I wonder what George W Bush is painting today? American warlords love a good retirement and rebrand. I can’t help but to think how in ten years Trump will garner all kinds of sympathy and support.
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
Everyone on Twitter right now.
I don’t know who the dog or the flea is with this Trump and Musk saga but who knew a breakup could be this glorious.
I am routinely in awe of my friends. Get your copy today.
Is there a better way to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility than by reading @earthtokb.bsky.social to start off your class and meeting? I think not!
“He/They in the Streets, They/ Them in the Sheets” 🤌🏾
I love to hear Black people cackle. Black joy in public is food for my soul.
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.
I would support this! We need to primary the dinosaurs.
“The government called for the university … to place the school’s Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
I did a thing a few weeks ago. It was great being in conversation with Tashara Parker on her podcast Loud and Clear.
youtu.be/vZwdD3vz0w0?...
Aaron Pierre telling Shump “it’s okay I practice that shot” 🤣 iykyk
I feel like I'm binge watching the final season of Democracy.
First Joy Reid and now Lester Holt, the racial retrenchment will be televised.
So when do we take to the streets?
Monday thought:
Colonialism is the coin of the realm. Shame on all of us.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
I thought I knew how to better self-regulate the second time around, but here I am. Geezus!
Feckless--as a private institution in this state, we had the real possibility ( should've been commitment) to holding a line or Lead On like our strategic plan suggests. We folded.
References to TCU’s efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, have disappeared from prominent positions on the university’s website, including a highly visible spot on its homepage and in the “About TCU” section.
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I love teaching David Walker's Appeals (1829). His repudiation of slavery is the perfect way to bring in BHM in my Survey of African American lit course.
"The whites have always been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, various and blood-thirsty set of beings, always seeking after power and authority."
Had a great day at the Dallas Museum of Art. They had a great exhibit on Frida Kahlo, and I got a chance to take my graduate students to see Imani Perry discuss her new book Black in Blues.
Usually America at least tries to hide its commitment to empire and colonialism. Trump, wants to make these things more explicit. From Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and Greenland to South Africa, he is our colonialist-in-chief.
I'm taking to the swamps, and I hope this space can be my maroon.
Cover of What Had Happened Was by Therí Alyce Pickens. Cover appears to be a watercolor canvas with an orangish background, speckled with brown. A series of brown figures in sillhouette appear on the right side of the cover. They seem to be whispering to each other.
Read a free sample of "What Had Happened Was," a new collection of poetry by Therí Alyce Pickens which investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling.
https://buff.ly/3DP2f60
