Nothing makes me a better Professor than remaining a student. I love to enroll in classes, partly to remember the vulnerability of surrendering to the porous process of learning. What post-PhD coursework have you enjoyed?

So many memoirs on mothers… for my feminist memoir class that will be a whole unit. What are your favorites?

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

Enter the Dragon Baby!! Happy 1st birthday to my baby. Bruce Lee-themed party.

These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask - why are so many lacking access to medical care? - why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids? - why is life expectancy falling? - why are meds unaffordable?

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

It’s our Birthday Month! 🎉 Today marks 38 years of Paper Based Bookshop—spotlighting Caribbean stories & voices. Most of all, thank you to our readers, writers & community. You keep our shelves alive with myths, histories & narratives of the Caribbean. 🧡📚 Team Paper Based 🧡

The real pleasure of teaching a grad seminar on the Colonial/Global Early Modern is digging into edgy scholarship with amazing CUNY students! This week @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social, next week @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social 💯

My Dream Date! Cute. 🐋🥲

NYC whale watching cruise 🐋 with friends and members of Dark Lab 🧪 and @huntercollege.bsky.social students to celebrate our 5 year anniversary. 38 folks joined us this year on an epic voyage to the high seas. We saw dolphins 🐬 synchronized aquabatics and contemplated the Haitian Revolution.

Tonight 🔥🔥 dessert with one of our Dark Lab artists-in-residence Maya

One of the most important things when it comes to controlling what happens in the future is controlling what people are allowed to imagine today.

Setting up my Lab 👩🏽‍🔬 in the heart of NYC @huntercollege.bsky.social ✅ social justice ✅ media theory ✅ urban ecologies

Dark Laboratory @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social confirms

If you make an argument for your humanity or presence, you’ve already lost what should never have been in question in the first place.

“Teaching is healing.” ❤️‍🩹 A wonderful friend said this. I’ve been teaching university students since 2011 when I began at Yale. What a journey now teaching @CUNY in the time of AI. Together my 70 students and I are embracing NYC as our lab 🧪 we went whale watching today.

I gave 35 public lectures / talks this past academic year, but I haven’t been to a conference since 2022. No looking back. Feels good! Academic conferences are so full of anxiety. And if you don’t feel it maybe you’re the one causing it?

Hamptons Summer - 2025 - celebrating 5 years of my climate research Lab. darklaboratory.com

“Teaching is healing.” ❤️‍🩹 A wonderful friend said this. I’ve been teaching university students since 2011 when I began at Yale. What a journey now teaching @CUNY in the time of AI. Together my 70 students and I are embracing NYC as our lab 🧪 we went whale watching today.

So so good. Had to stop and do a deep dive at “What is the river you were born closest to?”

Hamptons Summer - 2025 - celebrating 5 years of my climate research Lab. darklaboratory.com

Nightclubbing/ Night School at CUNY with Prof Goffe. #KingstonNoir Caribbean Literature. @huntercollege.bsky.social

🔥 parade weekend stack 💎

Nightclubbing/ Night School at CUNY with Prof Goffe. #KingstonNoir Caribbean Literature. @huntercollege.bsky.social

Happy fall semester to all those who celebrate. 🍁🍂🍃

Summer Nights. NY, NY.

Happy fall semester to all those who celebrate. 🍁🍂🍃

Summer Nights. NY, NY.

Dark Laboratory by @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social is EVERYTHING I need rn #rx

Dark Lab 🧪 retreat! NYC is our living laboratory. 🏕️

Dark Lab 🧪 retreat! NYC is our living laboratory. 🏕️

I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.

Excellent readings! Yes, Afro-Caribbean literature is a necessity that must be taught at every university!

Syllabus uploading! I love to teach Afro-Caribbean literature! Literature, in part, radically responds to the supposed objectivity of History @huntercollege.bsky.social Hence in my class we will also tune to Black poetics, including dancehall, for a philosophy of history itself. 🎶💿

It says a lot about the political imagination of academia that one of the more common proposals for fixing publish-or-perish culture is to limit the number of articles we can publish each year.

Learn more about my media lab @huntercollege.bsky.social from this Art21 write-up

It takes quite a bit to shock me these days, given where I work, but WTAF? Universities have responsibilities of stewardship--and universities like Chicago have duties toward a wider world & not just the North American context. This is an astonishing disavowal of those duties. I feel ill.

Learn more about my media lab @huntercollege.bsky.social from this Art21 write-up

On every level, what Israel is doing in Gaza is unconscionable, and people of conscience must say so.

The word community no longer has any meaning — every formation or grouping of people does not constitute a community.

5 yrs ago - 287k likes “I finished my PhD @26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when ur done. Enjoy life!”

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

A professor had a $2.4 million grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

Spoke about my new book @ New York Public Library!

“As a labor leader, it is our responsibility to be the shield of the working class. An injury to one is an injury to all and that doesn’t exclude Palestinians." Labor organizer Chris Smalls explains why he decided to join the Handala in an attempt to deliver aid to Gaza.

The Legionnaire's Disease cluster in Central Harlem has now grown to 58 cases. 21 hospitalized. Tragically there has been a 2nd death. If you live or work in zip codes 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 or 10039 and you develop flu-like symptoms, contact a health care provider immediately.

My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

Start em young! Dragon Baby devouring Césaire’s Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal

What if the news media agreed to stop calling these Ivy League deals “settlements” and just said, you know, “Cornell has agreed to pay $100 million in extortion money.”