Do you know my book on Poetical Science Discourse, A2 (A Squared)? It's a research methods text that challenges that divide. A poem can generate data Theoy can interpret it and both together can become a citable scholarly contribution. DOI: doi.org/10.65724/XLD...

As a political linguist, I remain deeply concerned about the relationship between language and power. UWP's allyship with @sagepub.com is proof that we can persist & coexist. Watch the Full Video on Censorship📺 C-SPAN archive: www.c-span.org/program/book... @uwpbooks.bsky.social #publishers

Universal Write Publications (UWP) is proud to stand as an official sponsor of the First Global Afrocentricity Conference: An Indaba on Theory and Practice, convened by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante and the Molefi Kete Asante Institute. 📍 Philadelphia, PA 📅 May 16–17, 2026 @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social

Climate Change is here. How will you help protect our earth ?

Applications now open for TA positions. It says political science but the teaching is actually interdisciplinary. You need to be a current PhD student in the UK though. Do apply if this is you! www.ucl.ac.uk/pg-teaching-...

Join us THIS THURSDAY for a book talk by Emily Sneff, author of When the Declaration of Independence Was News, at the JCB. All are welcome! In person registration: shorturl.at/1AYAI Virtual registration: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

HAPPY SMALL BUSINESS WEEK May 4-8, 2026 Thank you to our community, authors, book buyers, faculty, graduate students, vendors, researchers, and library systems who have inspired us with their support and commitment to expanding rigorous discourse. #wewilltellourownstory @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social

The future of the academy will not be confined to a single method, a single voice, or a single form. Uncover the mask of hidden value to academic research. 400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People 1619-2019 doi.org/10.65724/UJD... A2: Poetical Science Discourse DOI: doi.org/10.65724/XLD...

As a political scientist and political linguist, I study how language governs and shapes policy, identity, and belonging. But with A2, I wanted to do something more. I wanted to show that Poetry is not separate from research. It can literally be the research itself. DOI: doi.org/10.65724/XLD...

Poetry is powerful! What if we take poetry to organize, reverse “dog whistle politics” to speak power? What if we use art as scholarship, spit it through prose? What if it is science and methods, politics, and research variables? DOI: doi.org/10.65724/XLD... @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social

Beloved Poetry, We write to you not as an abstraction, but as a living force—felt, carried, and returned through every breath that dares to name the world anew. We see you. @poetrydaily.bsky.social @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory UWPBooks.com

It could be asked, could another scholar have done this work? The better question is who has the intellectual lineage, theoretical grounding, pedagogical depth, and disciplinary commitment to define a field at this level? Dr. Nah Dove and Dr. Molefi Kete Asante do. DOI: doi.org/10.65724/ZET...

The Fourth Amendment once made the home a sanctuary. The Supreme Court just chipped away at that protection. Under the Pretext of ‘Emergency Aid,’ Supreme Court Paves the Way for Unchecked Warrantless Home Invasions by Police tinyurl.com/443jkcu7 www.rutherford.org?utm_medium=p...

Today is International Women’s Day | Celebrating with Dr. Ayo Sekai~ Founder of Universal Write Publications, Rooted in Caribbean strength and diasporic intellectual traditions. @citeblackwomen.bsky.social @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social uwpbooks.com #wewilltellourownstory

I have been invited to participate as a distinguished panelist at the 18th National Black Writers Conference, hosted by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn, I’m coming home. Learn more: www.centerforblackliterature.org @uwpbooks.bsky.social

Sage Publications’ How to Do Research and Get Published webinar series. Amplifying Voices Strategies for Early Career Black Scholars in Academia 🔗 Register here: sagepub.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @sagepublishing.bsky.social @uwpbooks.bsky.social #WeWillTellOurOwnStory @blackdiasporanews.bsky.social

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Want to understand intersections of African, Indigenous, and European cultures and their evolution over time? Take a deep dive into the history of the Caribbean and all of the Americas! #benitobowl #afrolatine

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Was Scholarship: Poetical Science Discourse, applying a practical demonstration of method, meaning, and pedagogy. PRINT ISBN: 978-0-9742269-3-4 eBOOK ISBN: 978-1-942774-30-3 LOC: 2024902725 DOI: doi.org/10.65724/XLD... @centerblacked.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory

Panel, Cultural & BHM2026 MLK Library, Washington, DC Free & open to the public Registration required: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/15766884 This event invites scholars, students, educators, and community to engage freedom as history and theory. @blackdiasporanews.bsky.social #wewilltellourwonstory

A Moment of Inheritance & Emergence | Scholarship, Now & Forward We do scholarship that understands timing. Responsive. Present. Accountable and oriented toward generational impact. Let's be confident with intellectual courage. We are grounded, expansive, at the vanguard of change. uwpbooks.com

I did not set out to create A2 to blur the line between poetry and scholarship. A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse is a research methods text that challenges that divide. @poetrysociety.org.uk @centerblacked.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory @uwpbooks.bsky.social

Opinion | Most universities are committed to both diversity and free speech, yet many are unable to cope with the social consequences of passionate disagreement. https://chroni.cl/49Wy4HL

Dr. Gloria Wade-Gayles, a trailblazing scholar of African American literature and women's studies whose courageous activism and groundbreaking scholarship illuminated the experiences of Black women in American culture, has died.

Changing leadership is not troop removal. We remain vigilant against violent attacks in our communities. #Minnesota

Education at a Crossroads and the Truth and Diversity Matter Now! What we read, teach, cite, and share should protect: • History and culture • Diverse voices and scholarly inquiry • Rigorous standards & eqitable engagement UWPBooks.com @edbs.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory @lukezh.bsky.social

Social media is not a library. And it was never meant to hold our work forever. Platforms change rules, erase reach, or silence voices. Let us build systems to reach you directly, without distortion or disappearance. uwpbooks.com/follow-the-w... #wewilltellourownstory @lukezh.bsky.social

📊 Help advance research! Participate in this research study by completing a survey or joining a focus group/interview. Your expertise can inform meaningful research outcomes. Scan the QR Code for more information! #BlackHigherEd #HBCUResearchmatters #HBCUs #Howardu

The idea of Remmick as the Devil, but also having a keen interest in Sammie's music, evokes the myth of Robert Johnson at the crossroads, but in reverse - the Devil needs his music to create something powerful and new, and change the world accordingly. #Sinners #HATM

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Gracious.

@ayosekai-phd.bsky.social Poetical Science Discourse & Linguistic Imperialism ~ We can move free in a language meant to chain us ~ Download the FREE Curriculum Guide uwpbooks.com/resources/fa...

Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa! As time evolve and seasons change, don't forget to SPREAD A LITTLE HAPPINESS 🎉 #wewilltellourownstory

When we support Black bookstores and Black publishers, we invest in institutions that preserve scholarship, sustain classrooms, and carry Black intellectual traditions. UWPBooks merch is an affirmation of what we stand for. #wewilltellourownstory @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social @lukezh.bsky.social

The director Rob Reiner delivered an incredible number of widely acclaimed movies, from “When Harry Met Sally” to “Stand By Me” and “Misery.” On “Cannonball,” Wesley Morris reflects on the impact Reiner had on his life and why his films are so beloved. nyti.ms/3MJFrZR

This is my life. We love writing, and we love bookstores, but doing them all at once = zero accomplishments. Gotta admit, though, people watching is fun.

When I started UWP 22 years ago, I could not have imagined this moment. Now UWP is a scholarly home where Black research is essential and globally relevant. Thanks to SAGE's CEO Blaise Simqu, Dr. Asante & Geane. UWPBooks.com @sagepublishing.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory @scholarslab.bsky.social

Cost has become the dominant factor in graduate school decisions. https://bit.ly/3MqqJXq

In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

I will be joining a brilliant group of scholars for an int'l edited volume, presenting my chapter: 🔹 Surviving the Existential Question: The Scientific Method of Poetical Science Discourse in African Storytelling African Studies Association #ASA2025 – Atlanta, GA @uwpbooks.bsky.social #ASA #method

Like many firms on Wall Street, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's hedge fund used a limited partnership to avoid Medicare taxes. Unlike the others, he’s now overseeing the IRS.

BOYCOTT CENSORSHIP this holiday season 🖤 WEAR THE MOVEMENT. LIVE THE MESSAGE. Stand with indie booksellers, cultural vendors, and UWP Books to uplift the next generation of thinkers who refuse to be erased. Explore the collection: uwpbooks.com/merch uwpbooks.com/merch/ @ayosekai-phd.bsky.social

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP

Thinking about Jamaica and the future of freedom. #afrofuturism

The Violence of Words~ Linguistic Imperialism is a tool that sustains systemic oppression. This is the systemic nastiness embedded in English. A grotesque masquerade of civility that undergirds racial capitalism, educational inequity, and psychological warfare. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ayo...

Sharing - This new award—granting a $10,000 prize to a high-school senior whose creative work exemplifies courage, integrity, and the power of storytelling—honors Chinua Achebe. social-impact.penguinrandomhouse.com/our-awards/u... @uwpbooks.bsky.social @centerblacked.bsky.social

Join me for the Caribbean Preservation Alliance Career Panel, sharing my expertise in storytelling as data and my methodology, PSD. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @uwpbooks.bsky.social #wewilltellourownstory @blackdiasporanews.bsky.social @centerblacked.bsky.social