Where is the halftime show link? I need to rewatch it a few times. Like stat!

Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

The family chat is going awf after the halftime show. I’m literally screaming to my sister in creole about our flag on television! The voice note is quite unintelligible at this point.

I’m honestly still in shock by his performance. So much home in it. So many touch points. Down to the dominoes and the cane, and the ice cones, & all of it really. I think I’m actually speechless. I gotta watch it a few more times. Fabulous job, Benito!

Let’s go Benito 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Mi never see a Guyana 🇬🇾 flag on national, American television before! But, for Benito. He did that and so much more! Good for him! Flawless performance, visuals, & vibes. The details were impeccable.

Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1. www.peer-center.org/research/sum...

February goals: my first art exhibit of 2026 (opens tomorrow), & loads of academic writing & research!

It's week 3 of classes, & our MA /doc students are rising to the occasion. I'm pleased with how they are engaging in my courses & their willingness to put in the effort. It's been another week of enriching classroom experiences for both me & them. I hope I didn't jinx myself by saying this out loud.

I love watching people paint late at night, live on TikTok. It’s so calming, other than painting my own pieces.

Working through a R&R that I’m very excited about!

I can’t believe it’s only January 7th & I’m back in the classroom already. My institution has been back since Monday.

First week back at the office & my new custom desk chair has arrived for me to sit in it for the first time. It’s sooooo much better than the last janky, passed down chair.

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Still here tweaking last items for my syllabus. It’s getting wild now!

As someone with family remaining in South America, (Guyana & Suriname) this situation is hitting me very complex. There’s so many normals & not-normals when you’re from outside of the U.S. & it doesn’t always make sense what countrymen want vs non countrymen want.

BREAKING: Explosions have been heard and smoke is rising over the Venezuelan capital, according to Al Jazeera correspondent, as tensions with the US spiral. Parts of the city’s south, near a major military base, have reportedly lost power aje.io/pv5l3e

Each semester, my syllabi get tweaked. I’m using lessons learned from past me, to prevent future me or my students from being in a pickle. I’m hoping this is meeting everyone’s needs.

Whereas we seriously considered going home for Xmas break, it was a phenomenal choice to stay home and make our own holiday traditions. What fun we’ve been having.

Reading for pleasure and personal enjoyment this break. It’s phenomenal & I need to stick to my reading plans throughout the year, rather than on/off.

This break includes lots of sketching, reading, and painting. Poor drawing and lots of Guyanese garlic pork. 😊😊😊

Grateful for my gifts this Christmas! They were incredibly thoughtful. I’m always happy to receive art focused gifts.

I’m having the best Boxing Day!

This Christmas doesn’t quite feel like Xmas, but nonetheless, I’m making the traditional Guyanese Christmas menu. I’m proud of myself, even though I had to call my sisters a few times for recipe assistance. I don’t live home (GT or NYC) anymore so, if I want Guyanese meals, I’ll have to make them.

LFG!!!!! Hang that banner, baby! As Brunson said, this win helps us get to the next big championship. 💙🧡💙🧡 #NYKnicks

I remember the first news of school shootings (college & HS), back when I too, was a youth. I didn’t know I’d be a college professor as an adult. But it’s not lost on me that so much remains the same, even though some of us grew up in this phenomenon & now work in this phenomenon.

Goooooo, Knicks! NBA Cup finals, baby! Settling in for the second game of the matchup tonight with the west coast. Semi finalists.

Internally screaming and loudly clapping for all students at December commencement this morning. I dislike when some students walk across the stage to silence. It’s a big accomplishment for everyone! And I will clap!

My dear husband & I stepped out for errands before snowfall & the young dude ringing us up sheepishly & authentically asked if I was from NY. I was wearing a Knicks cap & I told him yes, then once he learned where my husband was from, he started asking about the Wire tv show. This was the most

In an interview with The New York Times, the director Ryan Coogler shared what he’s thinking of post-“Sinners,” how the loss of Chadwick Boseman affected him and why he turned down the invitation to join the academy.

In the newest installment of Working Better, I explore faculty motivation in what could be considered one of the most uniquely demotivating moments in the recent history of higher ed. www.chronicle.com/article/facu...

My classes for Fall 2025 wrap up today. It has been a whirlwind semester filled with doing, thinking, learning, and creating. This is just my experience; I haven’t even mentioned our students yet. Year two on the tenure track has been incredibly busy. While there are still many details to finalize

okay, I have to wonder how many of the people declaring that disability accommodations have gone "too far": 1. are disabled. 2. went through the process themselves. 3. work in higher ed at all. 4. read ANY critical disability studies work at all? Like, any?

Exciting to see that the Caribbean Methodologies scholars group have one of my publications (the Liming one) up as amplifying Caribbean research methodology! Check out their offerings! www.caribbeanmethodology.org/general-4

For the love of everything good in the world, playing semantic ping pong in email with certain folks almost feels like certain people at work enjoy misunderstanding faculty. Like damn, we all have our own work to do and some folks relish in making it harder for you to do yours.

December so wild in my house. We have our elopement anniversary, Husband’s birthday, & Christmas. Nothing but money going out the door 🙃🙃 all great times to celebrate but IJS.

I am literally putting some pieces to my almost Xmas day born husband’s special day and this darn Midwest weather got me shook. Ugh. 😩 like this weather so wild.

“When disability, poverty & systemic neglect make life unbearable, that is not ‘autonomy’ — it is abandonment.” CRDJ's MAiD report shows that disabled people—especially those who are poor, Indigenous, or people of color—are offered help to die more readily than help to live. [2/3]

For the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, I spoke with advocates about how this law is crucial–and the ways in which disability education can be made better as its under attack from the Trump administration at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sometimes, you take a sigh when you’re revising IRB & you go right back in and do what you have to do. It’s its own kind of 😩😩😩.

We were up late into this morning, watching tv shows and relaxing after cooking all literal day. I’m incredibly grateful for the Thanksgiving we had.

We are doing a full American thanksgiving tomorrow and a more Caribbean themed Christmas spread.

I’m reading a publication that’s so bloody exciting. Love that for me!

Jimmy Cliff, who died on Monday at 81, was a giant of Jamaican music. Here's a sampling of his greatest work. nyti.ms/4rjAczN

I’m searching for this article and can’t locate it. I’m hoping someone in my community has access to this & can share it with me. “Multi-Sensory Methods: Toward a Crip Methodology in Fashion Studies” (2024).

Heated seats and heated steering wheel are the best inventions ever.

I’ve had the worst headache since arriving in Denver. I’m so looking forward to going home and the headache going away. Nonetheless, it was a great conference experience!