Librarians are the pillars of society, change my mind

The Racial Construction of Neoliberalism by @arunkundnani.bsky.social is my fave text that I've read so far among 3 classes so far this semester. Just needed to place that thought somewhere lol

just logged into linkedin for the first time in weeks and this was one of my notifications (????). I'm sure there's someone studying the ways corporate media and platforms uptake the use of (queer) AAVE 😵‍💫

It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.

fell down a rabbit hole of productivity today. looked up and its 8pm and i've organized my zotero collection, started on my personal website, re-wrote my professional bio (was putting that off for months/confused about research interests lol)

"Participating institutions retain full copyright ownership of their materials. Digitization occurs on-site with all digital files returned directly to the HBCU. Getty and Ancestry also provide campus-wide access to Ancestry’s genealogical research tools." insightintoacademia.com/hbcu-history...

This is an open biblio that you are welcome to add your work to, if you work fits into critical data center studies:

Now more than ever it's important that we open our purses and help fund independent journalism! I am a monthly contributor to Hammer & Hope, a magazine rooted in Black politics and culture that centers transnational coalition building across the global majority. givebutter.com/hammerandhope

"gen alpha phrases" and it's just phrases that Black people across generations say... "ate that up" is black QUEER language and "secure the bag" has been around since I was at least in middle school

People in Gaza are posting final messages.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

📍The Book I’ve Been Holding in My Chest I’ve been writing a book for years—one shaped by a single question:Who gets to be understood online? It’s about grief, algorithms, and Gakirah Barnes.She was 17.She was brilliant.Her life—lived on Twitter—has something to teach us all.

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

also I'm sorry I have to keep breaking the news to people that chatGPT can apparently speak Patois now

we are in so much trouble, dear lord

I don’t have enough characters to explain here but this has me thinking about how changes in how we consume media (viewing TV collectively vs streaming individually) has shifted how much younger generations likely know about artists before their time.

SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history. Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America." reactormag.com/the-devil-in...

Cannot believe this was his debut. Amazing performance!

After two [IMAX] viewings of SINNERS, I finally wrote my review. As you can imagine, it's about 1500 words. Yet, simply put, if I had seen this as a religiously-stifled teen, it would've liberated me sooner. #SinnersMovie Read my five-star review here: rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

Hello! #SinnersMovie is somebody’s dissertation chapter! Need all the historians who were in the writers room to come to the front 😭

Well profs, "would you help the Gestapo?" is a live question.

I'm one of the 15 mill whose data 23andme has and I know I'm among the minority when I say this but I don't really regret my decision. I made it knowing full well the risks, and as a very nerdy person I learned a ton! I took the little tutorials they provide to learn about what the genetic..

the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty they are also really, really stupid

UPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down. Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues. hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit...

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Just completed the first round of march madness for racism/greatest oppressors of all time. The Reagan v Andrew Johnson was particularly difficult Re: @michaelharriot.bsky.social www.contrabandcamp.com/p/march-madn...

Wow!

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

Charles Mills hive, wya!?

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

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...

Same and agree.

Columbia heaping shame upon shame.

Columbia University admin should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Way to (consistently) be on the wrong side of history again and again

I bet columbia university has some decent legal resources they could focus on the state disappearance of a columbia university student, if they were in the mood

One of my fave small things about living in west Philly are all of the porch wind chimes ✨

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

And, if you're more into visuals, here's the comparison of where student loan news article authors attended undergrad compared to the national enrollment (I share this figure every quarter or so). The community college comparison remains astounding. 3/

Women's History Month kicks off with the birthdays of Harriet Tubman (3/1) and Elaine Brown (3/2), btw 🎉

Oh yeah this reminded me I was supposed to be scheduling a titer test this week.

Philly friends — No Other Land is playing at Philadelphia Film Society with multiple showtimes this week filmadelphia.org/movies/no-ot...

The NO OTHER LAND team on the red carpet 😭

"Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects." (Freire, 1970)

Re: The recent Oval Office ambush

Happy birthday to my wonderful Alma mater, the place that raised and transformed me — @howard.edu ❤️💙✨

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

Angie’s music (all neo-soul) reminds me of childhood and my mama… let me give her a call.