also a reminder that an untold number of Black women lost jobs during covid shutdown, still have yet to find employment, & have been swept under the rug in the conversation about BW losing jobs...

Yes! Incredible. Thank you for sharing.

Please avoid all salads, including word.

Artists create, even during times of chaos. In response to Trump policies and ICE's incursions, arts organizations are leaning in to new ways of fostering community in ways large and small. n.pr/4wKy99Q

I received news yesterday that my #Substack is officially a bestseller. This is kind of cool and maybe you should subscribe! Jennmjacksonphd.substack.com

"I understood words on the page much more than I understood speaking to actual people" This piece really spoke to me and what growing up felt like through my eyes

My daughter's first Marfan Syndrome related surgery is on Tuesday. Please send all the good energy.

For the #BlackFeministBookClub, I read and reviewed Ruha Benjamin's incredible book Imagination. It calls us to take seriously how our societal lack of imagination has reshaped the world. I love how it engages with imagination in our everyday Iives. jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/black-femi...

This is a disaster created by the GOP. It's important to identify the culprits. It was directly created by them as POLICY. They clearly articulated that this was what they hoped to accomplish. gothamist.com/news/food-pa...

American politics has been dominated by a right-wing temper tantrum over making minor, sensible, socially responsible sacrifices for the last 15 years. "We're are not going to eat our vegetables and you cannot make us" as governing philosophy.

Greetings all, I am the EIC at Black Youth Project and Black Life Everywhere. We are working on building out a symposia in Oakland in November in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. Any Oakland-based artists, writers, spaces, etc. we should engage with?

Yikes!!

Wait, you… use libraries? Code that other people wrote for you? You just… download it? Do you even read the code? Do you not care about the craft, the knowledge that comes from putting in the work yourself? Aren’t you afraid your skills will atrophy?

It is so disconcerting watching the direct consequences and impacts of this administration's mishandling for foreign and national policy in real-time. The entire world is worse off because of the decisions of one man.

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

I can't imagine having a job that requires me to praise fascists after they die.

“You lie. You lie all the time,” the school owner said to the student. She then directed classmates to attack him. She gave one a high-five. This private school, funded with tax dollars, is among an explosion of private schools in the past 3 years. www.propublica.org/article/arks...

Once again, public libraries as infrastructure. We need to find them at a MINIMUM of 0.5% of the city expense budget.

Yes, Trump made them worse. But refusing to recognize the toxicity of the pre-Trump Republican Party that made it so easy for Trump to take over will undermine efforts make REAL change when Trump is gone. Case in point: Lindsey Graham. This was in 2010!! www.politico.com/story/2010/0...

I want to put this article alongside this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just a reminder that more than 800k Black women have been pushed out of the labor/employment market since Trump took office. How we are not talking about that daily is astounding to me.

Get ready for the parade of politicians and media figures telling us a lying fascist warmonger was a wonderful human being.

Imagine you die and the entire internet and world erupts in applause.

I have been navigating an AuDHD diagnosis since November. And, it has sent me into a state of grief for all the past versions of me. In this reflection, I seek to hold it all, the good, bad, and in-between of being an autistic Black woman. Read the article at Jennmjacksonphd.substack.com.

Y'all. I just found a message on IG from a coworker from Disney who I've known for nearly 20 years. She bought five copies of my book and is donating them to libraries in all the places where I've lived!!! YALLLL. My heart is full AF. Sheesh. 🥹🥹🥹

Slavery was legal. Debt peonage was legal. R*ping enslaved Black women was legal. Child labor was legal. Seizing native lands was legal. R*ping your wife was legal. Discriminating based on race, gender, ability, & immigration status *are* legal. Something being legal doesn't make it ethical.

Trump gets to cheat everyone, including Death, because we're collectively too chicken to do anything to stop him.

This is murder.

Remember when Hillary Clinton had a cough while campaigning in 2016 and the right suggested that she might be dying?

I want all the best things for Zohran Mamdani.

Digital culture needs archival work, too. @blaqueword.bsky.social did us a major solid by writing FOREVER FOR THE CULTURE to archive Black digital culture and Black digital art! 🙏🏽 @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social

Annnd Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Explores Black women writers, and leaders in movement work and theory in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

@sjjphd.bsky.social The Second Sight: How The Wonder & Vision of Black MediaMakers Push America Toward Freedom When Black mediamakers raise their voices and speak truth to power about America, how they push us toward a future more aligned with/espoused values. bookshop.org/p/books/a-se...

@itsafronomics.blacksky.app The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid Looks at what happens you look at the costs that define a woman’s entire life, especially across racial lines? Relevant in these economic times bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

It’s #Juneteeth! Find a way to support Black people today. And one way to do that? Buy (or request from library) Black Author’s Books that speak to this moment (thread 🧵) Like, The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential To American Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them)

The contract for my next academic book is officially official. I will publish my current research on young Black organizers and intersectional movement making with @ucpress.bsky.social 💜🤓📚

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

JD Vance's new talking point today is that actually Trump has great relationships with Iran, the country he's been bombing off and on for more than 3 months

A $60 million White House spectacle gave a platform to attacks on Michelle Obama—an embarrassment that should be condemned by everyone involved. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The right's obsession with Michelle Obama (an excellent person and First Lady) is a tiny peek into their deeper hatred of Black women. They are saying the quiet part out loud.

My next book, POLICING BLACKNESS: HOW THREAT SHAPES BLACK POLITICS, comes out in exactly one year with @cornellupress.bsky.social. Mark your calendars beloveds.

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Octavia Butler didn't hit the NYT best-sellers list until 2020, 14 years after her passing. This place has no respect for Black women's creativity.

My daughter is having her first Marfan Syndrome related surgery this summer to correct a severe curvature in her spine. She has scoliosis which is common for folks with Marfan's. We're lucky to have had care early on to diagnose her at 3 years old. This is Marfan. *image shared with permission

I want to be so excited about bell hooks's works hitting the NYT Best-sellers List but all I can think about is how folks always wait until after Black women die to honor and support us.

Imagine if a Black woman fell asleep at work everyday on camera. Imagine.

Baseball and How Not To President. Plus so many links @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @rickhasen.bsky.social @dcinbox.bsky.social @smotus.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social and many more goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/baseball-a...

I have a pub date for my next book. I'll spend summer resting. In fall, I'll have details about the cover, book tour, etc. I'll be prioritizing my subscribers on Substack. They'll get info before socials. If you'd like to be in the know, subscribe at jennmjacksonphd.substack.com

An article I drafted in my second year of graduate school in 2015 was just accepted at the Journal of Urban Affairs. I am ELATED about this new work and it FINALLY seeing the light of day.

My second book is in production at Cornell University Press. My third book is under review at a leading academic press. My fourth book is on its way to a leading press. My fifth book is fully drafted and in its third round of edits. I'm going to be in these publishing streets for a while, beloveds.