A week from today on 3/10 @nu_africana will host a screening of On Becoming A Guinea Fowl in honor of International Women’s Day. This event was organized by our Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Feminist Studies who is teaching a class on #africanfilm this semester. Join us!
Our postdoctoral fellow is teaching a new class about African Film this semester. This warms my heart and reminds me of my days teaching Cinema Francophone at BC as well as when I took a class like it as a Penn undergrad. news.northeastern.edu/2026/01/30/a...
"I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art." --Toni Morrison
Ahhh love Lisa and her mom (Sylvia), and her sister Alison too! They are are trailblazing for Black film in Boston, so grateful for them 🖤
Thank you for amplifying, I appreciate you 🙏🏾
On Wednesday 2/25, @nu_africana will host a special screening of the award-winning documentary Daughters followed by a discussion with the producer, director, one of the men featured in the film, colleagues who work on #massincarceration Please join us @Northeastern @NUCSSH
February 18th is one of my favorite days of #blackhistorymonth on this day in 1931 and in 1934 the world was blessed with the genius of #ToniMorrison and #AudreLorde happy heavenly birthday to these icons 💜
Thank you Prof. Saida Grundy for this eye opening tribute to #JesseJackson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Photo of bell hooks, wearing a scarf and holding a mic, with colorful painting behind her. Text says "Feminist thinking teaches us all how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life." ― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics Photo by Alex Lozupone (Tduk), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, October 2014
"Feminist thinking teaches us all how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life." ― bell hooks from "Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics" (bookshop.org/a/7256/97811...)
#CiteBlackWomenSunday
#TeachTruth
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
I get that everyone who is in the know knows this already but I am quite happy for a publication to be surfacing it again, especially for readers who may not be aware
“It’s his same old con—doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better.” —Michelle Obama, 2024 DNC Convention Speech
“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. See, his limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happened to be Black.” —Michelle Obama
“Word-work is sublime...because is it generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life.” --Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993
Inspired by #ToniMorrison this #BlackHistoryMonth I am focusing on “doing my work” without distractions. To that end I will be doing the #1000 words a day #writingchallenge again. Join me! 1020 words today.
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Acrually…unless you are an indigenous person.
A caregiving social movement IS political.
Timely classroom resource.
Mapping Deportations offers data visualizations & a timeline on how history of anti-immigrant legislation & racism have always been intertwined, back to 1803 law in response to Haitian Revolution.
Let us know how you use the site.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ma...
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
I spent several weeks this fall visiting elite liberal arts colleges, on the theory that these small, wealthy schools—with a singular focus on undergraduate education and almost no federal research money to threaten—are best poised to weather the crisis in higher education. Here's what I learned:
"[A poem] is an opportunity...to replace a system of worth based on power and capital with something else. Poetry is a place where writers go not to deposit meaning, but to seek it out." (Tracy K. Smith, Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, 151)
"But please carry with you the idea that a poem is an invitation to step outside this loop of habit and haste, and, for a time, to cease jockeying..."
"Taste alone as an arbiter of worth us unreliabe. Often it bends to the reader's desire to feel comfortable, safe, and in control as opposed to startled or even discomfited beyond the consolation of the known." (148)
"Where do poems come from? From struggle. From feeling lost. From needing to better understand or better accept or better believe the terms of life and reality. A poem is what the poet makes of these forms of unrest."
"...the experience of reading is, ideally, an act of co-activation , even of co-creation---a matter of feeling, thinking, and harmonizing across space and time..."
I just finished reading Tracy K. Smith's "Poetry in Perilous Times" and know that I will be thinking (and writing and teaching) about it for a very long time. Some highlights...
"Every poem is an invitation to its reader and writer to pay closer, fuller, and more courageous attention."
