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Today at 1 PM! Join us to learn more about “Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary.”

EVENT: Don't miss @dark-stars.bsky.social discussing her new edited volume INSENSIBLE OF BOUNDARIES in a virtual book talk hosted by @congrelib.bsky.social for their 2025 Juneteenth Lecture on Thursday 6/19 at 1 p.m. ET! Register today to reserve your spot.

The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.

The 2025 edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar considers ways of being together while asking: what do we owe each other in this constellation of Black study? Join us for our public keynotes on June 9th, 10th and 11th. Tickets are available here: blk-s3tudies.com/events

Juneteenth is two weeks away, and we hope you’re making plans to spend an hour with us at 1 pm EDT hearing Dr. Kristin Moriah speak about the life and legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. Registration for this virtual talk is free and open to all at congregationallibrary.org/events/insen...

SUMMER READING SALE! Save 40% on all available books on pennpress.org with code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, now through Friday, June 20!

The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fourth of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current Legacy, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s amazing study of Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, & Black library use & creation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Make plans to join us for our 2025 Juneteenth Lecture, a virtual talk with Dr. Kristin Moriah about her book, “Insensible of Boundaries,” and learn more about trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893).

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the second of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, the powerful “We Need to Speak about Home” by Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Thank you all for this forum on Frances Ellen Harper! We're so greateful! Have a look at all those great contributions teased by Eagan Dean...

My publisher - Feminist Press - had their 35k NEA grant terminated. This is the highest level of government censorship attacking marginalized voices and stories. Please support FP by donoting, buying their books from your local bookstore, or from their website #NEA #neagrants www.feministpress.org

Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!

New drop in the @legacy1984.bsky.social Frances Harper Special Issue: "We Need to Speak about Home: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Domestic Concerns" dx.doi.org/10.1353/leg....

Tonight is the #MetGala, celebrating the upcoming opening of the new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which was inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion." buff.ly/BTlV1TY

The first event for 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 will be a pre-release @haymarketbooks.org virtual event next Wednesday, 4/30 at 5pm ET featuring Garrett Felber in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

the crisis sure isn't wasting time (if you're excited about #3, you shouldn't be)

I can hardly believe that I was just inducted into membership in the @amantiquarian.bsky.social. But I am excited to join the ranks of colleagues like @profgardner.bsky.social @drkmttr82.bsky.social @xineyaophd.bsky.social and @benbascom.bsky.social. And I’m so excited to see what the future holds!

The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.

🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting @c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19 Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies stereotypes & tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools. www.wired.com/story/openai... Even if users expressly try to avoid stereotypical outputs, they may not be able to do so.

Today marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting New York City. Despite adversity, our city showed remarkable resilience. Discover tales of ableism and disability activism in "How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic," a chronicle into the lives reshaped by the crisis.

Interesting way to increase American manufacturing, by making materials ridiculously expensive

We’re just getting started, pls join us! Link in bio

With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Every stupid university that unleashed militarized police on legal protestors set up the foundations for the violent persecution of free speech that’s about to come.

Very excited to share that this beautiful little volume of poems by the late, visionary Essex Hemphill, which I co-edited with the brilliant Robert Reid-Pharr & for which he wrote the introduction & I the afterword, will be out next week (March 5) from New Directions! www.ndbooks.com/book/love-is...

ICYMI: The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary event is now posted on the @amantiquarian.bsky.social YouTube channel. Take a look!

Tonight! Join me and Nneka Dennie online at 7 PM for The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. I'll be talking about Shadd Cary's queerness and my new volume, Insensible of Boundaries: bit.ly/4b8EgLA

Tonight! Join me and Nneka Dennie online at 7 PM for The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. I'll be talking about Shadd Cary's queerness and my new volume, Insensible of Boundaries: bit.ly/4b8EgLA

Tune in Weds 2/19 at 7 PM EST for The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary hosted by the American Antiquarian Society! I'm excited to talk about my book & Shadd Cary's perspectives on transnationalism, economic self-determination, & women's rights. Register at www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12919

Happy Birthday to an inspirational radical. May his spirit stir us all to brace against the chill winds now blowing

Join me and Nneka Dennie next week on Wednesday, February 19 at 7 PM ET for an @americanantiquarian.bsky.social virtual public program, “The Many Legacies of Mary Ann Shadd Cary” — register for the free program here: linktr.ee/americananti...

The lawsuit alleges that Meta “unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately advertising for-profit colleges and universities to Black users while marketing public colleges and universities to white users.”

Bleakly funny that some of these legislators still know so little about what they're railing against that they write bill language that tries to ban "any programs, including academic programs or courses, or offices that promote or endorse . . . heteronormativity" and think that's what they wanted.

As we look ahead to C19 2026 in Cincinnati, we are excited for our next C19 virtual event, a discussion of the life, work and activism of Ohio native Charles Chesnutt! The event will be on Feb 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 1:30 PM PST Check your email inboxes for the link!

Rest In Peace to Sandra Bland who would be 38 today ✊🏾✊🏾 (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015)

To accompany our conversation, we put together a great reading list spanning Callaloo's history, including poetry, fiction, memoir, visual art and so many great interviews! All pieces on @projectmuse.bsky.social are free to read thru the end of February! www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/cal...

“...In anything relating to our people, I am insensible of boundaries.” Mary Ann Shadd Cary to Frederick Douglass, 1859. pennpress.org/9781512826616/

Announcing our 2025 Black History Month sale! Browse our collection of African American history and studies books from the past five years, and save 40% on paperbacks and hardcovers and 50% on ebooks! www.pennpress.org/black-histor...

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

OCHU-CUPE said that the latest data shows ER patients in #Kingston wait 21 hours to be admitted on average, part of a larger #healthcare problem across #Ontario. #YGK #KFLA #onpoli #HealthcareWorkers Details: www.kingstonist.com/news/hospita...

“Fentanyl Czar.” I hate it here.

It’s a good day to focus on the things I can control, which mostly means my writing.