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The increase of fact-checking in real time has been wild

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Everybody else from UMich has already posted pictures of the amazing installation by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh so I will, too. Also: Girl, I’m *trying*

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I’m just a girl repeatedly checking her email to see if the university president has finally decided we’re going online.

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@surlybassey One time I said no (I don’t want to exchange my window away for your middle seat!) The guy was in the row in front of us and they held hands over the back of the seat until a flight attendant made them stop. 🥴

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If your diversity hiring program doesn’t have a parallel retention program, then I don’t know what you’re doing.

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To be fair, the concept of multiple, overlapping/interlocking identities has a LONG intellectual history. Before Patricia Hill Collins there was the Combahee River Collective and before them Fran Beale and Pauli Murray and before them people like Frances EW Harper and AJ Cooper.

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Just to be clear: DO NOT CALL THE COPS ON YOUR STUDENTS. Jfc. Policy is to ask them to mask and then if they refuse dismiss class. It seems like it will be treated as a student conduct disciplinary matter.

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@surlybassey If my students this semester in Intro to African American Studies learn one thing I hope it is this. Racism is not about individual feeling or even intent. It has particular histories and consequences.

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I have a new essay out in @feministstudies on how the reading lists and bibliographies in But Some of Us Are Brave were part of broader recovery practices that helped to establish Black women's studies and Black feminism in the academy!

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@madisontayt_ There was also some story about a guy who hadn’t realized he could wait for the water to warm up before getting in the shower

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Kerrygold butter is colonization is not something I had on my Twitter bingo card but here we are.

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4 years

Maybe if you’re on a search committee you shouldn’t subtweet a specific applicant? I dunno. Just a thought.

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3 years

Speaking of Discourse, I’ve seen the, “It is indefensible to hire people who already have TT jobs” convo happening again. This implies that the job market crisis is the fault of these individual scholars and not like… decades of slashing funding and adjunctification.

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The thing to understand here is that colleges sicced two of the most violent and racist police departments (NYPD and LAPD) on their students. They know what these forces are capable of, how they operate, and they did it anyways.

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The Target Pride collection continues to be deliciously unhinged.

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Really excited to share this piece I wrote about the intersection of race and abortion rights for @madebyhistory

Perspective | Despite antiabortion campaigns, Black feminists support abortion rights

They reject claims about "Black genocide" because they see abortion rights as crucial to liberty.

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Every academic I have talked to this week has expressed their fear about the looming and increasingly likely possibility of another Kent State. How can anyone see these students protesting genocide and want to respond with more violence?

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A girl on the bachelor just said their babies would have blue eyes but she clearly doesn’t understand recessive genes #thebachelor

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@BlackBeltPhD It’s WILD. Calling down the national guard?! And now he wants NYPD to be his personal bodyguards????

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A little thread on Joan Gibbs, who was an incredible writer and activist and a pioneering Black lesbian feminist. I’ve had the unique pleasure of sitting with and writing about her work recently.

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RIP Joan Gibbs, co-founder Dykes Against Racism Everywhere, ACT UP Lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights, kind person, community treasure.

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All of my text threads, my Twitter, and the UMich Reddit right now:

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@farahbakaari This is so precious and lovely! And you look great in the yellow dress!

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@camillard I hadn’t realized this was how that first originated. Incredible.

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@surlybassey Ok so during the same era where the US government was using black entertainers to do public relations, they paid for a black theater company’s version of Porgy & Bess to tour Europe. But then NOT for them to visit Russia, so the USSR paid for them to come.

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@surlybassey The exceptional student who was waitlisted at Rice. I know why these stories are published every year, but I still roll my eyes.

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@imaniperry @surlybassey And the black cop/police chief (at least in some ways)!

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Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a @ctzns_schlrs Career Enhancement Fellowship! I’m so grateful for this time to work on my book manuscript on how a network of Black women built Black feminism in the 70s and 80s!

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@McCartney_NFL It's a misconception that all athletes have full rides. NCAA rules don't allow it. Some teams have 5 for 20 athletes. Most only partial.

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@McCartney_NFL Even full scholarships often don't cover books. Just wanted to be clear. Also Ivies don't have athletic scholarships.

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3 years

So now we’re not even feeding students?

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Myself and 28 other LCF Collegiate Fellow and Faculty Fellows have written this open letter regarding ongoing contraction negotiations with @geo3550 . You can also find it here:

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@surlybassey I know at least one black woman who was visiting faculty in the 80s. Her office was literally a closet.

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Individual scholars have coined specific terms but the intellectual history of what is now commonly called intersectionality is LONG and MANY have contributed to it.

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There are SO MANY reasons to want to move jobs. And no one owes you an explanation. It could be a partner thing but it could also be about toxic culture, lack of funding, the geographic location, plus care responsibilities.

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Oh we’re calling the Combahee River Collective “never much more than a book club”? Is that what we’re doing now? It’s too early for this nonsense.

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@McKellogs @cdchambs *whispers* everyone cries in grad school.

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@WrittenByHanna I’m so glad he didn’t go and tonight I got to hear him proudly say “Doja Cat!” as a correct response

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Gibbs also co-founded DARE (Dykes Against Racism Everywhere), which remains one of my favorite lesbian feminist group names.

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UMich Faculty: Sign this pledge to not take on struck labor during the @geo3550 strike:

Pledge not to take on struck GSI/GSSA labor at U-M

Add your name using this form: https://forms.gle/6wFmfvzabVzbPtD79 To share this pledge: https://bit.ly/GEOHoldTheLine Instructor Pledge not to take on struck GSI/GSSA labor at U-M March 7, 2023 To...

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This is antisemitism and it is horrific and terrifying. College students camping to protest genocide is not antisemitism.

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Metro Detroit synagogue targeted in antisemitic attack

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Who is out here advising their students to pick grad programs because of ONE faculty member? Because this is the exact opposite of the advice I give my students.

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My lilac bush bloomed while I was out of town!

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@surlybassey @JasMoneyRecords Ok but that is the crossover we deserve.

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3 years

Had students today tell me there are professors threatening their grades if they miss in person class. Even if they are symptomatic and waiting on test results. People have lost the plot.

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I'll never get over people suggesting that these kids, who are mostly asking for distance learning (read: still doing school) until they can be safe, just wanted to skip class

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@surlybassey I didn’t know it was also in a book! I just know his New Yorker essay:

“Porgy and Bess” in Russia

Truman Capote on the opera’s Leningrad première.

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How many pages about a Third World Lesbian softball team, in a chapter about Black lesbian feminist poetry, is too many pages?

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2 years

Monday is off to a good start. Look what I found in my mailbox!

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Not me getting a literal invitation to a photo shoot from the university DEI office. I shall not be conscripted into spicing up your website photos!

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No one is taking “your” job. It wasn’t “your” job to begin with. And scapegoating committees and individual scholars for the systemic crisis of the current academic job market helps no one.

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6 years

SAGE was founded by co-editors @PBell_Scott and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. It was the first journal devoted to the study of Black women and explicitly interdisciplinary. And it was published/housed at Spelman!

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It's #scholarsunday and I am remembering how much SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women meant to an entire generation of us budding scholars. First issue attached and one impt essay linked. Can I get a witness? @ABWHTruth #blacktwitterstorians

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When I was in Quaker school, Quaker schools still valued nonviolence and pacifism. My hs had a whole process to make sure ppl could register as conscientious objectors ffs

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A perfect example of how values become meaningless in elite private school culture. It is literally outrageous to expect a Quaker school to remove a "ceasefire" sign and the fact that they did makes "Quaker" as meaningful a designation here as Quaker Oats.

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So next time before complaining that someone leaving one position for another is a problem please remember that people are allowed to want better or different working and living conditions. There’s nothing wrong with that.

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@surlybassey My seminar “Writing Sex: Contemporary Black Women Writers” has The Color Purple and Sula and The Women of Brewster Place so I am secure in the knowledge that I am swindling no one. It’s my only “sexy” course title at the moment though.

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And NONE of those reasons (or any others) is an illegitimate reason to want to leave a position for another one. NONE.

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Every semester I bring my prized possession into my Black Feminisms course. This amazing poster of the African American Women on Defense of Ourselves statement is crucial artifact of black feminist organizing. @TheBarbaraSmith @smithcaringcirc

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@SPBPHD @theferocity Ok but this alternate version someone proposed seems like an upgrade:

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We need a reverse gender Only Murders In The Building where Whoopi Goldberg and Bette Midler solve mysteries with Zac Efron.

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Academia tends to require people to get outside offers for raises or partner hires or other negotiations. And don’t say that isn’t true. It is. And even then many schools and depts don’t see certain scholars as being “worth” these concessions.

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Since it’s almost February, please don’t ask black people to speak at your Black History Month events for free. Just don’t.

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@dem8z @tera Hopefully Hunter’s incredible work is actually cited in the forthcoming book this is excerpted from… otherwise…

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We have a massive labor crisis in academia right now. And some state legislatures are pushing to even further erode instructors’ protections. Creating more full-time positions that pay a living wage is the goal and I hope as workers can we can all advocate for better conditions.

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Just another state flagship throwing its reputation in the garbage.

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UNC Board of Trustees preemptively moving $2.3 million of UNC flex fund from DEI to… campus police 😑 Chair John Preyer calls DEI “divisiveness, exclusion, and indoctrination” 🙃🙃🙃

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So we went from this (left) to THIS (right). According to the College Board, Black Feminism as such just isn’t a thing?!

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Is “pretty much my entire city doesn’t have power because DTE is awful” an acceptable excuse for missing a writing deadline? Asking for me…

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Every time someone on NextDoor says that they wish Ann Arbor had stayed how it was back in the day, I bring up the racially restrictive covenant on my house/neighborhood and then they… still insist that things were better then. THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. #a2council

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And even beyond the assertion that refusing to hire people who already have TT jobs would fix a systemic problem (it won’t), y’all are really being messy. Even if you are well-intentioned.

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Students occupied the lawns for weeks when I was an undergrad in support of ethnic studies. Things did not escalate like this then! The university didn’t handle it great but they didn’t immediately start threatening to suspend people!

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So thankful for people like @dem8z and Mary Helen Washington, among others, for ensuring that "lost" Black women authors were available to read and taught again in classrooms!

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She was a the founder of AZALEA: A Magazine for Third World Lesbians and a member of the JEMIMA writers collective.

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Yet again, the historically black neighborhoods of Ann Arbor were gentrified in the 60s and 70s. So the idea that upzoning an area that has drive through banks and strip malls would somehow gentrify A2 is very confusing. #A2council

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There are a lot of policy beliefs that guide my voting choices. Luckily I can vote for a Ward 4 candidate who shares my values AND who has never 1) made excuses for another CM using slurs or 2) incorrectly claimed no constituents said they were harmed by it. #a2council

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There is too much going on for y’all to still be tweeting about Foucault.

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The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies is accepting applications for appointments at the rank of postdoc, assistant, and associate professor through NCID. Applications due in September. More info here:

LSA Collegiate Fellowship Programs | U-M LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity

lsa.umich.edu

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@iSmashFizzle My dog is an angel. She also once killed a whole pigeon in front of me. I feel your pain.

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Multiple elected officials in this tweet have been on the picket lines with GEO this week… so…

University of Michigan

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In recognition of #TransDayOfVisibility , @WashtenawCounty elected officials and leaders raised the transgender pride flag at the county's government building this morning in @AnnArbor . 🏳️‍⚧️

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@QueenMab87 It seems the bar is under the floor.

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I have been informed that the youth are calling it “Schlisselgate”

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@balagonline @ashoncrawley As soon as he said “we’ll call her Keisha” I knew what was coming

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Had a mini summer dinner with friends. This could be the cover of our cookbook one day.

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Plus some places will show their asses during negotiations and then maybe you’ll want to leave because it has become even more untenable to stay.

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I’m ONLY teaching texts from the 70s and 80s this semester: Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Cade Bambara, Gloria Naylor, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, plus Walker and Morrison. It’s been an amazing class so far!

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Re LRT: I am always flummoxed when students thank me for being so “kind” or “generous” for not punishing them for being ill or having a crisis. Like I’m sorry you have COVID, why are you apologizing to ME?!

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@IBJIYONGI Book marking this for later in the semester when I explain that DNA ancestry testing is a goddamn mess and they should all read some Dorothy Roberts, Kim Tallbear, and Alondra Nelson ASAP.

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Unfortunately, I tested positive for COVID on Friday after being exposed over Christmas. I have put on SO much makeup for zoom teaching today to try to not look how I feel.

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So last week university cases were 5% of the county’s total cases and this week we’re up to 25% of the county’s total cases. So…

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You’re gonna have Orgo night after this? Senior dinner? LitHum finals? After you sicced an army of NYPD on your own students? How can Columbia go on?

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I’m hearing that Ann Arborites are showing up with pizza, cookies, and hand warmers for students in line outside UMMA! #GoBlue #GoVote

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@Karnythia Kanye’s mom was a PROFESSOR. Geez, people.

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Someone left a free copy of “Lean In” outside of the Women’s Studies department and it feels like performance art.

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Today on campus from @THEBSU

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The apple galette turned out pretty decent!

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I don’t want to hear anything else about civility and safety on campus until the admin addresses the ongoing threats against my colleagues.

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President Shafik has called for the NYPD to retain a presence on campus until May 17th, days AFTER graduation. What on earth.

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@hunteryharris Press for this film keeps having almost nothing to do with the film. Astounding.

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Since we’re approaching Black History Month, just a quick reminder: DON’T ASK BLACK PEOPLE TO SPEAK AT YOUR EVENT FOR FREE.

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Azalea hosted two incredible Third World Lesbian Writers conferences in NYC in 1979 and 1980. Presenters included Audre Lorde, @TheBarbaraSmith , Anita Cornwell, Michelle Cliff, and others.

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@Karnythia I get it when it’s children, but I’ve had full ass adult couples try to get me to give up my window seat for their middle and then be AGGRIEVED when I wouldn’t n

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Great news: Dharma won the election for Ward 4 City Council!!! Shout out to all the canvassers, poll greeters, door knockers, and lit droppers who helped spread the word about this amazing candidate! #a2council

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@ztsamudzi Wow. She’s completely lost the plot.

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