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Visiting Assistant Professor of WGSS Black Feminist-Womanist Scholar Forthcoming 📖 Voices from The Inside: Incarcerated Women Speak @UCPress
Meadville, Pennsylvania
Joined October 2020
If you're balancing pace and purpose, this is for you. My Fourth Wave piece on presence, alignment, and joy at 50. #GenX #care #joy #Blackfeminism
https://t.co/ELAO4uXdRY
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50 & Fabulous: Joining the 50 Club and Embracing Freedom Dr. Tamanika Ferguson On October 23, I joined the 50 club. While I embrace this thing called “aging,” I admit that I was not ready to …
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📢 New Publication Alert "In The Belly of The Beast." In Feminist Criminology, I argue that inside (prison) testimony is theory and resistance. #AbolitionFeminism
#CarceralStudies Share and add it to your assigned class readings. https://t.co/qax7bWSGki
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Some states have implemented policies that prohibit or limit paper mail within prisons. In this op-ed, @wmnstudischolar (@Wellesley) explains why protecting physical mail is essential for dignity, organizing, and collective learning. Read in @truthout:
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States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.
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The wonderful Tina McPhee and I published a paper 🥳 We use the work of Dean Spade and bell hooks to intimate why people with lived experience go on to use their expertise in criminology/ criminal justice. Read the paper here: https://t.co/A2XkFIp3Ix
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Thank you @BlackWomenCrim1 for the blurb! This publication was a labor of love ❤ #citeasista 👇🏽
Check out @wmnstudischolar solo-authored article published in the Feminist Formations journal, titled "Lessons in Resistance, Activism, and solidarity." Go download, read, share, and add it to your assigned class readings! 🙌🏾👍🏾❤️ @TheBCNetwrk @BlackFeminisms @blkwomenstudies
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End of the semester doesn't any better than this! We got this! @DrStephensPeace @DaraDelgado
#blackwomenprofessors
#blackwomeninhighered
#blackjoy #laughteriscontagious #joyiscontagious #strikeapose
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These types of "ridiculous" remarks serve as a clear reminder of who is part of the problem, not the solution.
@truthout the thing is, we're always going to need prisons - so the real discussion is prison reform, not ridiculous ideas like "abolishing prisons"
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My article just went live and is part of the #Roadtoabolition series at Truthout.
A reformist approach to women’s incarceration places responsibility of reform on the individual, not the institution. https://t.co/5LD1yveo7q
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I've secured my spot. Looking forward to working with this group.
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"People have intrinsic value that can and must not be so easily discarded. Let’s leave what we know has failed us where it belongs: in the dustbin of our state’s history. It’s time to build a stronger future for California." -CURB’s People’s Plan for Prison Closure @c_c_w_p
✨Closing prisons across the nation offers us infinite possibilities… 🌱What would your community create instead of a prison? #CareNotCages
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🧵6/6 institutions requires working across differences and creating space for different positionalities to sustain the battle against #injustice
#prisonabolition #carceraljustice
#confrontracism #FreeThemAll
#collectiveresistance #workingfromthemargins #formerlyincarcerated
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🧵 5/5 "uncelebrated" and legit scholars are located at the juncture of - or in the space between #socialmovements who are co-partners in the struggle. I refuse to be marginalized within these spaces and will call folks out on it. #reimaginingcommunities and our public
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🧵4/4 #BlackLiberationParty are excellent examples. To speak in sport code, in any social movement structure there are key players on the first line of defense, second line and those on the last line of defense, all playing to their strengths to work toward a common goal. Many
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🧵3/3 the "inner" circle or not highly celebrated because we are not on the frontlines or "doing enough." Movements have always had people on the frontlines and those behind the scenes. Each one playing an important role and to their strengths. The #BlackPantherParty and the
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🧵2/2 #incarcerated background, family history with the criminal legal system in #California or my work, but felt the need to get hostile because of my academic creds! Nothing new here. I've been in movement spaces where the mentality is to dismiss the work of scholars outside
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🧵 1/2 Assumptions about #socialmovement scholar's "street" cred or legitimacy in the broader movement undermines collective struggle. I experienced this hostility during a conversation in a non academic movement space where I participated. This person had no knowledge of my
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Woohoo! I'll be joining an amazing panel @nwsa in November to wax politically about Resistance to the Carceral State. It's. Going. Down. ➡️ Friday, November 11, 9:30 to 10:45 @ the Hilton Minneapolis, Orchestra Ballroom A. #nwsa2022 #nwsaconference
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