Some 20 yrs ago, I came to United States at the age of nine straight out of a refugee camp in Benin. I'd been a refugee since I was two-years-old and I spoke no English and had no formal education. Today, I am now officially a Yale-trained Ph.D. with a prize-winning dissertation.

RT @NC_Renic: The panel: Inclusion and Diversity in the Workplace . The panelists:

RT @redheadranting: You know what I miss? Turning on something and having it just work. No registering on another device. No signing into a….

Doing oral histories & having to listen back to them for several hours over several years forced me to get real comfortable with my own voice. It was excruciating at first🥹 🤣.

I tried to those swim caps that are advertised to black women. They don’t work for me.

I’ll add that, honestly, the hardest part of this process was accepting that my braids will get ruined before their time. 😅 Once I embraced that reality it became much much easier. I even stopped braiding for a while just to focus on swimming.

I learned how to swim recently and it's one of the best things I've ever done for myself. Being comfortable in water is one the best feelings ever!.

RT @DanMKervick: I’m begging younger people not to make the same mistake we did a couple of decades ago. You will never win a debate with p….

It'll be a fashion show grounded in a historical analysis of African women's central position in global commerce. It'll be a material analysis of the politics of pleasure as experienced/expressed through African women's tailoring and adornment practices.

Random musings that motivate me to keep writing: at my future book launch I envision a fashion show that showcases pieces made of the textiles I write about in my book. As the "model" walks down the runway, I'll read what I wrote in the book about the history of the textile print.

Social media companies should be compelled by law to identify and alert users to when they are seeing AI generated imagery. It's irresponsible to let these synthetic images proliferate unchecked.

This is a very fascinating & tragic case. I can’t seem to find any in-depth gender analysis of this but it reminds me of Ifi Amadiumes’ “Male daughters, female husbands”. Would love to teach this in my African woman’s history course.

The disproportionate labor + care expectations placed on me as an eldest daughter.

RT @Wa_Mumbiz: Back in my primary school, the top KCPE student always got a mountain bike. 😹 Results came, it was a tie between my friend a….

RT @NC_Renic: No one told me adulthood would require this much multi-factor authentication.

This is a fascinating analysis of the racial, class, and technological dimensions of body modification procedures in Nigeria: "people are altering their bodies to become digitally legible.".

RT @safiyaaaay: the brilliant Maxamed Abumaye's book drops next week 🔥

RT @ysabdullahi: I just wrapped up an inspiring week at the @UnivofGh attending the ‘West African Women in Transregional History’ conferenc….

This case helped inspire the course I'm teaching in the fall on the history of photography.

RT @marthasjones_: I wrote about discovering my grandmother’s hair in Harvard’s Peabody Museum in The Trouble of Color. It still haunts me.….

RT @wunpini_fm: Africans lost nearly $70M to denied visa applications to Europe in 2024.