Join us on 11/12 for a lecture by Dr. Tiffany Bailey our postdoctoral fellow in Black Feminist Studies

Writing this “welcome letter” to AY 2025-26 hit so different this year. cssh.northeastern.edu/africana/dir...

dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/a... @policingblack.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social "Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."

“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)

Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...

Day 1 of #1000wordsaday writing challenge felt so good. And went by faster thank expected! #amwriting #proflife #book4

How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Octavia Butler’s mother gave her the gift of a typewriter for her 10th birthday. Toni Cade Bambara’s mother swept around her and did not disturb her as she created on the kitchen floor. As a mother their actions convicted me. What am I doing to nurture Black girl genius?

I’ve spent the past two days thinking and writing in community with a wonderful group of people at @radcliffe.institute for a seminar on. The Environmental Writer-Activist. So grateful for the time to sit with thoughts and good people.

“Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“From what I’ve read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.” Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the final book on my syllabus for Black Women Lead. I can’t wait to hear how students are processing this novel today and what it has to teach us about leadership.

Happy book birthday! Congratulations! This is a big day! I love connecting with authors on launch day. And the title looks great. Just bought a copy. And look at you #1 in new release! 🙌📙🎉

Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus

Even though I teach the ways that power functions to make this less clear to people it still majes my head hurt that people don't seem to get this.

#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.” —Marie Vieux-Chauvet Happy Women’s Day!

#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.” -Mayor Michelle Wu @mayorwu.boston.gov

#WomensHistoryMonth Day 6. "I’m an African feminist who believes deeply in the power of art and artistic expression in changing the world. My feminist work has largely been centered on pan-African, feminist and environmental activism." -Nana Akosua Hanson

#WomensHistoryMonth Day 5 "My life journey, my numerous personal experiences, and my political and ideological stance have led me to understand that, as a black woman, I need power in all its manifestations and within all the spaces I occupy." --Pascale Solages @PascaleSolages

#WomensHistoryMonth2025 Day 3. “Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.” -Fannie Lou Hamer

#WomensHistoryMonth 2025 Day 2. “Feminism is for everybody.” —bell hooks

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Coming out of a bit of a news break whilst in L.A. and this is quite the hard re-entry: the president of Ukraine being lectured like a child by the U.S. president and vice president who want to steal his natural resources and hand chunks of his country to Putin. I have never been so embarrassed.

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 28. “Those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.” —Ayanna Pressley

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 27. “Creating is absolute power. And we all create. I use my art to hopefully create a better reality.” -Fabiola Jean-Louis

#BlackHistoryMonth Da 26. "The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members, a heart of grace, and a soul generated by love." -Coretta Scott King

Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 25. “Hope is not something that one often associates with Haiti. An anthropologist and critic representations of the island, I have often questioned narratives that reduce Haiti to simple categories and in the process dehumanize Haitians.” —Gina Athéna Ulysse

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 24. Alice Walker via Deborah McDowell

#BlackHistoryMonth Day 23. “In the midst of a hostile society, a society that wants our labor or our death, we live in pursuit of justice, in pursuit of freedom, and longing for a bit of grace.” —Farah Jasmine Griffin (the birthday queen)

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 22 “Hope is a discipline.” —Mariame Kaba

Together with 280+ pro-democracy organizations representing millions of people, we established a multimillion-dollar war chest that will allow us to take legal action, represent clients pro bono, and provide resources to people and communities harmed by the second Trump administration.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear.” —Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 20. "I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth." -Miriam Makeba

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 19. “There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.” —Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Figure out what organizing means to you and do it. If you’re not sure how to think about that question, here’s a book to start with, not because it has all the answers but because it will help you think about your answers: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

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#BlackHistoryMonth Day 18. “But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.” —Ama Ata Aidoo

#BlackHistoryMonth2025 Day 17. "We believe that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else's but because of our need as human persons for autonomy.”

As always, a stellar episode of #undistracted My takeaway:Community.Community.Community. After quitting Meta, I have to do the texting, calling, and being with ppl IRL. It's def harder than relying on socials, but so worth it All the best to you and your growing fam, @mspackyetti.bsky.social

Join me, Dr. Sherrie-Ann Burnett–Bowie, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, and @morra.bsky.social in Boston on March 4 for a WBUR event about menopause. RSVP here: www.wbur.org/events/99583...

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#BlackHistoryMonth Day 16 “Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.” —Gloria Naylor