Local 6741 is in the BlueSky house! We are an @aaup.bsky.social & @aft.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter & at-large members of AAUP. Follow us for news on & organizing resources for faculty in pre-majority union contexts. Check out our website too! local6741.org

Most certainly ~ the course is called "Collective Genius: Black Music Collectives from AACM to Odd Future" 😊!!

hi! never on here so this may go into the void, but o' well. teaching a new class in the fall on Black music collectives -- share your favorites please!!

some of us begged the space science community to stop normalizing Musk to stop saying “but the SpaceX engineers do really good work and it’s not all about him” I hope the people who said we were histrionic do some introspection

Whew since having a kiddo, I've been feeling so far away from the stage ~ grateful to be back!! thank you @emfedex.bsky.social 💓

So thrilled to hear from @sammusmusic.net @adcarson.bsky.social @catappstrophic.bsky.social and Akua Naru talk about being hip hop artists/professors at #PopCon2025. My soul is full.

ArticulatedTexTiles the art show is up at TrunkSpace in Phoenix AZ until the end of the month It’s my first art show, an accumulation of my favorite pieces since I started working with felt full time in July of 2020 Here are the 4 main walls

on a different note, i cannot recommend this conversation between KIESE LAYMON & @chanda.bsky.social highly enough! i listened to it twice today, once while walking in the Blackest street in my neighbourhood. now i'm revising Long Division (2021 ed.) please read this convo, especially #Blacksky

shout out to all my junior faculty colleagues not waiting until the "right time" to declare that right is right and wrong is wrong; and hugs to the junior + contingent faculty, who understandably do not feel they are in a position to do so out of fear of non-renewal, deportation, retaliation. etc.

Today is Carl Sagan's birthday. Like many of my colleagues and friends, Sagan had a profound influence on me. Several years ago I asked @universetoday readers to share their favorite Sagan quotes, and it still is a great read: www.universetoday.com/90823/carl-s...

Rockstar Games plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game, GTA 6, as early as this week

Lmao steal the book for my damn self duh 👀💦

Prints for Palestine!! Put in a bid: printsforpalestine.com

Beyond proud of this effort ❤️‍🔥 lithub.com/we-need-more...

more accurate data about my height/weight/etc is here

Starting a new song right before a meeting knowing that I have a propensity to abandon any and all obligations in order to finish it the second I catch a vibe is definitely an extreme sport

"Toyota is raising the wages of its factory workers — all of them non-unionized — after the UAW strikes at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis culminated in pay hikes for unionized employees." www.axios.com/2023/10/31/t...

ah, halloween totally overshadowed this other beloved annual tradition

BREAKING: The UAW has won a tentative agreement with GM. Six weeks ago the union launched a historic and creative strike. These disciplined walkouts and years of organizing have now led to huge tentative agreements covering 150,000 workers at all of America’s Big 3 automakers.

Wait what is it?? I thought it was "sense" but said like a snake lol

Ahhhh

they melted down the Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee and the video goes so fucking hard lmao www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

tiny bit of nice news, i have a super short essay in a new book all about crying w/ much better contributions from writers like hanif abdurraqib, jia tolentino + phoebe bridgers -- see mom, i told you my endless weeping would get me somewhere! out 11/14 - www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sad-Ha...

a new music video called falling loud. youtu.be/cWi8-wEzPGk?...

during my residency at the library of congress, i came across a show that hasn’t been written about in 2 decades. that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com

Poet and Novelist Heba Abu Nada, 32, Reported Dead in Israeli Bombardment arablit.org/2023/10/20/p... via @arablit.bsky.social

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

in case you were wondering 🙃 www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

at least 500 people killed in the Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza today, with 3000 deaths in Gaza since the bombing began, news still coming in: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

pro-Palestinian posts are being quashed by Instagram and Facebook, causing users to move to other networks to support civilians in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/w...

officially laid off, after two weeks of limbo where i suspected that would be happening but had no confirmation. if anyone is looking for a talented, professional, and dedicated editor and culture writer, i’m officially on the market

bandcamp is a pillar of the independent music scene. the ripple effects of epic's mishandling of the company will be felt by musicians and other artists for years www.gamedeveloper.com/business/epi...

The state of Georgia is refusing to release basic evidence tied to the police shooting and killing of an activist protesting “Cop City”: “I have not heard of another case like this”

'Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.' www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/b...

“MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday amid America’s wave of sympathy for Israeli terror victims.” Incredibly fucked up. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

War: never not wonderful for business.

The occupation is an intolerable crime, and resistance to it is a fundamental right, and murdering civilians is wrong, and collective punishment of an entrapped population is immoral. We live in a world of ands, not ors.

'hush' is a spell.

i didn't name the grammies specifically, but i wrote about where this all was headed in 2022 and here we are: www.publicbooks.org/ai-rap-synth... it's almost like black women in/around tech always happen to be prescient AF

Just worked up the nerve to finally read through my course evals with my therapist on the line and 10/10 would recommend ~

Taylor Weik on "the islands’ legacy of US occupation and how tourism has effectively created two Hawaiis: the rightful home of a historically colonized and continuously exploited people, and the year-round paradise for visitors who expect these same people to welcome them with smiles and aloha."

Worth preordering https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294615/

Just responded to an email a year late, but i'm comforted when I remember the four-years-late email response I got from someone that just said "thanks."

another triumph of ghetto engineering this friday. a pre save will save lives orcd.co/xo8y8p5