Eric E. Solomon, PhD
@eesolomo
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🏳️🌈Professor & Writer • Originally from Leland, MS, birthplace of Kermit the Frog • Views mine• he/him/his
Atlanta, GA
Joined April 2009
Please go read my conversation with @jerichobrown about the great Reginald Shepherd @SouthernSpaces! ❤️ https://t.co/x4qAhetQDl
southernspaces.org
In this extensive conversation (with audio excerpts), Southern Spaces “Queer Intersections” series editor Eric Solomon talks with acclaimed poet Jericho Brown about his editing of The Selected...
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“The possibility of suffering being redeemed by art, being made meaningful and thus real … is still vital to me. Art reminds us of the uniqueness, particularity, and intrinsic value of things, including ourselves.” —Reginald Shepherd, “Why I Write” https://t.co/jgoBK5MVvG
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Happy to have been a part of this conversation with Jericho about a poet who means a great deal to us both. ❤️
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🦊🎃Greetings from our Feast! In Halloween class with Professor Mr. Fox, we relished in our careful close readings & thoughtful discussion of literary texts. There were Halloween treats & intellectual feats! #fantasticmrfox #halloween
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Today is #NationalComingOutDay. Whether you’re out in the country or out in the city, whether you’re *out* at all, may you have the courage to live your life fully & invite those you trust & love to witness your blossoming ❤️🌼🌸🌻🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈☀️ #pride #queerhistorymonth
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Day One ✅ Greeted over coffee this morning by my deer Mom and baby neighbors. 2 lectures delivered by 10 am. Office hours & meeting with phenomenal teaching assistants by noon… now, writing time. ❤️ #AcademicTwitter
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We're gearing up for multiple events this fall! Hope you can join us! @CrystalWilki @eesolomo More info: https://t.co/8QWsIx2fAg
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Believe (in) Joy. A better politics is possible. "I believe in a better politics, one that finds us at our most decent and open and brave." —Pete Buttigieg #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #DNC #ChooseJoy #CoachWalz #ForThePeople #PeteButtigieg
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Looking forward to celebrating the legacy & wisdom of Lillian E. Smith. “You ask me what we want. And I say, who are we?” —Lillian E. Smith, Killers of the Dream
Make sure to join us at @PiedmontGA Mason-Scharfenstein Museum this fall as we celebrate Lillian E. Smith. Featuring presentations by Mark Albertin, Hal Jacobs, and @eesolomo
@KeriLeighMerrit
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as long as life lasts, and I would not have to risk sounding so grandiose were I not under the necessity of attempting to excavate the meaning of the word community—which, as I have understood it, simply means our endless connection with, and responsibility for, each other” /6
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I had been told to love everybody. Whoever else did not believe this, I did. The way of the transgressor is hard, indeed, but it is hard because the community produces the transgressor in order to renew itself. I am afraid that this mathematic, this inexorability, will last /5
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I am proud of these students and the community they have forged. I am reminded of Baldwin’s words in TEOTNS that we discussed yesterday in class: “I was acting, after all, on the moral assumptions I had inherited from the community that had produced me… /4
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that were disturbing and upsetting to many of us. News and updates slowly trickled in as we met, reminding us that many of the topics Baldwin persistently addressed were just-as if-not-more-so relevant and urgent today as they were when he first wrote about them. /3
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another student set up the zoom lens, & together we stood smiling, proud of our intense & rewarding semester thinking with Baldwin. However, our smiles were also tinged with uncertainty. As we met in class yesterday, simultaneously, actions were occurring on main campus /2
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Thursday, we celebrated the final session of our seminar “James Baldwin’s America” for the semester. We took this photograph after having our final discussion on Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen & reflecting on the semester together. One student propped up her water /1🧵
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These arrests are antithetical to the mission of higher ed. Our institutions exist to foster robust exchanges of ideas & open dialogue in service of knowledge & understanding. Sometimes that includes open dissent. Peaceful campus protests should never be met w/ violence.
@MiddleEastEye Here’s @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor” #Gaza #Protesters
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🌈Say gAyTL! Go give this important document a read! & please share. I am honored to have been a small part of this process & project! Thanks especially to my fellow members of the Historic Atlanta LGBTQ+ Historic Preservation Advisory Board. https://t.co/4qfftJ8Ffl
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