Press, 2025) @traciecanada.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“This is the challenging position that female athletes find themselves in-damned if they do, damned if they don’t. The question then becomes whether the programs around these women are prepared to keep them safe in this new era of hypervisible women’s sports. So far, the answer seems to be no.”

the book launch event I’ve been planning for months is almost here! Hanif Abdurraqib will join me on campus for a book convo and Adriane Lentz-Smith will serve as our fab host. I can’t wait! if you’re near Durham, I would love for you to join us. learn more and sign up for updates here:

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.

“The number of Black men attending four-year colleges has plummeted across the board. And nowhere is this deficit more pronounced than at historically Black colleges and universities… Black men account for 26 percent of the students at H.B.C.U.s, down from an already low 38 percent in 1976”

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