Tricia Matthew

March 2, 2026, Instagram post from adanne.co promoting "The NYC Black-Women Owned Bookstore Crawl," with the participating bookstores listed: Adanne Bookshop, Liz's Book Bar, The Lit Bar, BEM | Books & More, The Little Bookshop, Cafe con Libros, Nefer Bookcafe, Gladys Books & Wine, Sister's Uptown Bookstore, The Free Black Women's Library. There is a color illustration of four quaint buildings in a row. Each building has a sign on it that says "Books" or "Books Shop."

MARCH 2026: The inaugural, month-long #NYC Black Women-Owned Bookstore Crawl, with: Adanne; Liz's Book Bar; The Lit. Bar; BEM | books & more; The Little Bookshop; Café con Libros; Nefer Bookcafe; Gladys Books & Wine; Sister's Uptown Bookstore; The Free Black Women's Library. #bookstores #BlackWomen

I was once invited to apply for a fellowship to work in an archive—arduous application, two letters of recommendation, and, wait for it, not enough funds to cover the required time in the archive.

A small thing in these times, but it has been a whole year since I shopped at Target. It wasn’t a “sacrifice,” but it was a big adjustment.

Mirroring History This silver-plated tea set may appear on the surface to be a simple assortment of serving containers. But what has this set seen, what has it heard?

"By serving tea in her home, Joanna Howard could meet with the prominent abolitionists with less fear of violent retribution. These acts helped knit together a network that survived and spanned many generations, involving their own children." - I loved reading about tea & Black history.

Also. Sweet Taste of Empire is 40% off until tomorrow.

Truly smart and necessary books we have featured on The Race and Regency Pod!

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Snippet of publishing agreement with OUP for a book titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned — part of the Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures series edited by Patricia Matthew and Manu Samriti Chander.

All the things have been signed, so it is official: my book on lyric manscapes, planetary humanisms, & ambivalent reading is forthcoming in OUP’s Race in C19 Literatures & Cultures series! @triciamatthew.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social you are extraordinary editors, grateful for you. Woohoo!

Thank you for trusting us with your work!

1/ @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social have drafted a seminal brief: (a) that centers Black American beliefs on birthright citizenship and (b) uses a set of primary sources, such as speeches and Colored Conventions, fought for (and won) broad birthright citizenship for everyone.

Beyonce could do the funniest thing and release her album during the state of the union

Working on my Mansfield Park edition and this made me mmmmhmmm in agreement: “he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her tranquillity…”

We have all met that man.

For Tayari Jones, All Roads and All Novels Lead to Atlanta

Just the loveliest profile of a writer who deserves all of the hosannas.

a painting of a man riding a horse with a lantern ALT: a painting of a man riding a horse with a lantern

Me telling everyone I see that alternate side parking days are back.

Woot!

Today is Audre Lorde’s birthday.

🪷Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.🪷

And I am a notoriously terrible photographer with a bad phone! @rezekjoe.bsky.social is really just that attractive and the paper was truly brilliant.

What happened today is that in the middle of an important, fascinating conference, someone said 6/7 and @rezekjoe.bsky.social and I reacted like kids.

Paperback book on a desk. The cover of the book is a collage featuring a dark-skinned man wearing a reflective visor over his eyes and butterfly wings where his hair would be. Title of the book is Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination, author's name is andré m. carrington

Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
@fordhampress.bsky.social

Singer Bad Bunny dressed in a cream colored outfit standing on a cream colored pickup truck surrounded by dancers in tan outfits against a backdrop of sugar cane.

A tan book cover that says THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE in green letters and SUGAR, MASTERY, AND PLEASURE IN THE ANGLO CARIBBEAN KIM F. HALL in brown letters

My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history

Singer Bad Bunny dressed in a cream colored outfit and carrying a football in his gloved hand is walking through a mock field of sugar cane with workers wearing straw hats and holding machetes

Bad Bunny opening halftime performance by moving through sugarcane highlights colonial history that binds US, Puerto Rico & the larger Caribbean. Sugar everywhere in the performance - drinks, wedding 🎂, etc. Labor, desire & pleasure tied to the land.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

This is just to say that “with” is doing a lot of work in this post. This is @shruti-jain.bsky.social’s vision and work, every bit of it! 🤎🩵🤎🩵

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For real:
Sanitation workers are heroes! Trash pick up around mountains of snow is no joke! Especially in this cold.

Blessings, on blessings, on blessings to the neighbor who cleared the sidewalk ALL the way to the curb. Walking in the snow and ice with one leg still healing is hard. I was so grateful for a safe path this 🥶 morning!

Black Studies in Europe: A Politics of Knowledge Friday, 13th February 2026, ONLINE Speakers: Sara Fila Bakabadio, Nicole Grégoire and Jacinthe Mazzochetti Jacinthe Mazzocchetti is professor at UCLouvain (Belgium) currently working on migrations, gender and performing arts. She is affiliated to the research center for prospective anthropology (LAAP/IACCHOS), co-director of the collections “EthnopoetiK” and “Anthropologie prospective” (Academia). Nicole Grégoire is research affiliate at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporaines, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She the author of articles and chapters on race and Africa diasporas’ activism in Belgium. Sarah Fila-Bakabadio is historian of the Black Atlantic, Associate Professor in American and African American studies at CY Cergy Paris Université (France), editor-chief of African Diaspora (Brill) and member of the publishing house, Ròt-bò-Krik. Her work focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and political circulations of African-Americans and European Afro-descendants in the Black Atlantic in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe.
The three editors discuss their recently published anthology.
Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽
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We are so lucky to have brilliant Shruti Jain hosting and producing the @race-regency.bsky.social podcast!

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