In "Transatlantic Disbelonging," Bimbola Akinbola redirects the focus in diaspora studies through the study of Nigerian diasporic women artists navigating disparate geographies, allegiances, and identities. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/JusuMms

As someone who earned UG degrees at IU in Rel. Studies & Comp. lit, this is devastating to see. IU religion is one of the top rated programs in the country. Many religion profs including me started at IU. Same with folklore. Also, this will harm the economy. Authoritarianism hates education.

We have exciting new titles out this July, including "When the Bones Speak" by Christopher T. Nelson. Check them out! #AsianStudies #Anthropology buff.ly/AfCjdNC

Applications Now Being Accepted for Two Artist Fellowship Programs at Princeton University Artists in all disciplines are invited to apply for Princeton Arts Fellowships and Hodder Fellowships – deadline September 9.

📍 DC

In her new memoir "Beautiful Mystery," @danilynrutherford.bsky.social‬ tells the story of her life with her daughter Millie, who cannot communicate verbally, which has taught her that we do not need to understand someone to love them. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/445b3n8

The latest issue of, "Transforming Anthropology" is available now! www.transforminganthropology.org/current-issue

For a breather today if you need. #nokings

Clearing space for #BlackWomen today, I’m reminded of the strength I found in Quirky Black Girls. We need that spirit now more than ever. Check out this interview with Moya Bailey & L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire on holding space for counternarratives. youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...

Please check out the new Journal of the African American Intellectual History Society, *Global Black Thought*! jbhe.com/2025/06/univ...

"Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage," a special issue of Radical History Review, is now available. View the TOC and read the editors' introduction and "The Political Lives of Haiti's Marron Inconnu," both made freely available: buff.ly/LX4w4ac

senior editor @mpgphd.bsky.social talks underworlding and Zora Neale Hurston with the brilliant @ahmadgreene.com in the latest edition of Phoning It In! religiondispatches.org/phoning-it-i...

So great to read @mpgphd.bsky.social's conversation with @ahmadgreene.com about his new book, *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which is a game-changer. #AfAmReligion

Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social research fellow @ahmadgreene.com on *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans,* which will be published by the University of Chicago Press on May 6. The book is shipping now.

If you missed the fantastic @xroadproj.bsky.social webinar on "Materiality and Africana Religions," organized by @antheabutler.bsky.social, you can watch the recording in the project's media library: crossroads.princeton.edu/events/cross...

Congrats to @judithweisenfeld.com on the publication of Black Religion in the Madhouse! Earlier this month we had a conversation with Judith and other leading scholars, find the conversation on many different platforms and check out some resources for learning/teaching these interesting topics!

Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

we love @mpgphd.bsky.social and yvonne chireau!!

Check out @xroadproj.bsky.social Media and Technology Consultant @mpgphd.bsky.social’s conversation with Crossroads Fellow Yvonne Chireau about *Sinners.*

Really looking forward to this!

Spare a thought (& a prayer, if that's your jam) for those who lost their lives- and those who grieve them apnews.com/article/domi...

The Museum of African American History in Boston is losing federal funding. You can help. (Or find something local). I know we can't save everything that gets defunded. This is the one I've supported today.

Join us next Thursday, April 10th at 3pm for our next episode of Religion &! Religion & The Madhouse featuring Judith Weisenfeld will explore her new book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake (NYU Press, 2025). Register: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

Join us for a Webinar on *Materiality and Religion in Africana Religions: Informed Pasts, New Perspectives* With Tracey Hucks, Henry Drewal, Rhon Manigault-Bryant, and Elizabeth Pérez Friday, April 4, 2025 @ 1:30pm ET

In addition to the film screening on April 3, there will be a symposium on Friday, April 4 on *Material Religion in the African Diaspora* at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. You can see the schedule and register for the symposium and/or the webinar here: crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Coming Fall 2025 from @fordhampress.bsky.social Co-edited with the amazing @clukasik.bsky.social. It’s also lovely to see another one of my photos grace the cover of a FUP book. 🎉

Philadelphia area folks: @antheabutler.bsky.social is hosting a screening of the film *Dahomey* as part of an @xroadproj.bsky.social symposium on materiality and Africana religions. Thursday, April 3 @ 5:00pm at Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street. crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Wonderful news!! Congratulations Dr. Christina Sharpe 🎉🎉🎉

So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)! The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others. An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips “What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned archives?” soundcloud.com/soul-express...

Congratulations to Crossroads Community Stories Fellow Fatima Siwaju an @aarweb.bsky.social research grant with Rasul Miller for a project on Islam and the Black Atlantic tradition. aarweb.org/news/2025-lu...

It feels strange to celebrate during these times with all that is going on. I hope that sharing this good news spreads some joy (so needed right now). Giving thanks to my partner, family, friends, and Spirit for all their support. And many thanks to Wenner-Gren and School for Advanced Research.

Are you a humanities PhD looking for a way out of the academy? This is a really fantastic looking fellowship with a deadline coming up soon: $70k+ stipend for two years to work with non-profits interested in social justice www.acls.org/competitions...

🚨 Last chance to apply for this position! Lots of opportunities for learning, developing new projects, and collaborating with a large multi-national & interdisciplinary team. We're funded by an international organization with funding guaranteed for the next 3 years. Thanks for reposting!

Call for Proposals, Wenner-Gren Seminar. The Wenner-Gren Foundation seeks proposals for its new Seminar program. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2025. buff.ly/4hQCyRC

Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions. We’d love to receive your proposal! #anthrosky

We are thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 Crossroads Fellows, whose projects -- photography, oral history, fiber arts, music, comics, ecology, mapping, fiction, and more -- will be presented on our SPIRIT HOUSE site. Read about the new fellows here: crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...

Come work with me!

Join us for our next Ethnographic Design Co.Lab: Exploring Multimodal Forms - Embodied Knowledge and Modes of Repair Our workshop with Dr. Deborah Thomas will think through abstraction as a representational mode. RSVP by Feb 19, with the code provided. Read more below about the event.

JOB: Mellon Teaching Fellow in Religion at Dartmouth. A two-year appointment for a scholar "whose research addresses questions in African American Religious Traditions" with a degree in Religion, African American Studies, History, or other related disciplines. Deadline 3/28

A big thank you to Jason De León, Lupe Alberto Flores, and everyone who came out to SITE SANTA FE to see Jason De León on Friday night! 💐 Co-presented with SITE SANTA FE. Support provided by the Mellon Foundation. #SchoolforAdvancedResearch #Events #SantaFe #SocialSciences

JOB: Tenure-track position at Spelman College in African American Religions with subfields including (but not limited to) womanist theology/ethics, African religious traditions in the diaspora, queer studies in religion, decolonial studies in religion, and/or science and religion. Deadline: 3/10

@jodepresser.bsky.social Welcome!

Something people (including me whoops) have not been mentioning much, is that LA is straight up on it’s 4th day of anti-ICE protests, predominately led by the HS students. As in students are ditching class to walk out to protest ICE in our city.

Alice Coltrane: Artist’s Muse and Sonic Healer Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

JOB: The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) and Yale Divinity School invite applications for a faculty position with the interdisciplinary program in Music and the Black Church who will also serve as its Associate Director. Deadline: 2/15/2025

JOB: The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Social Justice, or Africana Studies. Deadline: 2/27

"The most salient lesson from “Sower,” for me—and one that runs throughout Butler’s work—is about the innovation and adaptation required to survive the unsurvivable." Lessons for the End of the World | Hanif Abdurraqib www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...