There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu

NYC friends! Come through next Friday!

We are excited to reconvene Center alums: @hannamorris.bsky.social, @muira.bsky.social, @richardstupart.com @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social @cratebeats.bsky.social @azsaneet.bsky.social @sristovska.bsky.social @rouxpz.bsky.social & more! We hope you can join us! Register here: bit.ly/42NTpii

🎓 🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. graduates!! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Helped make a few more PhDs this year and yep this is one of the absolute best part Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones

#PhDone 👩🏾‍🎓

Now that I’ve defended, the way I sprinkle a lil “Dr.” or “PhD” on EVERYTHING. Email signature, bio, plane ticket, packages. If it has my name on it, there’s a prefix or suffix now

Research for Solutions brings together voices of researchers, community org partners, & members of impacted communities to discuss interventions to firearm related violence. Hosted by @sonalirajan.bsky.social; S1 produced by @azsaneet.bsky.social & @jriinaferrie.bsky.social researchforsolutions.com

Groovin’ Griot is a podcast about how we use dance to tell stories. Hosts @azsaneet.bsky.social & OreOluwa Badaki talk with researchers and dancers to help unpack the role of dance in research; In their conversations, they talk roots, rhythm, community, & more. www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...

🎉 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social who successfully defended her dissertation, “Conspi(racism): Subversive Ideas in Black American Art & Media," last Friday!

I did a thing!

I'll be speaking at an incredible symposium, Feminism and the Far Right, at Goldsmiths on June 6th! It'll be early on the east coast but worth setting your alarm for ⏰ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

🎉Congrats to Annenberg doctoral candidates Lucila Rozas Urrunaga, Farrah Rahaman, and Azsaneé Truss for receiving 2025 Sachs Program Grants, which will fund their creative projects. Learn about their projects here:

Charles Mills hive, wya!?

I’m done drafting all of my dissertation chapters & this weekend I have nothing to do because I’m waiting on feedback. I’ve been twiddling my thumbs all day — I literally do not know what to do with free time any more 🙃

Azsaneé Truss considers how #conspiracy theorizing among #Black #Americans draws on "critical (more honest) histories" that the dominant public often ignores. mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/26/a...

This is the 3rd week in a row I’m listening to The Read & it’s nothing but Target ads for the first 10 mins smh

NEW: Two Philly-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the @upenn.edu president on Tuesday after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.” One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...

what if we just *didn't* write conclusion paragraphs? what if we all just agreed to stop... amirite?

I know there are bigger things happening in the world. But today I just can’t believe i keep having to do dishes. Every day. Washing dishes. It never ends

As expected smh

“It’s meant to create chaos in higher education, and in that it’s been successful. The responses are all over the map.” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on Trump's attempts to end D.E.I. activity on campuses. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

I’m nothing if not a Mills stan. Go read my work in Media Theory!

Thinking back on how Charles Mills reframed the social contract as a racial contract, @azsaneet.bsky.social asks "what if the social construction of race is, in and of itself, a conspiracy?" #race #Black #racism #conspiracy https://buff.ly/4aSyygC

As a part of the swamp, I am personally thrilled by the events of this evening #grammys

Very helpful!

Here’s a picture of my ceiling, which I took while laying on the floor of my apartment bc finishing the draft of the intro to my diss nearly killed me. But alas, it is finished. Only 2 chapters left.

Wrapping up chapter 3/5 of my diss

This year’s holiday card 🎄

Being senior class president in high school means having a recurring dream at 30 that you’re supposed to be planning prom 🙃

Looking forward to winter break so that I actually have an extended period of time to work on my dissertation

Go(l)d - Mereba The Big Unknown - Elder Island Les Fleurs - Minnie Ripperton

youtu.be/ZdHH4-6q000?... Masterpiece by Sault Yearning for Your Love by Gap Band Green Eyes by Erykah Badu Fortune by Little Dragon

Nikki Giovanni, earlier this year, remembering Baldwin: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anx...

Responding to @moyazb.bsky.social's vision of an ethical Internet, doctoral candidate @azsaneet.bsky.social says, “Imagination is one of the most pragmatic exercises we can engage in."

Yup

Two of MIC's graduate fellows are working on research about community responses to the looming city council vote on the proposed 76 Place arena near Philadelphia's Chinatown. Here are some resources to learn more about how this project would impact local communities. 🧵

My fave museum (The Colored Girls Museum) is fundraising for #GivingTuesday in case anyone was looking for somewhere to put some coinsssss

I saw Wicked yesterday & the TikTok girlies are absolutely right — A LOT of people are gonna miss the actual point of that movie lol

Last 2 weeks of the semester! Let's do this 😭 #AcademicSky

Congrats to doctoral candidate Azsaneé Truss! 🎉

When your friends send you the poetry they’re reading ❤️

My new favorite thing on the internet is a girl running around stores dressed like Papa Smurf & I have no clue what to make of that

Won a Top Paper award in the Critical & Cultural Studies Division at #NCA2024 💃🏾 I presented a zine instead of slides if you wanna check a little bit of it out: player.flipsnack.com?hash=OUM2NUR...

Slowly but surely learning the ropes — what yall up to over here 👀 #AddToBlackSky

Abandoned the bird app a while ago but finally made it over to BlueSky 👋🏾