I personally like it when people who have never had to work a third shift job a day in their life like to tell me how elite I am. It’s a top ten favorite.

REMINDER: Body cameras do NOT stop or even influence law enforcement’s practice of abusing Black and brown bodies. Indeed, U.S. policing originated as armed patrols for hunting and killing or capturing enslaved Black people who’d escaped bondage. Racist abuse is part of American law enforcement. 🇺🇸

I think we may be calling too many things “mutual aid” and it could use some clarity.

Sometimes I just randomly shout, “TO WHAT END!”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Pro-tip: if you reduce your circle to only people who have ever asked a sincere question of you that expresses any curiosity about you at all, you will have fewer friends but also better sleep.

A few books into the year, and so far my favorite is Adebayo Oluwayomi’s Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy.📚

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

Sadly, there are many errors in the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com obituaries on Colvin. Please read Phillip Hoose's award-winning Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice for more on Claudette's Colvin life and courage.

Colvin stopped straightening her hair after the May trial. She was NOT pregnant when community leaders decided not to go forward with her case. She said the only adult who kept up with her that summer was Rosa Parks who wanted her to continue to be involved in the Youth Council.

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Truly.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

Hey so, if a [white] person self-identifies as an “ally” to Black people, it’s safe to assume they are NOT one. Anti-racist allyship is something ✨others✨ identify within the vanishing few who exhibit it. Kinda like someone insisting they’re funny—it’s an assessment more accurately left to others.

I haven’t gotten a single OOO email reply. Everyone is still working! We are in a RECESSION, y’all.

(slow, deep breath) Woosah. Okay, then. Moving on.

I am writing an entire academic book with my own critical thinking skills and orginal research. Nothing is touched by GenAI. Outlines, summaries of secondary sources, finding said sources, thinking though organization, writing, re-writing, cutting material. All of it done by my own human brain.

How come every time I mention my Black experience, I get a few replies with what about (other marginalized groups)? What makes you feel I’m that limited in my understanding of oppression, especially considering my job and what I teach?

Done* with meetings for the year and started holiday prep. And now reading my first 2026 book: Critical Health Communication: Theory and Practice edited by Sastry, Zoller, & Basu. www.routledge.com/Critical-Hea...

As everywhere: carolinapublicpress.org/73953/cultur...

Looking forward... www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

is this a presidential address or a QVC ad

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.

🗣🗣 You betta tell em Victor (If you've never read The Racial Contract, strong recommend)

Stop linking affirmative action to discrimination. You are looking for different words to describe white men getting preferential treatment. Try racism or sexism. The things affirmative action rectifies.

What sounds like “human” writing can never be disentangled from the fact that most of the world’s population has never been considered fully human by mainstream institutions

Indiana and Michigan 😵‍💫

Final lecture of the year is done! Still need to grade 😶.

Looking for new papers to include in my syllabus for an #EMCA course for undergraduates in health, pre-health, pre-med tracks. Please share new/forthcoming #EMCA (+adjacent) papers on patient-provider interaction (+tech +teams) beyond the well-knowns/wiki. Would love to include newer researchers.

New preprint with Thomas Graves and @annayahprosser.bsky.social: "Getting Creeped Out? Open Science, Qualitative Methods, and the Dangers of Positivism Creep". osf.io/preprints/so...

“Positivism Creep” “The subtle, often unacknowledged infiltration of positivist or post-positivist assumptions into methodologies where they do not naturally, philosophically, practically, or epistemologically belong.” By @thomasgraves.bsky.social @maddipow.bsky.social @annayahprosser.bsky.social

I get sad when I see sun dried tomatoes on examples of cringe "dated" food trends because it's got to be one of the best tomato innovations in tomato history.

For whoever needs to see this 💗

Gen Z grad unemployment rate high. Skilled gov workers (mainly millennials and X) shoved out. Artists with decades of experience have had careers eroded (e.g. “The Gen X Career Meltdown”). Science/research taken hits. Kids getting a message that nothing matters but speed, not accuracy nor learning.

The problem with “kids who use gen ai learn less” is that kids may no longer care if they learn less. They’re told to prioritize speed and quick answers. Worse, if they regularly see the people who “learned more” before gen ai gain no actual benefit from it, the incentive to “game” school increases.

Sunday is one of my writing days. Today I’m finishing a handbook chapter, compiling notes for an article revision due soon, and sketching out articles for the spring. There’s a half of a foot or more of fresh snow outside. So, I’m choosing to be inspired (rather than annoyed) by nature’s beauty.

U.S. immigration and citizenship policies are selective, and thus exclusionary, in terms of race, ability, and risk of being a public charge. And they’re a tool of geopolitics and used to repress critiques of capitalism and state violence. Both critics and supporters of immigration can neglect this.

Race studies is some of the most disrespected scholarship in the academy. Yet, as Stuart Hall said, “I am convinced that no intellectual worth his or her salt… can afford to turn dispassionate eyes away from the problems of race and ethnicity that beset our world.”

There is (1) research that aims to prove antiblackness is real and (2) research that seeks to reveal the mechanisms that reproduce antiblackness. Overlapping circles, and other types. The literature is flooded with (1). I don’t ask why anymore. Nod to June Jordan’s note on Host-Parasite relations.

Seriously, when you study the history of racism, a lot of things are not as brand new as we’re encouraged by the headlines to believe.

Whew, you talking good, Pastor!!! The student-as-customer also shifted the idea of learning for the value of learning to a kpi and quarterly goal, if you catch my drift. I’m ready to build something different because this ain’t it and it’s wearing my spirit LOW.

This entire thread is soberingly accurate. I teach class now, and most days I just want to find something else. I love teaching. I’ve also seen this coming since 2010/11 when I taught high school right by after undergrad. There is a real timeline to this but we’re experiencing the symptoms of a

📌 this.

A tactic of this system is to humanize what’s not human and dehumanize actual humans. Doing this normalizes the sociopathy of the elites and aspiring elites.

📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry. #EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry doi.org/10.1177/1077...

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