Baltimore, I love you! But I’m pleased to share that I accepted a tenure-track position in African American & African Studies at UC Davis, starting Fall 2024. Still feels surreal. Long live my brother O!
The chiropractor really told me that because I’m Black, my bones are naturally denser than other ‘races.’ When I asked what he based that off of, things got awkward lol. Needless to say I’m getting a new chiropractor
Defended my dissertation today… Excited to be PhinisheD! Thank you to my tribe, writing groups, colleagues, baristas & everyone else who helped me along the way! Excited for the next chapter!
Got my first interview for a TT position Tuesday. Wish me luck & any advice is helpful. Ain’t no manual for this when you’re the first in ya family 🤞🏿✌🏿
Not to play oppression Olympics but I honestly thought “first gen” meant first in your family to graduate college, not first to earn a PhD. Color me shocked to learn this today lol
@kangmunir
He’s not. That article relies on data from a racist study conducted in 1960 suggesting that Black & white people’s bodies are innately different
Blessed to see 34! My Mom died at this very age so I’ve always thought about how much, or little, she was able to live & see. Making this the year of intentions✌🏿
Being the first in your family to graduate college is hard. Telling folks I received my degree conferral has only added more confusion 😭. Anyway, I’m officially Dr. Johnson. Time to celebrate for the next few weeks ✌🏿🎉
Big sister & I often discuss the fear & hope of living past age 34–the age our mother was when she passed. Sis is 34 and currently battling COVID. Please send positive energy her way. It’ll surely be felt
How will I remember my PhD experience? My best friend was murdered 2 weeks after I started my program in 2017, and his killer was convicted today—less than 2 weeks before graduating. Still searching for meaning & missing my dawg
Grades weren’t good enough to get into Berkeley & now I’m giving a talk there. Many thanks to
@EderUmmadum
for the invitation!Excited to come back home on this business trip!
Planned to pull a chapter due to lack of sources on my subject who died 20 years ago. I recently found their partner online, shared my research & offered to buy them dinner. They saved EVERYTHING on their widow & is giving me all the documents. Yall have no idea how juiced I am
Honored to be part of Yale’s History of Science & Medicine Fall 2023 Colloquium Series. Forever grateful as this will be my first colloquium talk. Looking forward to the feedback & dialogue. From East Oakland to giving talks at Ivy leagues. Somebody pinch me
I am hella excited to announce that I accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dept of the History of Medicine & the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Cheers to new beginnings
@ihmjhu
Since everybody seems to be on Emily Oster's neck about "Pandemic Amnesty," let's go back a few years and ask whether she deserves "We Should Let Africans die of AIDS Because Treating AIDS Patients Is Too Expensive Amnesty"
Her TED Talk from 2007:
At one point I didn’t think I’d see 25, now I celebrate turning 33 today. Life really comes at you fast & im enjoying each day more since I started appreciating simple things. Hella excited for this next year!
Take a look into Professor Antoine Johnson's class 'Hip Hop in Urban America' at UC Davis, where he teaches how music is a bridge for understanding important social issues.
#Rightnowish
(From
@KQEDarts
)
Today is officially my final day as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins. Can’t express how much I love Baltimore & how thankful I am for my time there. Onwards & upwards ✌🏿
Getting tired of America’s fetishization of impoverished black for feel-good stories. Let’s not get lost in the Kinlaw family’s perseverance & fight to end systemic/structural inequality that creates these conditions he describes.
Sharing the good news that History of Medicine postdoc Dr. Antoine Johnson has been selected as one of only ten scholars inducted into the inaugural postdoctoral class of the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society.
Congrats
@AJohnsonHist
!
I'm hella excited to assign my friends' articles/chapters for this Intro to the History of Medicine class. Anyone else tryna get on this syllabus and maybe drop by for the discussion on their work?
One year ago today
@AAIHS
granted me the opportunity to present in front of Robin D. G. Kelley at their 2020 conference. Immediately afterwards everything shut down. Grateful for this memory & the relationships built that weekend
Pleased to share that I am co-convening a conference in Baltimore with my homegirl-comrade, Dr. Jasmine Blanks Jones, from October 5-8. Submissions due 5/15. DM, text or email me if you have any questions!
Congratulations to my comrade
@AyahNerd
on being this year’s recipient of the
@aahmhistmed
Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award! Black-to-Black winners, baby!
#AAHM24
My niece called me devastated that she got accepted into every college she applied to except her top choice. These are new problems I’m not used to. Any recommendations on how to console a 17 year old in these situations?
Black people played a huge role in freeing themselves. Kill the rhetoric of Lincoln being the great emancipator. Read Vincent Harding’s “Soldiers of God’s Wrath”
@Steez_HH
Given how he predicted homeboy’s moves, broke him down & gassed the track, this might go down as the best diss track of all time. It ain’t get messy until aubs brought up his family. And he even warned him there lol
Called out Black for the rest of the day & cancelled all academic meetings. Compartmentalizing what’s happening to us in this country is more violence & we can’t normalize this shit
Writing a book chapter, an article for an academic audience and one for a public-facing audience. Y’all ain’t seen code switching until you read these lol
It fees like every student & faculty member I know have hit a collective wall of exhaustion. This business-as-usual approach in a pandemic ain’t cuttin it
In the last year my mind went from thinking I’m gonna write the best dissertation known to man, to “the dissertation isn’t a book. Just get it done.” Is that common? Or a result of covid?
A militia group marches up 7th St. in downtown Louisville. They wouldn’t identify their group, but I know I’ve seen some here before.
#BreonnaTaylor
#Louisville
@WDRBNews
October 9th is always hard. Glad I made it back home to visit the cemeteries after missing last year. Happy birthday to my beautiful Mother & rest peacefully to the best friend anyone could ever ask for. I have the two best guardian angels
Excited to put on this 🔥🔥🔥 event w/
@_r_johanna
on the Young Lords’ takeover of Lincoln Hospital & their contributions to american public health. Join us Wednesday for a convo w/ my brother
@compa_cmartinez
,
@sreverby
& Young Lords veteran Cleo Silvers!
@DragonflyJonez
We all know Pac’s affiliations with Suge & MOB Pirus. Dude had Pac sayin ‘cuz’ while using his voice artificially. I’m sure Kendrick wanted to slap him when he heard that
Picked up a 40 hr/week temp job that pays well but has absolutely no relevance for my dissertation or research interests. Gotta do what you gotta do to provide for your family, but I also think my decision speaks to the limitations of stipends for PhD candidates
Submitted an article today! Not sure what will happen or how long until it’s out in the world, but it feels good to overcome that fear. Onward & upward
ima start an independent study tracing the epistemology of young folks referring to Black PEOPLE as "the blacks." first question: who raised you? looking for generous donations to fund this study
Happy 45th birthday Phonte
Whether he's rapping or singing, he never misses. Him dropping one of my favorite verses of this year 20+ yrs in the game is the epitome of longevity.
Drop your favorite Phonte album or tracks below 👇
Excited to attend
#OAH23
this week and have a roundtable discussion with the homies
@AyahNerd
@byeliseam
on our syllabus on anti-Black racism in medicine. be sure to stop by!
And that’s a wrap! Thank you to one of THE OGs in the history of race in medicine, Dr.
@KeithWailoo
for a memorable week on his groundbreaking research. And thank you
@jhuafricana
&
@JHUmedhum
for sponsoring the events. Til next time
@oni_blackstock
Can’t help but think of the anti-Black racism Haitians experienced in early 80s with AIDS & myths of the disease ‘originating’ in Central Africa. System remains as racist today as it was 40 years ago
Baltimore, I love you! But I’m pleased to share that I accepted a tenure-track position in African American & African Studies at UC Davis, starting Fall 2024. Still feels surreal. Long live my brother O!
@breakingmkts
BLM, a movement, can't stab people. Please don't conflate someone associated with the Movement for Black Lives' actions with an entire movement (strong emphasis on 'movement').