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Today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She did so much in this world. My favorite lesson was her speech after a tornado had destroyed the majority black town Inverness. She said the Delta had been a disaster zone since slavery. I will never forget that…she always spoke her truth.
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Y'ALL, was listening to a oral history where Arnette Davis was like Black sharecroppers relied on instincts and nature to survive...why people laugh at using an ax to redirect a storm, his house has been in the same spot for 60 years, with many tornadoes, & it remained unscathed!
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I was like okay Mr. Davis you better tell us about Black sustainability practices like hanging jars with water on trees to act as a natural insecticide, and how Black cultural traditions and cosmologies WORK!!!! And that yes you could be in relations with tornadoes too!
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At the
#BlackEnvironmentalism
conference at Yale. I'm learning so much about the African epistemologies and criticism of environmentalism as a colonial project. I wish African Studies wasn't separate from Black Studies at my grad school, my work would have benefited greatly.
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My goal for the year is to come from a place of abundance. This has meant slowness over urgency. Collaboration over competition. Celebration over comparison. This was not my training in academia, so I'm grateful for the communities I'm in that teach me otherwise worlds. 1/2
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Won a 5000.00 grant to help bring some amazing Afro Brazilian scholars & activists to NYC to show them a good time! Which includes a writing retreat at the botanical gardens & first Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. We also are doing other amazing panels, stay tuned!!!
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Wanted to follow up on my Black Ecologies reading list thread sharing some of the super stars I read/will read see a shortened version of my journey this Fall below ⬇️
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Fannie Lou Hamer meant when she said “nobody’s free until everybody’s free!” Its a demand not a chant. June Jordan had a deep & brutal rift with comrades over Palestine, Jordan’s steadfastness became a model on to stay on the freedom side, but also forgiveness and healing ⬇️ 1/6
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Happy to announce that next year I’ll be a Warren Center fellow working with a cohort of scholars on Alternative Ecologies!!! Thank you
@JTRoane
for your constant mentorship! And to have the honor to finally work with my life aspiration
@TiyaMilesTAM
😭
#doingitforFannieLouHamer
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I was invited to give a talk at a rich school, who wanted me to pay for my travel & hotel & they would reimburse me later. I said no & called it unethical. They just alerted me that they changed this policy going forward! I don’t just speak up for me but for others as well! 👇🏿
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I am super excited to be able to share the 2nd Global Black Geographies Conference. The 1st conference took place in Brazil. For the 2nd conf we have the honor of bringing in Afro- Brazilian activists, abolitionists, & feminists to Rutgers. It is going to be a MOVEMENT. Pull up!
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@lilamoebabe
I would love to talk more about this, because the farmers cannot trace where it comes from, but I suspect it comes from Choctaw spiritual leaders, and I am happy to share the interview if you DM me!
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Day 2: & I run into this beauty!
@jmjafrx
was my first BW prof in college & she was the first person to be like you're interested in enslaved women's gardens, bump the scant sources, this is the project for you T! I am because of who paved the way for me.
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PHinished!!!! Thanks to all my framily for being there! And to the best advisor ever
@cfeimster
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As I’m on a healing journey when it comes to writing, I find myself re-reading three tings. Octavia Butler’s piece on writing as habit, on reading and writing daily as praxis. Ursula Le Guin’s writing schedule.
@KieseLaymon
“We’re not good enough..” ⬇️
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Happy to announce that the dream team won a Spencer Foundation vision grant to advance climate equity ed across the Black South! Thanks to
@JTRoane
for encouraging me to be the PI. & for Justin Hosbey, Esme Murdock,
@RogueChieftan
&
@daniellepurifoy
for getting on the bus with us
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The # of students and faculty sharing how they have been isolated for their creative approaches to History, Sociology, (and the list goes on), makes me think how much we need to move away from the disciplinary obsession to beat the joy out of peoples ideas
#StudyingtheBlackSouth
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Our Geography grad students make me believe that we will win!!! They organized a powerful film screening last night, and there was not a dry eye in the house!!!
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Me knee deep in Octavia Butler’s papers having an emotional experience…Butler taught me about Black life or rather the conditions under which Black people live as dystopian. ⬇️
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Speaking today with third graders in Newark on water crisies happening in majority Black cities...and I am nervous, these babies have been studying Flint for weeks!!!! My toughest crowd yet, will share the art we are going to make together later <3
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@ztsamudzi
And yet nearly jeopardized his job to “protect” Ben Affleck’s not secret ancestor’s as wealthy plantation owners and enslavers, even as Affleck re-purchased a plantation near that same plantation…
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Normalizing reading articles and books so slowly. I have the urge to knockout 10 articles a day, I am only engaging in one. Today it was
@JTRoane
article on Tidewater Ecologies. As I finished this brilliant ass work, I started thinking of welfare (due to his use of enclosures) 🧵
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Toni Cade Bambara co-organized the Southern Rural Black Women's Network in 1980. THEE Linda Janet Holmes argues that the SRBN embodied The Salt Eaters...why fiction is never fiction... the works of Bambara a & others truly amplify the worlds Black rural feminists built <3
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Weak, grieving, physically sick…Palestine…🙏🏾 Haiti…Sudan…Congo…empire will fall but how many precious lives have to go with it?
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Y'all who write ethnographies and who conduct oral histories are the true GOATS! Just sent my first sheepish requests out, and it was so scary, especially since I have home training, and know that Black southern elders don't play!
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Beautiful two days of celebrating 50 yrs of environmental studies at Bowdoin College. My keynote to commemorate this celebration was dedicated to Fannie and June, but I get to end with Octavia, who I also think helps us think through ecology and the Black South. I love what I do!
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I & so many other Black women scholars needed spaces like what the Deborah Gray White conference brought together, I kept thinking about healing, doing the work esp. if it doesn’t bring you fame, & mentoring with love…I hope my legacy one day embodies that!
#iwillsurvive
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We are on strike! All of us and I mean all of us deserve livable wages to make Rutgers U a fantastic space for our students! Harlem asks that we don’t cross the physical or digital picket line!
#RUOnStrike
And if you ever wanted to meet him IRL meet us at the picket line!
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Literally just found this photo in the archives 🥹
📸: 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival participants at Jackson State University.
L-R: Margaret Goss Burroughs, Marion Alexander, June Jordan, Dorothy Porter, Audre Lorde, Mari Evans, Malaika Wangara, Etta Moten Barnett, Paula Giddings…[cont'd]
#blackwomenradicals
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"enslaved black people once forced to perform the backbreaking labor in the fields & who cultivated the sugar cane processed in Domino’s refinery for national consumption, are often obscured or altogether erased from these gentrified landscapes & built environments."
@ProfMcInnis
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This has allowed me to write &read on my own time, in ways that have been so healing, so intimate, private, &personal. It feels counterintuitive--we're meant to write so urgently, quickly, &publicly. And I know that day will come, but for now Im finding peace in the intimacy.2/2
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1st article since filing my diss 😭 I’m humble enough to know it’s only a 1st draft, but celebrating because I never thought I’d write again. I dedicate it to Fannie, who grad school try to make me hate &distance myself from, but who from the ancestral continued to have my back!
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The first BW professor I EVER HAD is out here breaking records on topics we are often told no one has interest in, my heart sings at this good news <3 <3
Honored to share that Wicked Flesh is the second best-selling
@PennPress
book (frontlist and backlist) in the fiscal year July 2021-June 2022. This is because of YOU all. Thank you and thank you and thank you 🌸🌸🌸
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Random 💭 based on grad school: I’m no longer interested in unis exploiting my friendships to bring people places, under-pay them, and then take 6 mos to under-pay them. Before you ask me to text so &so are you ready to cash app them if need be? No? Ok find someone else to do it.
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Call it burnout/classism/racism, I was a wreck in grad school. So, last semester, I practiced slowness to heal, as 2 days after filing, I had to teach &was barely hanging on. Today, I'm writing something for my eyes only, &the gift of having nothing to prove, feels liberating.
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“The underground and set-apart exceed the idea of the city as property.”
@JTRoane
@BostonReview
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I'm so emotional right now! Thank you to
@blkplaywright
@balagonline
&
@JTRoane
for an earth shattering conversation. LITERALLY NO ONE wanted to go home, we wanted to listen to you three talk for hours & hours. It was such a salve, such an invitation, such MOVEMENT!
@dslprojects
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Harry helped to fund and fundraised for Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farms, alongside Ruby Dee, they both funded and advocated for food justice in MS. Heartbreaking news, may he rest in peace!
I grew up listening to Harry Belafonte, who was my Jamaican mother’s heartthrob. Later, I grew to admire his activism. RIP.
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Join
@dslprojects
virtual salon on the entanglements of the catastrophic and Black diasporic bonds ft:
@blkplaywright
@JTRoane
@balagonline
@remainsanarchive
What remains after the storm? How does catastrophe mediate Black life? Find out on 09/14
#afterthestorm
#ATSxRemains
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Ok I is nervous!!! First round of oral history requests out & I am interviewing someone who worked on Freedom Village! For those who don’t know the MS Freedom Labor Union formed to get better wages for sharecroppers. ⬇️
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Found myself dreaming with Audre Lorde &Fannie Lou Hamer this AM, as I’m working through something on black ecos. Both reflected on disaster as an archive &how the issue wasn’t the storms but white supremacy. I want to hold onto that as I reject the frame disaster zones…
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Entering year two of the postdoc...I'm proudest of the collaboration built this year, which for me culminates in the Black Ecologies Lab & Global Black Geographies conf, both coming soon. The dream comes from interlocutors in MS who are getting it popping, so full...so grateful😭
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I’m excited about planning a mini Black ecos field school in Nov, we bringing folks from NJ, MS, Brazil, GA, NC & VA together, so we can breathe each other’s air, resisting global antiblackness 🥹
Really trying to take Dr. Alexander’s call to think in constellation seriously…
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"Care is a shared risk."
@hystericalblkns
I owe y'all a true review, as I finished Ordinary Notes today. But upon finishing, I found myself mourning Jordan Neely. The practice of care is to remember & tend to. I also know that care can be violent. Perhaps this is the review...
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Last day at the Black Women’s Gardens workshop at Dumbarton Oaks. As a native from SE DC I never got to see Georgetown it was weird but to reunite with my beloveds again so worth it!
@RogueChieftan
@JTRoane
thanks to Carlyn Ferrari and everyone who made the cookout possible!
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We just finished our lovely writing workshop with
@alexispauline
and the emotions are flowing and so is the love! Thank you to
@dslprojects
, the After the Storm crew, and both
@DrYoFiggy
and
@jmjafrx
for always supporting our dreams. If academia could always feel like this <3 ty!
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Black feminism/ist are not perfect, aren’t meant for romanticization, building the otherwise takes rifts, tension, and disagreements aa well as collective care, repair, and love. 3/6 ⬇️
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Returned from Buffalo safe from the worst of the blizzard. Lets be clear: state disaster relief &recovery is inherently antiblack--from Jackson to Buffalo. Surveillance, policing &carcerality...I always meditate on Mrs.Hamer, she said disaster was white supremacy by another name!
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This was such a time! I am so excited with all the things we get to PRACTICE and not just theorize, write, and publish on together through our little lab 😭💕
Teona Williams and I hosted our first Black ecologies lab salon in Harlem. A living room literally alive with brilliant geographers, artists, environmental scientists, historians, literature scholars, filmmakers, anthropologists, dancers, composers and organizers.
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Embodying Octavia Butler's love of boundaries. I have days that are dedicated to certain tasks and etc. My fav letter is when she told Toni Cade Bambara to call her anytime, except between 7 pm-7 am, those were her writing times & you would get the 1980s equivalent of blocked.
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In case someone else needs to hear this--it is okay to not have a clue! I came into my postdoc with so many people asking me what I want to do--and was too tired, too beaten down, too insecure to have a dream. I felt so guilty. Felt so undeserving. So anxious. So wasteful. ⬇️
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They killed
#JordanNeely
in spectacle & now NYC officials are like well, unhoused people shouldn’t have access to the subway? Mind you NYC has an abundance of empty apts & billionaires, but we can’t afford food &housing for all? Our only answer is eradication..I can’t with y’all!
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Since I did work this morning treating myself to a hike 🥰 Yes Harlem does give the best unwanted kisses!
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But what I’m learning is that their is a humility to say I got this wrong & I’m willing to sacrifice everything to make this right was the road to repair. Knowing that their sacrifice was nothing compared to living under violent & ongoing occupation, genocide after genocide. 4/6
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Last day in Tuscaloosa and the highlights were Billie Jean Young’s papers, a Black feminist playwright who was moving mountains for her community and the Radical South Zines, worth the trip 🤸🏽♀️💃🏽
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I am so blessed to know the smartest AND kindest people in the game! Y’all make me want to stay in academia forever forever! So what collective project can we do so we can see each other again 👀
@thegardengriot
and
@JTRoane
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Getting to celebrate Deborah Gray White’s retirement feels more like a family reunion!!! Get to see both
@Alycia_hall
and
@cfeimster
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Many of those same comrades came back to Palestine and Jordan acknowledging that they had gotten it terribly wrong, and went on speak out vehemently against occupation. 2/6 ⬇️
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Day 1 in L.A.: ok we are having fun! You can tell we aren’t used to the sunlight, but as 2 southern peaches don’t worry…we shall adjust!
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Got to hang with
@RogueChieftan
, cite my forever bae
@JTRoane
, & meet 4 wonderful scholars, thanks to Gettysburg College’s Africana Studies dept. Ya know I have to talk about Fannie Lou Hamer & Black ecos all day evrrrryyyyydaaaayyy! Days like this make academia delicious!
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When I say environmental history is civil rights history: Unita Blackwell SNCC organizer &long time movement activist, dedicated her path to organizing which included demanding food, housing, &water to MS rural population, to her lessons from plants while foraging as a child!
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This week is my fav week in the semester!!! We’s reading
@JTRoane
Dark Agoras & the blackecologies zine, as well as
@AMoulton876
&
@daniellepurifoy
…I know too many readings but idc idc. The streets needs this fire collab! And they are grad students they will forgive me!
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Today we are discussing Brandi T. Summers Black in Place alongside Katherine McKittrick's Plantation Futures and Jordanna Maltan's Blackness in (Post) Colonial African City, I am loving pairing oldies, all goodies, with newer work on Black urban geographies. Onwards!
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Recently shared again with a colleague as Octavia Butler really gave freely a master class on writing…I still struggle with writing and seeing myself as a writer, but I trust Butler wholeheartedly so will return to making these mantras my own until I believe myself!
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Accidentally did a 3 mile hike because we couldn’t find the trail head, but the good news is Harlem is finally tired 🙏🏾 May the weekend have felt long in a good way—esp. to all my educators fam 💜
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Love that this gets to now be one of the kick off events for the newly minted Black Ecologies lab at Rutgers!!! Go on and register now and see some good folks!!!
Rescheduled due to labor action from Spring to October 18, 2023. Please register using the link.
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What a joyful read to end the evening and kickoff
#AAIHS2023
<3
"Grace Lee Boggs and Wangari Maathai were central figures in the development of the global environmental movement," writes
@DrHettie2017
. Read the full essay today at
@BlkPerspectives
: .
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I am so FULL! What a scrumptious, delicious and savory retreat! So many times we are taught to see the rifts between us, to see the gaps in others, but this weekend was about what holds us together, & how to be held. I love my
@dslprojects
family! & to
@jmjafrx
and
@DrYoFiggy
😭
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This is such a dope thread! And not saying it because my name s there 😂 Saying it because it is a great syllabus for those interested in Black ecos, Black environments, and race and environment to name a few!
Teona Williams—For “Peace, Quiet, and Respect”: Race, Policing, and Land Grabbing on Chicago’s South Side
#earthday
#blackecologies
a thread
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Baby we had a time at the Tappahannock Field School/Food Justice Symposium! Y’all go ahead and read the Black Ecologies zine and get your WHOLE life! I already miss Just Harvest! Thanks
@JTRoane
for modeling what it means to be a whole person in this world and to be in community!
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Evidence of me grading (FINALLY) dancing along to one of my students Zine projects: They connected use of glysophate with the war on drugs in Columbia linking both as an environmental injustice issue...this is why the children are the FUTURE! More to come below!
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Then I read materials on welfare and reproduction which unknowingly brought me back to Black Ecologies, Jina B. Kim's Cripping the Welfare Queen taught me about radical dependency and how some of us have survived the end of the world 10,000 times over.
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So make noise last week I learned from 15 Quilombo women that we make noise to show that we are FIGHTING, for the government uses our silence to kill us. Well the government is using our silence as complicity 6/6. Stand with Palestine. Haiti. Sudan. Free them all. 6/6
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The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers NB was horrendously attacked over Eid, please consider donating as they rebuild:
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Writing this while stick sick but can’t help but to return to Hamer when she said “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired,” when we collectively be sick and tired??? These aren’t chants or posters these are demands…
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Finally found an out of print book I have been eager to get my hands on for three years!!! And look who helped me finish taking photos—and I got my NYPL library card!
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Watching
@EssahCozett
cross over to doctaaa was all I needed this week!!! We will see in her work the bridging of Africana, Caribbean, African and Black Studies. Bridging phenomenal afro-femme scholarship from Liberia to PR. Dr. Cozett Diaz presente! Proud sibling moment 😭
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I need to learn library science. I spent 5 years training to be a historian, 15 hours unsuccessfully looking up a BW tornado survivor I'm enamored with, & in 30 min our
@dslprojects
archivist found the day she passed & her church...me over here crying I never thought I find her😭
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There’ve been several coyote sightings where I live, each time I hear it, I pray a little harder that they continue to be free, & enjoy the shocked look on folks faces when they realize I’m on the side of the coyotes. Coyotes will win, growth centered dev will crumble…so be it!
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I will be in NYC discussing black feminist organizing before& beyond Earth Day, pull up! I am always geeked to talk collaborative life forces—or how Fannie taught Unita, L.C., & June who was in cahoots with Toni and Audre, who I am sure all loved Octavia…forever squad!
How much do you know about Earth Day?
Join us at the Pop-Up this Sat to explore & reclaim the meaning of the first Earth Day.
W/
@KaraSchlichting
@QC_News
, Mia White
@TheNewSchool
, &
@TheBlackEcoFem
@RutgersU
.
📍120 Wooster St
🗓️ 4/22, 3pm
🔗 FREE RSVP:
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A la
@JTRoane
& Hosbey Black ecologies denote blackness ongoing proximity to disaster...who knew 9 words could compel you to dance, think aloud & inspire a movement? I'm over the moon to have my sib speak at our salon on 09/14. See how he gets down⬇️
@dslprojects
@remainsarchive
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VIBE! When
@DerraisCarter
offered that some things meant to be FELT through & not worked through, my knees went weak! When
@scryptkeeper
made us think through the level of care required to survive the onslaught of attacks on Black life…bawling…touched…forever changed 😭
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SO PROUD OF
@JTRoane
the work is fire, and I am waiting on his biography and work on the Black feminist ecological thought of Junie so badly <3
Yes! I just finished Dark Agora’s and
@JTRoane
is already dropping new work “Terraforming ‘mississippi-america’: On June Jordan’s Spatial and Ecological Thought.”
#AAIHS2023
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Reading should be collaborative and not extractive. The journey of creating knowledge should be collaborative and not extractive. Why post grad life for me, has been all about slowness, humility, kindness, reading until I understand, discovering my genre, and the list goes on <3
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@jukiejones
@blaqueerflow
Leflore County, MS, so in the interview they only mention the plantation they worked on and not the town! But in Leflore!
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I never go to major conferences in my field…on purpose…but to see so much of my academic family over the past four days…I glad I took the risk! Today was for Korean BBQ! Back to NYC where it may be raining but we will finally get our share of 60 degree weather 💃🏿
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This quote led me to a completely different project...I knew what brought me to the land was an obsession with disaster, organized abandonment (thnxx Ruthie Gilmore), and repair. So grateful to be a part of ATS where I can dwell on these questions in ways I never imagined <3
Fannie Lou Hamer🌸 AtS focuses on stories of survivors of eco. disasters in the Caribbean and US South. Currently, they're building a site to publish archival material on Black community survival after tornadoes in MS + interviews of Afro-Puerto Rican women after Hurricane María.
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My copy of
@JTRoane
Dark Agoras hasn’t come yet/early. Did I get tired of waiting &asked for it as a gift…yes…will I now have 2 copies…yes…will I get boffum signed…yes…will it be my first book of 2023…YAAAAZZZZ! Will I live tweet my adventure…yaaazzz!
#slowreadingall2023
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When I was in the thick of it, and still had to write the intro to my diss, a dear friend recommended Hilda Lloréns intro to Making Livable Worlds. I couldn't read anything more at the time, but have started it for this week, and the intro indeed is a model! ⬇️
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I'm on ch 6 of Dark Agoras, & I refuse to finish, because I refuse to finish the book...
@JTRoane
once told me to embrace the art of re-reading...I shall...but for now I refuse to check DA off of my list& move on...how deceptively easy it is to devour this text! But take yo time!
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As a teacher I have been blessed learn from my Palestinian students. Under Trump they came to me about not being able to go home. Under Biden, they come to me about not knowing if their family is alive. I have nothing to offer them but weak protection as unis punish dissent. 5/6
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