Nessette Falu
@Nfalu
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Black queer feminist. Candomble life. Reproductive Justice. Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austin. Physician Assistant. #1908
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This is the title and cover of my book. I am deeply grateful to Duke University Press for retaining my title and approving the artwork of Ani Ganzala, a Brazilian Black queer artist from Bahia.
@kwissoker
@DukePress
@AniGanzala
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I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the badass African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS) at UT Austin in Fall 2022 for a Black queer studies position. And, I am deeply grateful for the support of the UCF faculty & leadership. Many of you will be missed.
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After my class today, I walked with students to the peaceful demonstration and teach in. We were met with this and state troopers on horses.
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I received this lovely postcard with a 30% discount code to preorder my book from
@DukePress
website. The release date is September 15, 2023. I plan to make a list of readings to complement teaching the book.
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It's Coming To Us Soon!
@DukePress
Check out our new books in September, including "Unseen Flesh" by Nessette Falu
@Nfalu
.
#AnthroTwitter
#LatinAmericanStudies
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At UT Austin, I will be formalizing my reproductive justice lab centering on Black queer reproductive matters. Also teaching and designing Black queer studies classes in medicine, reproduction, religion, and more
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Feels good to hold and read it. May my mother Oxum and all the orishas and God protect and guide this journey. Gratitude.
Erasing judgement.
Birthday celebrations.
Virgo season.
@DukePress
Artwork by
@AniGanzala
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I am disturbed by
@UTAustin
actions to fire 60 people when they told us last year that nobody would lose their jobs if they worked with DEI. That they would be moved into new roles for the restructure. People were moved into new roles. Then suddenly let go suddenly. 60 people.
The University of Texas at Austin has reportedly laid off dozens of employees who used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs
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I am floored after reading the first book review of my book, nonetheless by a Brazilian faculty at the University Federal of Lavras in Brazil who's in a Department of Public Administration. Just in time for my tenure dossier this summer! Thank you
@ERSjournal
@thiagosimm
@tandfhss
@HumboldtUni
@Nfalu
shows how black
#lesbians
take their destiny into their own hands, carrying out their
#freedom
and well-being, even in a society that
#devalues
and
#dehumanises
them in various ways
Read Simim's review here:
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So this happened today! My book introduction chapter is published and available to read or download on the Duke University Press website! Please share your thoughts with me!
Duke University Press - Unseen Flesh
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I am pleased to share these introductory posts of my lab created by my three amazing undergraduate research assistants! Meet the team post to follow.
It has been a labor of love since October to develop this lab with my undergraduate research assistants under
@IUPRA
. We look forward to introducing the projects we are working on, including medical illustration for Black queer reproductive justice. A website is soon to follow!
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The cut-off art will actually wrap around the spine of the book. It brings me deep joy to have Ani's artwork on the cover of my book about Brazilian Black queer women in Bahia. Release date: September 15, 2023.
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I'm honored to be featured as a Black Women's Studies book for BHM by the Black Women's Studies Association
@blkwomenstudies
! Thank you!
Everyday this month, we are featuring a different Black Women’s Studies book to celebrate
#BHM
! Today’s
#28DaysofBWS
text is Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth Making in Brazil by
@Nfalu
. Order your copy at !
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I gave my first teach in on abolition medicine to student demonstrators out in public. Impromptu so I was nervous.Their faces gave me courage to be my fullest self as a Teacher. I was honored to be in their presence and hold their attention. After I started talking, felt natural
UN experts deeply concerned over ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza. The term refers to the systemic obliteration of education through the arrest, detention or killing of teachers, students and staff, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.
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Excited to host the Brazilian artist and friend who created the art on my book cover. They are delivering a lecture to graduate students followed by a painting session. Ani Ganzala is passing through the U.S. making their visit to Austin possible! What a blessing.
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I am so excited to finally launch with my team Gxnecologx Justice Lab website!! Please check it out and circulate it! Labor of love.
We are excited to finally launch our Gxnecologx Justice Lab website! It has been a year-long labor of love. Much gratitude to my team, Denise Cooper (website designer) and Hillary Wilson (medical illustrator).
@IUPRA
@Warfield_UT
@BlackStudiesUT
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So proud of the faculty today at UT who organized and led a rally with students. The chats for President Jay Hartzel to resign were heartfelt. We have no faith in him.
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Book marketing questionnaire submitted to the press! Getting real. Stay tuned.
@DukePress
@kwissoker
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My AKA line sister
@Stefateaser
sent me a surprise today!! Book earrings!!! I burst out in joy!! Love you so much for knowing that I’m nerdy enough to love these so much!!! And I will be rocking them! 💚💕💚💕
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I am very excited to be accepted with
@allgoqpoc
into a one-year-long program called Community-Academic Partnerships for Health Equity Program sponsored by the Dell Medical School and Population Health at UT Austin. Look forward to community-based research on reproductive justice
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Statement from concerned faculty at UT. This is Jim Crow for the 21st century. UT gave no space for the trauma they caused students with dismantling their programs. Then today treated like cattle. Shame on you!
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Grateful to
@Reighangillam
for the invitation and work of interviewing me about the book for New Books Network. Feel free to use it for classroom teaching!
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Excited to share this interview about my book by Roberto Sirvent for the Black Agenda Report's Book Forum!
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I am honored to be named by
@LambdaLiterary
and to join all the amazing LGBTQIA+ books on this list!! Deeply grateful.
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The world doesn’t need to understand or believe how the Orishas protect us. As a Candomble initiated member, my faith guides me more than ever and my Orisha protects me. It’s in the best interest of the world to actually believed in the capacity of ancestral power. Not a joke.
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This is happening today, Tue 2/21. It was also so a delight to speak with Dr. Chelsey Carter's class
@AudreTaughtMe2
with MPH students last night about my book and the work. Truly gives me hope toward justice work by a new generation in the public health field.
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Really looking forward to my talk at Wesleyan University on Wed 2/21! What a cute flyer!
@MargotDWeiss
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I'm honored to give a book talk at Edmond W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia U on October 18th, 2pm EST. I'll discuss the Black queer reproductive medical illustrations from my
@gxnecologx
Justice Lab.
@EDixonRoman
@iumetccolumbia
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I am so excited to finally launch with my team Gxnecologx Justice Lab website!! Please check it out and circulate it! Labor of love.
We are excited to finally launch our Gxnecologx Justice Lab website! It has been a year-long labor of love. Much gratitude to my team, Denise Cooper (website designer) and Hillary Wilson (medical illustrator).
@IUPRA
@Warfield_UT
@BlackStudiesUT
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Showtime! I feel the love at Teachers College! It’s an exciting moment to see my book in the world. Flyer attached.
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I needed a minute to recharge and get back on the moving train this week.
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Urvashi Vaid. You are so loved. We will continue the work in your name and honor. Thank you for your legacy, presence, and wisdom.
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I am looking forward to returning to my alma mater to discuss my book!
CSWGS is pleased to co-host a public lecture with
@RiceAnthro
:
“Black Queer Worth Making and Gynecology in Brazil” by
@Nfalu
, author of Unseen Flesh
This talk is free and open to the public; advance registration requested.
Register here!:
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@TheOpEdProject
I am excited to be a Public Voices Fellow this year. UT Austin participates in this national year-long program that mentors and trains academics to write and speak for a public platform. We write two pieces by next May. Looking forward to a year of much growth.
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One of my undergraduate students registered me to vote here in Texas after class. She volunteers in a UT program fighting voter suppression and keeps the forms on her. Apparently Texas makes it very challenging (always has) for new residents to register to vote. What a blessing.
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Most, if not all, of the children killed in Uvalde are likely Latinx/Hispanic. Politicians pro-gun will FAKE care
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Hate this.
Cornell University has temporary suspended me alongside 3 other students/grad workers. They have deliberately targeted students with precarious positions such as visa status. They have given me a grace period but I am no longer permitted on campus. I know they have done this as a
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Evidence.
Greetings from Berkeley’s encampment where students & faculty are holding classes, reading, sharing food & resources and peacefully abiding by shared community made agreements. 🍉❤️this is what happens when you don’t call the cops.
#Berkeley
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Protect our academic freedom! Join us today. See flyer
Join us today at 2pm - Texas folks please share with all of your networks. Our right to teach about race, our DEI programs and tenure are all being threatened by the TX gov. Protect academic freedom!!
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Come on with Brittney Griner. The swapping of these bodies across global borders is problematic on many levels but so is mass incarceration. We need Griner home.
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I am a Black Studies faculty at UT Austin and I stand with Black Studies faculty at Columbia.
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Congratulations to my dear colleague
@MoniAJimenez
!!
Especially in the midst of turmoil we must find our joy. It has been a season of sadness and chaos but today I'm celebrating the arrival of this box and the many years of work it represents.
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After I meet with my undergraduate research assistants all POC queer to develop my Black queer reproductive justice lab each Monday, I am exhilarated with energy. It's healing. Good work. Website and social media to be released by end of the year I hope.
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I feel a lot of vulnerability thinking about prospective buyers walking through my house without me there. Will definitely sage before and after. And I hid all my expensive pens. 😂
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Thank you Kevin! I am just really thrilled and over the moon to join you and the department to do this work. A perfect time for this reproductive justice work
@BlackStudiesUT
@IUPRA
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Happy Mother’s Day
As we continue to Grapple with the decisions the Supreme Court aims to make in regards to the bodies of those with a uterus. We would like to take time to thank the mothers, aunts, guardians and ancestors that continue to guide us.
#citeblackwomen
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😂😂 this made me laugh. If we can’t peacefully protest, might as well scream
Students at
@Columbia
doing a midnight primal scream—a Columbia tradition—outside of President Shafik’s mansion. You’d think that hospitalizing her own students would make it difficult to sleep at night. Since she’s heartless, students decided to give her a wake up call instead.
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I’m glad for the leak. We need to get ready. Mind body soul action
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Excited to introduce my lab’s work on design for health solutions and reproductive justice.
Introducing our Storytelling in Medicine Series: exploring the intersection of reproductive health and diverse identities, we're shedding light on confronting challenges like chest cancer within the Black queer community.
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@TristanTaormino
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@KawikaGuillermo
@guszeineddine
@EdwardCahill10
@bpladek
@hilaryzaid
@CheskaFranny
@joveest
@astradisastra
@CookieWoolner
@BlackLawrence
@LambdaLiterary
OMG!!! Thank you for sharing this!! And thank you
@LambdaLiterary
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I’m so sick and tired of the current White House administration acting like Pro-Palestine protestors are the problem. WH on being anti-racist my ass. What a fucking mess for the elections.
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I would quit too.
I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence
#ColumbiaUniversity
which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..
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NYC folks! Please join us and circulate this announcement for a book conversation organized by
@GCCenterWomen
at the Graduate Center, CUNY
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Pls donate. Many innocent students arrested for no damn reason but existing in the world
Over 50 arrests of peaceful protesters. Please share and donate.
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Thank you
@snehalalu
for joining with Nirel Jones Mitchell my undergrad abolition medicine class to share all your work and wisdom and experiences about abolition, medicine, community organizing, and more. My students are transformed. The world is a better place with you in it.
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Conservatives claim to protect the lives of innocent babies in the womb yet can't protect living innocent children from gun violence, maternal mortality, prematurity, environmental violence, child abuse, sexual violence, inadequate education systems, poverty, food hunger...
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Please join us and circulate this announcement for a book reading and conversation organized by
@GCCenterWomen
!!
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Vivência Negra: Black Lesbians Affective Experiences in Brazilian Gynecology
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Weight watchers is not what it used to be. Very interactive, informative with its own social media. I love tracking things. It’s the missing equation to my consistency. I’m in! Also trying Noom for a week.
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Wtf! The woman looks like she’s just passing through. At my age, if you threw me on the ground like that, my spine may fracture. Just saying.
When the ECON professors are getting wrestled to the ground you know we've really hit a turning point...
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They can’t be serious with this bullshit at Rikers. But they are.
lol mayor adams getting baptized by reverend al sharpton at rikers is nasty work. book of revelations shit. a seal has just been broken and they’re raising their trumpets as we speak
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For my next book, I will be even more selfish with my citation politics. I’ve grown so much into my own citation politics practice that for sure there will be no dead white men in my next book, to start. I’m over it.
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Congratulations to
@profsassy
and
@BethaniaGomes9
for this amazing translation of Beatriz Nascimento’s work, legacy and more.
🚨🚨🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!🚨🚨🚨
BEATRIZ NASCIMENTO HAS BEEN TRANSLATED (
@profsassy
,
@BethaniaGomes9
,
@AOJDavies
) INTO ENGLISH!!!!! DROPPING THIS FALL,
@PrincetonUPress
!!!!! THIS IS MASSIVE!!!!
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Book copy edits submitted back to the press! Hard lesson learned: mark or highlight or flag by any means necessary the page of all the books or articles you cite in case you miss putting the page number or the correct page number on your draft.
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The shooting in Buffalo is too much to take in. Praying for families and the wounded.
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I’m holding medical books from PA school and practice like trophies. Bate’s physical examination is like 20 yo. Neurosurgery was my first PA job. First true encounter with hyper masculinity, whiteness in medicine. I’ll keep my books. How many Black women practice neurosurgery?
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@fumikochino
@DrSadhanaJ
@kwissoker
@DukePress
@AniGanzala
OMG! I need to stay in touch! I will be focusing on reproductive cancers too. In fact, I am developing in my lab medical illustrative infographics with an artist on breast cancer for Black queer folks.
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Congratulations
@profsassy
!!!!!
Came home from a long day to find this on my porch!! Y’all I’m elated!! FIVE YEARS OF HARD WORK and it’s finally here!! 🎉🎉🎉. The Dialectic is in the Sea. Thank you
@BethaniaGomes9
@AOJDavies
@PrincetonUPress
!! I’m crying over here 😭😭
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Racist abusing power once again in the classroom. Training is not enough. She’s damn aware of what she’s doing flexing her whiteness and traumatizing students
F*ck training. Fire her. She abused this child. This is violence. There is never a situation where it is acceptable for ppl racialized as non-Black to use this word. Not even reading it in a book. Period.
Teacher Caught On Video Saying N-Word
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Boxed 200 books for donation. I plan to round up another 100. I will still have way too many left. It is freeing to detach from books not written by Black and other people of color scholars or books that I plan to never touch again. Soul cleansing.
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Meet the team for my lab!
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The platform about right to privacy will not get us anywhere. Freedom and life and death are threatened in a country that cares nothing about maternal health outcomes for many populations.
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NYC and tri-state folks, please join us and also share with your colleagues and students!
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This country moved from one shooting massacre to another... Praying for families in Uvalde, TX
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@RyanCecilJobson
@kaneeshaparsard
@rastascholar
@KingstonJancro
@SaideSingh
I am just seeing this. Were you at CSA? Mad I didn’t see you…
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This is a great opportunity to receive mentoring and support while building together for social justice. It is a cohort of 5 teams and will be nice to learn from other academics doing the same community-building with other organizations.
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@bettinajudd
@kwissoker
@DukePress
@AniGanzala
Thanks sis! Btw, I bought Feelin. Pairing our books is good for teaching. 😍
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@profsassy
@deadlinedd
@nhannahjones
@UTAustin
@citeblackwomen
@drkeishakhan
@KiaLCaldwell
@tpaschel
@EricaLWilliams7
@MuseWendi
@biasescholar
Thank you for the shout out. Also look up Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History by Lamonte Aidoo, 2018.
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This.
@AkhilGuptaUCLA
Mindless land acknowledgments (left) taking no responsibility vs truth telling one (right)
#2021AAABaltimore
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