Here I talk about the genealogy of the term "sexuality" and how it is a critical site of scholarly inquiry. I also talk about attacks on gender studies now.

You used to be able to stream “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” on PBS’s website, but no more. Anyone know where else I could access it?

I had not appreciated how small a small coffee was.

Glad to see such a high level of discourse about local politics. #a2council

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

JD saying Detroit is unsafe and riddled with crime while in Howell…HOWELL?! The jokes write themselves.

Another batch of brown butter rye chocolate chip loading…

“McClure pointed to a growing trend of students recording profs & posting clips online to try to get them fired, saying it will be ‘incredibly hard for us to build a learning environment built on trust if as fac &staff, we’re constantly worried about whether or not we’re being recorded by someone.’”

For those who missed it, there were s’mores cookies at tonight’s Neighborhood Week events.

MORE exciting events tonight for Neighborhood Week! And there might even be more cookies 👀 #a2council

Neighborhood Week doesn’t just have educational opportunities and cool neighbors, it also has cookies! #a2council

I deeply resent being made to care about what happens to Jimmy Kimmel.

We’re like five minutes away from Jeopardy! being canceled because it had a category of the Civil War that featured correct answers

solidarity to all the faculty sweating and hewing in the recommendation letter mines

I know correlation isn’t causation, and I know numbers this small are anecdotes not data, but Redford, like Lynch, certainly does provide evidence towards the notion that trying to do good in your life might be related to continuing to get hotter right up until the day you pass from this earth

Everything is still bad BUT they reopened the Western sidewalk on State St!

Look, a new collection of Pat Parker's most crucial poems is coming out next month, selected by the fantastic scholar SaraEllen Strongman (@strongman.bsky.social) 👀 Please go pre-order it.

Including at Harpers fucking Ferry.

ah yes the corrosive ideology of truth

All my homies hate the Treeline Trail elevated bridge #a2council

Spread the word - the Dunbar Tower development will be accepting applications next month!! Pass along these info sessions to anyone looking for housing in the area #a2council #ypsi

Timely reminder about academic freedom from @aaup.org www.aaup.org/news/academi...

Canvassers for the creepy citizen voting measure are on campus today. Make sure you read the petitions you’re signing!

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Someone threatened to blow up the lieutenant governor of Michigan today, in case you want to decry political violence

The number of cybertrucks I see in Ann Arbor is ridiculous.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

I wonder if all these threats to African American institutions are linked to the flood of Fox News personalities screaming “we need to fight back”? Eh, probably just a series of incredible coincidences

Contentious times? You mean my entire career?

Why don’t students believe us when we tell them it’s obvious when they’ve used Gen AI to write a paper?

A good reason for faculty to join the @aaup.org , which fights for academic freedom and works to defend against attacks like this.

Wrenching and enraging. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Dear #A2Council: My path to local advocacy started with this hashtag. Now I am personally inviting each of you to join us at Neighborhood Week, a series of fun events beginning in only 5 days! There is something for everyone. Spots are limited - register now! MoreNeighborsA2.org/NeighborhoodWeek

SMH at the number of people making sure the Texas A&M professor who was fired wasn’t tenured/tenure track. It’s horrible either way and they’re just testing it out on lecturers, they’ll get to TT faculty in due time unless we all get together and stand up to this stuff

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

Meanwhile in Michigan free school meals for ALL KIDS will end shortly because the state republicans won’t pass a budget.

Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council

sorry to report my finest work remains relevant

The Supreme Court really said

FUCK OFF. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

The series was a game changer.

Just like the old saying goes, “Don’t throw stones if you live in two houses and claim principle residency exemptions on both of them”

Are YOU freaking out because suddenly the digital archive of materials about the history of your dept hosted by the university archives are suddenly inaccessible to students who need to use them for an assignment due tomorrow? No? Just me? Ok. Cool.

I assign a speech by Angelina Grimké in my Black Feminisms class. And every term students think she’s Angelina WELD Grimké, even though the speech is dated decades before her birth. It’s such a fun little case study. (And ofc I direct them to Kerri Greenidge’s book on the family.)

Week two of classes: Almost got run over by a lacrosse player on a moped.

No shit! “Black drivers still disproportionately stopped by police in Ann Arbor despite ordinance” www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... Like really, no shit, Sherlock! As CM Harrison put it: the ordinance “changed policy, but it did not change policing.” #a2council