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On 2/18 I’ll be joining an amazing group of historians of care work to discuss the history of nursing in the era of the American Revolution! Join us! www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/eve...

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

🤦🏾‍♀️ *sigh* there is so much to talk about in the Obama administration… one day…

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

What if we invested the money that we’re currently investing in AI avatars of dead loved ones into idk creating a livable world?

I searched the database. It is not just the POTUS and GOP in those emails. Dem establishment members and former POTUS are in there too. When the rest of the files are released there will be more.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

I just… don’t let the NYT slide folks. They’ve been a bad actor for a while. Some of us tried to tell you. I have a whole think piece in my head about how they enabled the rise and consolidation of a multicultural conservative right wing. Yes, even your faves from there are bigots. Goodnight.

This should be actionable

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.

FROM: [email protected] TO: [email protected] SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

it's almost like the production of knowledge is tangled up in questions of power

We swim in disinformation and the mainstream news media has been a part of producing that bs for at least the last decade. This isn’t my cynicism (frankly most days I’m optimistic), this is just truth. Mainstream media has us screwed and we deserve better. This can’t be changed unless it’s faced.

I think it’s healthy to question the politics and integrity of pretty much any journalist and editor who made the bulk of their career at NYT. I’ve saying this for a long time…

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

So, the NYT is even more trash than some of us thought. Some of us have been saying this for a long time…

The current context has had me thinking a lot about Black intellectual traditions. It’s a way of doing scholarship, indeed. But it’s also a way toward a useful pedagogical practice.

Amid the chaos in the world and the personal challenge of teaching 3 courses, I am happy to say I’ve arrived at the point in the semester when the threads I’ve been sewing with students for weeks are finally coming together.

This end game for millions of Americans without healthcare? What is it? Just a bunch of us sick & dying?

No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.

After seeing the TCB documentary, the Bambara quote “Do not cede the arena to the fools” has been on my mind. What does it look like when we don’t give up?

I’m not naive. This is daunting. We talked about that specifically. What it will take in this moment and whatever may come. But we didn’t wallow in despair. We talked about how to organize and work together toward transformation within and beyond academia. Don’t despair, work together, organize.

Had a full circle moment giving the MMUF Mid-Atlantic Conference keynote tonight! My first keynote ever. Meeting these students and future professors, I know the future is bright!

After taking a day to reflect, as New Yorker by birth who has always been priced out, and as someone who has been thinking deeply about the practice of Black Studies as it intersects with History, this is where I’m at about Mamdani’s victory:

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

Bluesky is not (yet) what Twitter was 5-10 years ago. That said, the scholarly community here feels worth staying for. I just finished a class where I taught readings folks recommended to me “on here” and the students loved it. Thank you SkyScholars!

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Keeping folks in Philly and around the country in mind for mutual aid as we brace for widespread food insecurity with Nov 1 hits. Also keeping Jamaica in mind for aid as Melissa bears down. So much at once. Too much.

Reflecting on the power of Indigenous Studies today and everyday as the discipline is under fire and still persists in transforming how we see the world.

Holding on to the power of Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies everyday. These disciplines are elemental to my understanding of history. And when they come for us as they have it’s because they see our transformative power and brilliance.

Universities like UT Austin have shown that they will place ideology and political power ahead of the most vulnerable students, faculty, and staff they serve. Fight against the closure of Black, Latino, and Gender Studies at UT Austin. Support our students. #Blacksky #polisky

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

As a historian with affiliations in Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies I am appalled by the news out of UT Austin. Please support the students, faculty, and alumni’s actions to preserve these departments and programs of study.

This is heartbreaking and terrifying in any instance, especially when it hits members of your scholarly community. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

At this point, from my little sphere as professor, I’m like, pedagogically, how do I respond to mass trauma? Not saying kids weren’t traumatized before now, but like we are going to see a generation of young adults who are sick from all this. As educators how do we even begin to respond?

The treatment of children in the 21st century… I am at a loss for words from Gaza and Greta to Chicago to Khartoum, to everywhere under attack, where aid has been relinquished and denied, where children can not access healthcare, gender affirming or otherwise. I am at a loss.

The event went well. swarthmorephoenix.com/2025/10/02/a...

Student editors ask some of my colleagues and I to reflect on the role of professors at our college today. Our responses: swarthmorephoenix.com/2025/10/02/o...

Even with a smaller class Black History Taboo was still a blast! After I teach the second half of the survey next semester, I will be working with a designer for a full deck!

We ended class in “Black Atlantic History” today by discussing social death and historical redress. A brilliant student argued that historical redress is insufficient if we don’t attend to Black people’s material circumstances and political exigencies in the present.