Blackness matters in more detailed ways. —David Lionel Smith

This is real love/Lend your soul to intuitions (This is real)/Renaissance, new revolution/Pick me up even if I fall/Let love heal us all, us all/Don't make me get up out my seat/Don't make me get up out my seat (Carry). —Beyoncè

…Fugitivity is “movement—continuous, unending, necessary, and oftentimes arduous movement because being on the move is the only way we can survive” (ross, 2020, p. 10).

“Ladson-Billings describes how CRP has been reduced to trivial celebrations rather than embraced for the purpose of help[ing] scholars & practitioners learn from & not merely about [Black] students & [lacks] the consciousness raising aspect for creating societal change” -Tiffany Octavia Harris

The survival of the WNBA has mostly depended on the labor, talent, and community of Black women, much like public schools emerged in response to the skills, ingenuity, and work ethic of the Black community, particularly Black women in the South.

If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression. —Combahee River Collective

Remembering Carol D. Lee quoted my words... "trees like the willow, birch, and eucalyptus have the ability to be resilient and recover from fractures and sometimes nourish and regrow parts of themselves when severely damaged." shorturl.at/M9aZk

Light attracts darkness but it also drives it the fuck out…

“The american dream is like any other, open your eyes and it’s gone” —Earth to Eve, Threat Level Orange

Excited for my forthcoming paper👉🏾 Pivot Pedagogy: Stepping through, Around, and Beyond the Permanence of Anti-Blackness from the WNBA to the Classroom

One of my first publications has reached 3000 reads🙏🏾…feeling proud and excited that people even engage with my work! - “… transforming oppressive conditions while keeping their foot on the neck of institutions designed to oppress” doi.org/10.1080/1066...

Underground Books! shorturl.at/FrOK0

Black does not ask permission; it seeps, stretches, and stains. Black is the architecture of the uncontainable. Black moves beyond infrastructure; it seeps into the body and leaves a mark as a lived geography. —OMCA

“Much of the work of oppression is policing the imagination.” —Saidiya Hartman

Historically, Black women’s hair has been branded as a reduction in human value, right alongside our skin color. is.gd/QJssrK read more: bit.ly/4rXntT5

For the local folks, grab a copy of my 1st book at Marcus Bookstore ✊🏾

"Just as hair follicles are important as they anchor each strand of hair into the skin, divide + grow cells to create the hair shaft + are nourished by blood vessels that contribute to overall growth, Black women’s humanity is an interconnected ancestral line that cannot be broken..." bit.ly/4rXntT5

I love my hair. Daily affirmations are a reminder that what we say about & to ourselves plays a role in the development of our sense of self & who we grow to be. This set of Afro-mations is a daily reminder to trust in the beauty, power, & ancestry rooted in our tresses & in ourselves. is.gd/2Q5MOo

Toni Morrison (2013) said, “Look to yourself. You free. Nothing & nobody is obliged to save you but you . . . Somewhere inside you is that free person I’m talking about. Locate her & let her do some good in the world” (p. 108) & with this book, I aimed to save myself and do some good. bit.ly/4rXntT5

"Healing is not just about what we experience in the present, it's also about how we understand the past, how we name our histories and frame the times in which we live." —Susan Raffo

“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect”—June Jordan

My girl is now 3, & I'm learning different ways to do her hair. I'm also hyper-aware of the messaging I impart on her while doing it. Am I saying we have 2do her hair? Am I putting more effort 2styling her hair if we go 2 events? Am I bemoaning detangling? bit.ly/4rXntT5

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid“. —Audre Lorde

In order to create, we embody what we imagine . Feeding is not illusive. —Aja Monet

This book began as I grappled with the evolution of my hair and pedagogy and recognized the parallels between the two. bit.ly/4rXntT5 | eghosaobaizamomwan.com/book-links

“if [we] create a world where Black women are free, everyone else will be free, because the systems we have to destroy to make that a reality, free everyone else” (Autumn Breon, 2024). 🙏🏾 bit.ly/4rXntT5

How can Black women extend feminist killjoy work? What would it look like to have purposeful&organized chaos agents in education, making it our business to fuck up peoples joyful & advantageous ties to antiBlackness by sabotaging benefits received from it? bit.ly/4rXntT5

On the song, A Milli, Lil Wayne raps, "I'm a Young Money millionaire / Tougher than Nigerian hair" to signal to everyone that Nigerian hair is the coarsest of them all. As a Black woman educator, I channel this toughness & move to embody all that my hair and beyond has taught me. bit.ly/4rXntT5

“Reading A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences by Eghosa pulled me closer to the stories I tried to bury. (Re)membering these stories is an act of decolonization". --Dr. Bettina L. Love bit.ly/4rXntT5

“In discussing straight, protective, and natural styles I do not aim to denote that any one style is “right” or “wrong.” Rather, work to contextualize & engage with the historical precedents that impact how we, as Black women, move to embody revolution and evolution through our hair” bit.ly/4rXntT5

As Black women, our explicitly political approach to education links the acquisition of knowledge with collective efforts overcome subjugation….. And overcome we do. bit.ly/4rXntT5

Call for tracks (papers) for Black Educology volume 5 featuring Dr. Jamilia Lyiscott is here! Share widely bit.ly/46Hs6Zd

“When they tell the Black girl she can’t play mermaid, ask them what their people know about holding their breath underwater. About giving their bodies to the current, about all the things that float” (Smith & Johnson, 2024, p. 18). 🙏🏾 bit.ly/4rXntT5

Part of my desire to write this book is grounded in making clear that when we talk about Black women’s hair, we are talking about who we are, where we come from, and what our ancestors represent. bit.ly/4rXntT5

I use “synthetic white supremacy” in my work because both synthetic hair and white supremacy are manufactured and human-made creations constructed to depend on artificial processes to exist. Read more👉🏾 bit.ly/4rXntT5

Centering the (her)stories of Black women through their hairstories, including her own, she poetically embodies the dignity and necessary politic of unapologetically honoring the intersections of being Black and being woman. —Farima Pour-Khorshid bit.ly/4rXntT5

Black women, say it with me: “I AM EVERYTHING” (Doechii, 2024)!! 🙏🏾 bit.ly/4rXntT5

Eghosa's words, part biography, part manifesto, & part blueprint are plaited into a basket to carry the experiences of multiple Black women (re)discovering identities damaged, desiccated, and disrupted through schooling experiences. -Dr. Andre Carter bit.ly/4sVqowz

In looking at Black women as art, we can disrupt the broad strokes often used to paint us and instead home in on the fine, detailed strokes necessary to illuminate the intricate, nuanced, and beautifully rendered women we are. bit.ly/4rXntT5

"What if education wasn’t just about learning facts… but about learning how to be fully human?” Join the conversation about Black identity, feminism, education, + self-knowledge...revealing how reclaiming our stories can transform not only classrooms, but entire communities. youtu.be/-9XA8QBVgKc?...

In our perpetual battle to retain what is ours as Black women, the institution of education has made moves to steal our shine, steal our culture, steal our ideas, then rebrand and sell it as the new Bo Derek educational package😒 Read more 👉🏾Share/support bit.ly/4rXntT5

"I'm writing for Black people. I don't have to apologize." —Toni Morrison

The author 🫣the first page 🙏🏾 the cover 🙌🏾 preorder 👉🏾bit.ly/4rXntT5

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. —Sydney J. Harris

Reminder to celebrate Black womens enduring beauty. My 1st book explores Black women’s hair experiences as resistance and identity formation. Giving away book kits for folks interested in adding this to their book club reads Please share & preorder 🙏🏾https://bit.ly/4rXntT5

Abbott Elementary is unreasonably good for a show so wholesome

Eghosa invites readers to consider what is needed to recruit, prepare, retain, + nurture Black women in a field that has shamefully failed them since the inception of schooling.-Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid bit.ly/4rXntT5

If you are interested pop culture with a lot of black culture this weeks epidsode, Loving on Black Hair, is for you. open.substack.com/pub/blakegab...

My first book & during Black History Month…na wow! This book offers a new exploration of how Black women’s hair experiences can serve as a critical framework for reimagining pedagogy, identity, and resistance in educational spaces. Please share/preorder here 🙏🏾 bit.ly/4rXntT5 or bit.ly/4kBZCWn

To be seen, to be loved, felt-is a sacred act of regard. Articulations: A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy offers an invitation, a mirror, into the plight, fight, beauty, healing, and em (body) ed experiences of Black women. —Yaribel Mercedes bit.ly/4rXntT5