Periloux C. Peay
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Asst. Professor focused on Black politics and policy @UofMaryland @AASD_UMD . Music connoisseur. Iron Chef. Wine maker. Alpha. RT=/=Endorsement
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The 2020 Anthem we didn't even know we needed.
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Yall do realize that a LOT of grad students in recent cohorts are in their mid-late 30s and had full ass lives before entering grad school. These grown ass people have the capacity to generate opinions even if they don't jive with your scholarly assessment.
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As a Texan...
Juneteenth isn't just a Black thing... its specifically a Black Texan thing.
It's still weird watching everyone celebrate Juneteenth now when it wasn't a thing beyond TX and Louisiana for most of my life.
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@JoyAnnReid
Republicans promoted a clown to the highest office in the land, and you're surprised that he turned D.C. into a circus?
#Trumpcare
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The guy who was once advised to "rethink if grad school is right for you" in his second semester just finished his first year on the TT with 4 pubs and as a lead PI on a million-dollar collaborative NSF grant.
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Bruh... just randomly thinking about how someone blew up 5 Blocks of downtown Nashville less than 9 months ago and it lasted all of 15 minutes in the news cycle lol.
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One thing that I've found as a person that finished grad school at 36 is that the people that I respect and cherish the most were those that treated and respected me as a colleague before I got these letters after my name.
If more people tried that, we'd be much better off.
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Guess it's time to make it Twitter Official:
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Department of African American Studies
@AASD_UMD
at the
@UofMaryland
this fall.
That's right... im moving to the DMV
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Adventures of the Big Black "grad student?":
Episode: Ann Arbor
Random lady on the street: I feel so comfortable walking next to you. Like if anything goes down you could beat people up. Are you a bouncer?
Me : No
Lady: Athlete?
Me: Nope. PhD student.
Lady: oh. REALLY? HM.
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Had to give my students the tough talk today...
I told them if they kill me with Covid, I'm haunting their family for generations to come.
We all got a damn good laugh out of it.
Then I waited for silence, and said "I'm serious". Then went to the next slide.
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Departments and universities are increasing pushing scholars to engage in public-facing work... However, they are doing little to nothing to protect scholars from marginalized communities from the racist abuse that comes along with that charge.
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Is Anyone else building in a covid contingency plan into their syllabi? Because I damn sure am.
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Funny how, of all the celebrities who's careers bit the dust over sexual misconduct allegations, Big Ben AND Trump are still out employed like nothing happened.
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This generation of scholar is different in a number of ways... this is one of them. If you are expecting power dynamics to be similar to when you graduated 20 years ago... (at the age of 26... because you went straight from undergrad to your PHD)
You'll be surprised...
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A bit of personal news: I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the amazing faculty in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. I couldn't have imagined that I'd have the opportunity to continue my teaching and research at such an exciting place.
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What if i told you the BIGGEST disconnect in discussions of "woke" is that white folk wrongly assume the term is about inclusivity. It's not.
It's origins are EXCLUSIVELY BLACK. It described a form of BLACK self-enlightenment. It's not meant to depict - or entertain - whiteness.
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The restraint that police show when white folk try to physically upend democracy is noticeably different than when Black folk cry for freedom.
No teargas, water hoses, or rubber bullets. No tanks, low-hovering helicopters, or LRAD vehicles. Not even a curfew.
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University: We will make a genuine effort to appeal to underrepresented communities with our new Diversity and Inclusion initiative...
The "Diversity and Inclusion" initiative:
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It's also weird to see the near instant commodification of a holiday used to commemorate the date that enslaved Texans learned of their freedom.
It's also weird that the federal holiday is only 2 years old and was only declared in response to the second wave of the BLM movement.
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States collectively deciding to ban CRT is THE structural racism that CRT points to.
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Nelly Furtado is trendin... I wonder why?
*clicks button*
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I'm honestly nervous to watch the second season of
#Harlem
because I have a feeling Meagan Good is going to open up the season as an endowed chair and Full Professor at Columbia with 2 publications and a half-finished dissertation and I won't be able to unknow that.
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ITS OFFICIAL:
I'm a part of a ROCKSTAR team of NSF FUNDED scholars. Our project will study how social movements and grassroots organizations shape political participation in pivotal states.
Shout out to
@nkbaptis
@blfraga
@jlynnmccoy
@Dr_NMCarter
@artiestan
and
@jarvishall52
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And yes, it is weird to see the ways in which EVERYONE (read: non-Black folk) celebrate Juneteenth.
The same way it's weird to see non-Mexican folk celebrate Cinco De Mayo with tacos and watered-down margaritas - wrongfully thinking its Mexican independence day.
It's weird.
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This is a whole dissertation.
She developed a categorization system for conspiracy theories.
Brilliant...
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So yes, it is weird to see EVERYONE (read: nationally) celebrate the date that enslaved folks in TEXAS learned about their freedom.
We don't celebrate Emmancipation Day... Do we?
Why have we now adopted Juneteenth as National Negro Independence Day?
It's weird.
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I never said that Juneteenth was EXCLUSIVELY a Black Texan thing.
I said that Juneteenth was SPECIFICALLY a Black Texan thing.
The word choice was intentional. The specificity is two-fold. It's specifically Black AND it's SPECIFICALLY Texan.
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Me yesterday: I'll stop wearing my mask when the CDC tells me it's safe.
CDC Today: Its safe.
Me: KISS MY ENTIRE ASS CDC... YOU SHILL!!! I'M WEARING THIS DAMN MASK FOREVER!
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Yall wanna talk revisions?
Let's talk revisions.
First, let's set the scene:
It's April 21st, 2020. The world is on lockdown. I am one of the first, if not the first person, at the university to defend their dissertation on Zoom.
I also had a job in hand.
I'm increasingly seeing this, doctoral students announcing that they 'passed with no revisions'. Revisions are a very normal part of academic life, in a lot of instances they make work even stronger. If you pass with no revisions great, if you pass after revisions, also great.
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Can Van Jones not cry tonight... I don't have time for his bullshit.
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1. Most of the "canon" wouldn't make it past the desk in most journals today.
2. Too much of the new academic's life is dependent on guys who got jobs based on a wink and a handshake and tenure off 3 articles.
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I taught US History in Texas (its outright propaganda) and Intro PS courses here at OU. There isn't a single misplaced letter in this tweet.
Here's a quick thread on how jacked up teaching History in Texas is (when you arent supplementing it with your own curriculum). 1/?
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Their kids are now the octogenarian Karens arguing to preserve the "purity" of the games...
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I usually start the year off painting, so thought I'd take a shot at capturing
@JanetJackson
(Miss Jackson, if you're nasty) today... and totally underestimated how much detail (and time) was going to go into all that damn hair.
I'll be painting till 2024 at this rate.
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Whats a side dish that you neglected as a youth but now cherish as an adult, and why is it "brussel sprouts"?
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Again, I know that you might commemorate Juneteenth... and that your momma and granny might have too.
But, as a Texan that grew up 30 minutes from the port where the federal troops landed to deliver the news...
It's weird to see everyone celebrate Juneteenth.
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On thing that I'm going to make sure to do is provide my students with pictures of the weeks' authors in the slides.
I'm teaching a Black Politics class that's 95% Black. My syllabus is full of awesome, BEAUTIFULLY Black folk. I want my students to see themselves in the work.
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So insurrectionists can land on 3 APSA panels but I get rejected every year since grad school lol.
Cool... cool.
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Dude goes to Supercuts... if he's too fragile to handle a Black barbershop, he's too fragile to handle BLM protests.
He seems fragile, particularly for someone who allegedly pledged a Black fraternity... with no members present at his engagement party or wedding. But let me sit here and eat my food...
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Let me know when yall are ready to have the conversation about how 90% of academics on here have remained silent on CRT bans because they don't engage with racial equality... but now they are mad because they want to come for tenure.
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Let's go to Uncle Joe for his take on resiliance... what's your greatest setback?
Joe: I dont have setbacks...
*protesters protests*
Joe:
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Can we (yall) FINALLY throw away the narratives that 2016 was an anomaly, or that the Comey letter actually mattered and, instead,, replace it with a collective reckoning that this damned country is deeply invested in white supremacy and ALL of its evil tentacles.
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When you've been getting paid peanuts as a grad student... but your first faculty check hits... so now you FANCY fancy (but you gotta get a to go plate bc of the global pandemic).
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Random thoughts while dissertating:
Does anyone else find as much joy in citing your brilliant friends and colleagues as much as I do?
I want the world to know that I roll with geniuses.
I wish academic writing could be more informal so that I could say "my homie X said"...
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90 percent of the people screaming, "What about the grad students and vulnerable groups!?!? They need APSA for the networking opportunities!!!" weren't going to attend their panels - or even interacting with them - anyways.
Yall were gonna sit at the bar in your closed circles.
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Check yaself before you wreck yaself: when policing culture in academia takes a terrible turn
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Black folk get teargassed, hit with rubber bullets and sprayed by high power water hoses for doing this shit.
Trumpers get police escorts.
Obnoxious Trump supporters in New York shut down Mario Cuomo bridge
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Just went to price a frame for my diplomas... looks like these joints bout to sit in these envelopes till I become a full professor cuz GAHDAMMIT.
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When a Black woman looks at you like this in public, just stop whatever tf it was that you were doing and apologize from the depths of your soul.
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Excited to announce that I am the recipient of a generous grant from the New Perspectives for Studies in American Governance program. This grant will help me complete my archival work and bring my book project to life!
I'm thankful to the
@au_ccps
for the support!
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A Capitol POLICE OFFICER...
PUT ON A MAGA HAT
AND STARTED LEADING RIOTERS AROUND THE BUILDING...
GIVING GUIDED FUCKING TOURS TO PEOPLE YELLING "HANG MIKE PENCE!"
... and he didn't get fired.
Can't reform that shit...
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@JoyAnnReid
"You knew I was a snake when you took me in". - Donald Trump
After...
Pussygate, Russiagate, Wikigate, TedCruzGate, MexicoGate, BeatUpTheProtestersgate, GoldenShowergate, and any other gate you can think of.
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Every change in CDC guidelines has been motivated by one thing... the economy.
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The point of the story:
Are revisions a part of the process? Absolutely. Are there points where changes should be made? Sure.
But ask these questions?
Why do you want the revisions? Is the project fatally flawed? Is it to make the project better, or to exert dominance?
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I see there's a segment of the Twitterverse interpreting me saying "it's weird to see everyone celebrating juneteenth" because it's "specifically a Black Texan thing" as:
A. Me claiming that Juneteenth wasn't celebrated anywhere but TX and LA. And,
B: Gatekeeping Juneteenth
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Remember, this is the guy who told everyone to keep going to bars and restaurants (and took his kids) when everyone else was shutting down.
BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt confirms he has tested positive for COVID-19.
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This understanding is important for senior scholars to grasp.
The tenure expectation gap is twice as ridiculous.
A 🧵
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Shout out to one of my students who checked me last week.
I was powering through a lecture and mentioned the name of an author (who I'm good friends with) without including her title.
Student said "can you please address her by her title, she earned that!"
I was proud AF.
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Students,
We know. You're not slick...
Signed, your professor
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Remember when I told yall that higher ups were adopting a "wait and see" posture with the "CRT" ban because "they were only targeting secondary schools"?
Now they are explicitly targeting UNIVERSITY "*COURSES, CURRICULUM, JOBS, AND RESEARCH*"
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If the project is fatally flawed, you should have caught that long before the defense. If you didn't, it's probably because (a) you didn't read it, or (b) you wanted to be a dick.
Fatally flawed projects shouldn't get to the defense stage.
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Stop calling this shit parody.
It's not.
I was told DURING MY DISSERTATION DEFENSE that submitting my work to REP journals was "aiming low". And that engaging with questions that were targeted for those types of audiences was a waste.
This shit is toxic... and quite real.
Grad Students: You NEED to publish. But you NEED to do so in top journals. I routinely see grad CVs with 4-5 publications, but in small journals. And I think… Great, but they must have a small mind. One publication at a top journal is far better than five in low-impact venues.
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First time in my adult life voting in a competitive election.
To my Atlanta folks... State Farm arena is literally empty. SO FAR, no line, no crowds, VERY SAFE . Took me all of 10 minutes to park, vote, and leave.
Also... shout out to my momma for this fire ass mask.
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The inability of a largely white audience to define or engage with "woke" stems from an inability to fathom a world where they aren't centered, a language they didn't "create", and a form of cultural education that they can't participate in.
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On this episode of zoom lectures with Peay:
During Q&A, one of my student's auntie told them to ask if I was single.
I bullshit you not.
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Life for a scholar was pretty low-risk when the charge was to create works that ~200 people (mostly other scholars) would read.
Now, we have to worry about Nazis and racist trolls coming after us because you want me to turn my dissertation into Vox article.
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Southern states relying on unpaid, largely-Black labor, claiming its essential to sustain their economy.
Now where have I heard this before?
Cool map from
@Stadium
breaking down which states will have FBS programs playing football in fall as of Aug. 13
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I had three opportunities for extra credit this year each worth 5 pts on their OVERALL grade.
One was an Easter egg for just reading the syllabus.
One was a writing assignment.
Finally they could have performed their favorite karaoke song.
Total credit given this year = 0 pts
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Once again... going through page proofs and the copy editor lower-cased all of my capitalized Bs in "Black".
STOP THIS SHIT.
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If you are an academic arguing against student loan forgiveness, you probably got tenure by getting Top 3 journal pubs running crosstabs and citing the rest of your all-Boys club.
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If you demand revisions for no other reason than to exert power... kiss my entire ass.
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Can't have a second wave if you never make it out of the initial wave.
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The entire exercise was a power grab... a flex that did not contribute to the advancement of the project. If anything, it stalled it.
The two chapters that were in R&R were eventually published without white members.
But I was left with a dissertation that I resented.
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Student emails:
Saturday at 11:59 pm: "Please respond at your earliest convenience"
Sunday at 12:02 am: "I was wondering if you received my last email?"
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Hot take time:
Are PhDs from "third-rate" institutions ruining the market?
Or has the practice of turning your nose up to non-elite job openings out of fear that you'll be labeled "underplaced" by your elitist friends finally catching up to you?
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Its a damn shame all these folks in the Midwest are risking their lives this Thanksgiving for unseasoned food.
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I can't imagine what it's like to be bombarded with hate mail. It's part of the reason why I'm hesitant-as a Black scholar that studies sensitive subjects - to dive into public scholarship.
Plus, I'm not built like that. Folks can catch these professorial hands.
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If it's because you want to improve the project, can they not do that post-graduation?
Why did you spend 5-6 years of this person's life telling the that "a good dissertation is a done dissertation", then turn around and demand a perfect dissertation?
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New Pub Alert:
Im excited about this one because its with my family
@c_mcnair2
.
Our analysis shows that state-level police reform in response to
#BLM
protests is shaped by concurrent pressures - protests in their own state and influence from peers.
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Allowing a single nation veto power over a global council is the worst business model imaginable.
US vetoes Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza
Favor: 12 (Albania, Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland,UAE)
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 2 Russia, UK
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