I am heartbroken for Brown and the students, staff, and faculty who have to get through this. I hope they have everything they need to navigate such senseless brutality.

Kyle Mays joins the podcast to talk about music, indigenous studies, and the complicated history of Black Studies and how it shapes our vision of our future. Fantastic discussion, listen in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It's a structural problem caused by standardized testing, large classes, and a refusal to pay educators. I can't speak for secondary education, but I can say that at a college level, it's amazing how enthusiastic even your colleagues can be about gaslighting you that many of these are just fine.

Oh I’m sure

“Four Penn alumni in the national spotlight” and you won’t believe who they chose…I can’t stop laughing 😭😭

Using a concept of “plantation aesthetics,” my book explores how this promise of luxury created through the exploitation of labor, land & natural resources is embedded in the earliest days of Caribbean colonialism. www.pennpress.org/author/kim-h...

I love how you can turn any sandwich into a breakfast sandwich by putting it on a bagel (or croissant) and adding an egg

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

@seangallagher.bsky.social continues our comps series writing about strategies for preparing your comps reading lists: "Compiling the reading lists themselves takes time and reflection."

Good mail day! @pennpress.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social

I got blocked for this ☹️

Perfume helps me deal with Big Feelings and today’s feels demand a powerhouse for our #sotd so we’re going with Khamrah Qahwah by Lattafah. I was introduced to it by an Uber driver who kept a bottle in the car. I asked if I could sample it and was wowed by the longevity. #perfumesky #fragrancesky

Hear more about #foodhistory, #slavery, my journey to the book Sweet Taste of Empire & my life as a quilter!! #booksky #quiltsky #quilt #artsky #history podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

#sotd Pandan by d. grayi: A yeasty, creamy, vanillic gourmand—all the things I love—with a bright earthiness from the pine that keeps it from being too cloying. The pandan note is gorgeous and lush. I ordered a full bottle after the first spray. I’m obsessed. #perfumesky #fragrancesky

“There are enough voters out there who can absolutely turn an election & blow up what they are trying to do.” Our top story: A broad coalition are fighting for the spirit of their community, after GOP redistricting galvanized organizers.

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

My vague sense (based on a question I got from a recent graduate) is also that alumni of my institution eventually lose access to whatever university provided cloud storage they had while enrolled. They can end up losing a lot of their work because of it

Hello it's my birthday in 5 days! Each bday I raise and give money to the National Bail Out which raises bail and other funds to support Black women who have been separated from their families by the state. Would you consider giving a few bucks? @nationalbailout.bsky.social www.nationalbailout.org

There’s a beautiful statue and tribute to her in the Commonwealth Avenue park in Boston…one of my favorite parts of the city. The statue is wonderful… www.google.com/search?q=phy...

Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American female poet, died #OTD in 1784. Born in W. Africa, sold into slavery at 7 & one of the best-known poets in 18th-century America. Her achievements were a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement. poetryfoundation.org/poets/philli...#OTD#poetry

#sotd Strawberry Mochi by d’Annam— This was fine I guess? Kind of a less obnoxious version of DedCool’s Mochi Milk. Not really for me. #perfumesky #fragrancesky

“There’s no doubt in my mind that’s the intent…the worst thing is that politically mandated ideas will be taught instead of scientifically accepted concepts in our disciplines, or concepts that are recognized by the disciplinary experts.” – Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social

Very honored that my essay, "Who's Afraid of Frantz Fanon?" was selected as a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2025!

#sotd Scent of the day: Nearly Noon by DefineMe A lot of interesting things going on in the open—fig, cardamom, rice pudding. But it dries down to a pretty underwhelming coconutty sandalwood. Meh.

#sotd Scent of the day: Celestial Object by Liis. I get bitter almond and starchy rice paper. Very savory with little sweetness to my nose (but I love a sugar bomb). Barely picked up the top notes at all. Quite nice but probably not going to buy a full bottle.

Primo postdoc at Brown University, shared between the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and the John Carter Brown Library. apply.interfolio.com/175378

If you're near Harvard Square at all today, Lovestruck Books is collecting donations for us today! In store and online! Holiday Weekend Promotions | Lovestruck Books (scroll a bit to see the info)

My book and all other @uchicagopress.bsky.social titles are 30% off through December 3rd with the code HOLIDAY25. Get yourself and your friends a copy or twelve! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

you all haven't met a slaveholder you don't like yet huh

Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura! www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-... Then you can buy it at 40% discount.

I went undercover at a fancy hotel bar last night and I regret to inform you that the only class warfare happening in the US right now is between multimillionaires and billionaires 🙃🙃

I love how by the time we get to the 20th century (aka not my specialty) in the survey course I’m teaching I just default to reading them poetry every class

Vigilance committees were antislavery organizations that began forming in northeastern cities in the 1830s, often supported by Black churches, writes Jesse Olsavsky in our latest issue. Their work took on new urgency after the revamped Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

Tomorrow, Nov. 12 is the virtual book launch for ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS (Duke University Press, 2025). Please join me at 6pm Central (7pm ET)! The event is part of the University of Minnesota’s History Book Club and you can register here: cla.umn.edu/history/news...

A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters. The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself. And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.

Athletic Spice was really carrying the whole team on her back vocally speaking

year x of my wondering why conference hosts think I want to download an app for their conference

Editorial: BINJ Seeks Major Donors. Our long-term survival prospects would be greatly enhanced by connections to a few cool institutions and individuals. binj.news/2025/11/06/e... #journalism #appeal #Boston #Massachusetts

Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.” #hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...

Thousands of volunteers are racing to preserve America’s history — photographing museum exhibits they fear the Trump administration could erase.

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free! buff.ly/rccy0qL

I was at Harvard in the history department at this exact time and had friends who were TFing literally in that classroom and.... i'll just say that certainly was not any of our experience

Take time to read this interview in full. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about lessons from the Civil Rights Movement for this current moment. hammerandhope.org/article/nati...

"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives." Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

I just tried to use this yesterday so many thanks to that stranger 😭