Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋 @taoleighgoffe Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

8 months

THE BEST NEWS! 📚📚Such a pleasure to share the first look at the cover for my NEW BOOK. It’s called DARK LABORATORY and it’s on climate crisis coming to you from @doubledaybooks / @penguinrandom / @PenguinUKBooks / @HamishH1931 . @LaboratoryDark My dream publishing team🐧⚓️🧪

59

257

1K

Last Seen Profiles

@mvhir

@takoko_942

@LarrieStacia

@NonameTNameno

@simpbaekgu

@haki54118111536

@SofaBeltran11

@indeagor

@bokeplokalmalam

@TheKingMovHD

@TriforceZard

@furtissier

@stw_pdg

@Ubay52485920

@HollyWmedia

@sienawind2019

@vlad

@SheaJ21

@mo6nses

@airblueairline

@_163163

@imctc_fr

@clhebdo5

@UpHonestCapital

@UAM_Softball

@suadiBeaches

@KevinNapier1963

@MENTAIKO2215

@v_VelvetThundR

@HonMoses_Kuria

@KingKone64

@QueenPickle13

@DiianaLadron

@xiangxiang4478

@MrSheikh9713

@Speedy_ki0409

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

I finished my PhD at 26. I regret this. Take time off between grad school and undergrad. Live your life. Defer, read, work, explore, party, save, make art, sleep. Don’t rush. Grad school is not the safety net you think it is. The degree will be there when you’re done. Enjoy life!

2K

49K

303K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Oprah asked Toni Morrison, "is it true that sometimes people have to read over your work in order to understand it, to get the full meaning? She replied, “That, my dear, is called reading.”

51

8K

64K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence #ColumbiaUniversity which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..

628

7K

29K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

‘diversity’ is a white supremacist answer to a white supremacist problem

125

2K

18K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Toni Morrison was the best teacher because she didn’t ‘teach.’ She told us stories. Each class she was twenty minutes late, strolled in & would charm us with stories. Telling a good story was the lesson. So many academics could not tell a good story to save their life. Facts.

33

2K

18K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

a reminder that not all immigrants are minorities, some were in fact the supremacists in their home countries, global elite or not

46

2K

13K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

When Toni Morrison was my prof in college, she told us students not to trust those soundtracks designed to tell the audience how to feel with little violins 🎻and orchestras. So much of storytelling is sonic and can be manipulative.

95

1K

13K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

To the immigrants who say they have never experienced racism till they came to the US, consider that you may have been part of the dominant homogenous group inflicting supremacy against minorities in your ‘home country.’

53

3K

12K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

re-reading is reading, 📖 because (hopefully) you are a different person each time. the text changes because you have changed.

29

2K

11K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Hearing the words “I hear you” from authority figures is triggering AF. They don’t. They learned that in a diversity workshop.

18

2K

10K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

“Underrepresented” sounds like a random accident rather than what it is, the result of a deliberate plan of exclusion.

31

2K

10K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

universities have never been safe. the veil is being lifted. from sexual violence to hazing to censorship, there is so much hidden violence sanctioned and now ordered by administrators.

6

3K

9K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

climate crisis began in 1492, what is it that ppl don’t get about this?

71

1K

9K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

skin is a passport. epidermal citizenship.

28

1K

8K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

There should be a class called *Intro to Grad School* where they teach you all the things no one will tell you (and professors’ kids already know somehow)

110

644

7K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

unfortunately in graduate school the act of reading becomes oriented as an extractive practice and thus can easily lose its potential as a ritual of pleasure. sadly, reading becomes an act of harvesting or scavenging citations to cover bases and hedge bets.

63

960

7K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

“Diversifying” graduate student cohorts without recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty of color who work on relevant topics who can teach and advise incoming students is unethical.

15

1K

7K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

Chattel slavery transformed modern finance into what it is, and thus every subsequent act of financialization must be understood as a racializing one.

26

1K

6K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

What’s the single author you own the most books by?

10K

501

5K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

1 year

I can't stop thinking about this book.

98

716

5K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Funny how men professors pretend they are incompetent at “administrative” work so that women professors and staff inevitably have to pick up the pieces, until it’s time to become a director or a dean. 🤦🏽‍♀️

47

595

5K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

citing ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ and then using pedagogy to oppress

12

850

5K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

“Asian” as a banner and a term of solidarity and strategic essentialism is important, but the specificity of which Asians are being targeted and are associated w the precarity of sex work and why is also important

6

771

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

I don't understand what people mean when they say a book is dense....What is light reading? Why do people expect reading to be easy?

38

220

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

The history of the Caribbean Chinese is one that has been muted and mutilated. This is my #AfroAsia , my #BlackPacific told through family photo albums.

45

931

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

bell hooks, 🕯2021 has taken too much from us her essay “eating the other” truly informs me as a scholar everyday “Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture.”

10

839

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

I will admit I sat in silence through most of high school and college, & as a Black girl at Princeton it was an alienating experience. Now a decade later I am a professor and teach for that student who did all the reading and is working up the courage to raise her hand. 🙋🏽‍♀️

18

185

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

one of the problems with diversity training folks keep pushing up against, but won’t address, is that you can’t train people to care about other people. 🤷🏽‍♀️

30

813

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

i never said my goal was equality. for me black feminist praxis is not about ‘a seat at the table’ next to a white man; it’s another galaxy where there is no concept of a table and there are others forms of communing not based on exclusion, which is what the table metaphor is btw

7

731

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

when representation is the only aspiration, it ensures that all firsts will be lasts.

10

735

4K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

be affiliated with an institution that arrests, intimidates, endangers, and censors its students. Until the students are reinstated, apologised to, and have their records expunged, I will #boycott giving lectures @Columbia or Barnard. I commit to donating the money I was awarded

31

409

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

what disturbs me is how quickly the world can forget centuries of anti-Asian violence, each time the cycle of forgetting is the only certain thing

10

534

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

British colonialism is not the only colonialism. European colonialism is not the only colonialism.

9

397

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

so often the price of inclusion is allowing yourself to be used as a pawn against your own people or those you should be in solidarity with

11

622

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

5 years

Every PhD program should have a required course on the ‘Ethics and Politics of Citation’ in the first year. Empty citations, namedropping, and theft are common malpractice in academia. It’s sad, often intentional and gendered.

31

387

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

Im tired of the lengths we have to go to in academic writing to prove something is “missing” from history when it was clearly violently erased. Missing is passive. “Lost histories” - “forgotten histories” are passive. All denied histories.

8

494

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

for the position to charitable causes in Gaza as is the request of the students. Both the silence and silencing of comfortable tenured and tenure-track faculty has been appalling, though not surprising. It is loud. But the student protestors are louder and being heard by..

12

283

3K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

In the diaspora, there is always a silence between the generations, sometimes it is so loud it keeps secrets from the future.

22

442

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

colonialism has no imagination; it is the annihilation of worlds, slow and fast genocide

6

558

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Some profs ask what can be done to ‘diversify’ the faculty because they have tried everything, the answer they don’t want to hear is simple *retire.*

16

296

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

When we are denied permission to write critically about our families as a door into colonial histories because it is dismissed as “me-search”, it is often by the same structures who denied our ancestors’ humanity.

8

421

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

don’t trust people who expect your labor without acknowledging that they are depending on you

5

428

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

being a Black woman is constantly being told to walk before you can run by people who will never understand you have been running for your life, your whole life.

14

427

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

it’s unethical to admit PhD students to programs where there are no tenured faculty in that subject qualified or willing to advise

13

134

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

Unprompted a white Ivy League professor told me to my face (a Black Ivy League professor) that Cornell, where I work, is not really an Ivy League school. Whiteness is intent on resetting the fake metrics it creates. And it should but also…leave Black people out of this. Thx.

33

159

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Anti-Asian hate is not “un-American,” it’s the very formation of the US as a gatekeeping nation, designed to keep Chinese out, not Mexicans. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 lasted till WWII. Abolish ICE, part of this racist immigration legacy.

10

425

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Doing Black Studies without the Caribbean? You're not, & you're a nationalist. Theorists of Caribbean origin: Du Bois, Lorde, Malcolm X, Simone Browne, Fanon, Nella Larsen, Stokely Carmichael, Wynter, Marley, Gilroy, Robin Kelley, Dorothy Roberts, Rodney, Hall, Adrian Piper....

27

370

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Does a WOC ever get to be the charming absent-minded professor? 👩🏽‍🏫👩🏿‍🎓

58

185

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

starting a new job? write a letter to yourself that is your retention plan. know what you require to stay and thrive. dont accept anything less or people will choose for you.

16

313

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

the world 🌏right now. Lip service is great. What are tenured faculty willing to give up? For freedom fr Gaza to the West Bank to Congo to Haiti, this blueprint of organized dissent matters. While I’ve personally been treated well and been generously supported by staff in my…

6

224

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

If you’re starting grad school make sure you have a *support group.* There are no guarantees it will end up being your cohort. So make sure you’re not trying to do it alone. No one ever graduated doing it alone.

11

289

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

some good news!! I got a fellowship for next year to write a book on race, ecology, and the Caribbean!! excited to be able to share more about it soon. 🤗

75

46

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

When POC say our histories are missing from textbooks 📚 that is not an invitation to people not of color to get six figure book deals to write our histories for us. ✍🏽

6

357

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

diaspora is often defined by disaster; this is why we mourn together beyond the borders of the nation-state

5

329

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

if you only knew how many academics of color are on the verge of quitting from day to day. the unbearable whiteness of colonial institutions

18

260

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

8 months

Capitalism loves disposability. Disposable income. Disposable goods. Disposable people. Disposable colonies.

7

658

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

1 year

Spice history is global economic history.

9

290

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

citation is a public declaration of who you intend to be accountable to, so the lack of citation of scholars of colors by certain white scholars writing on POC histories means exactly that

5

352

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

Across the country I’ve learned about college dorms designed after 1968 specifically to preclude the possibility of students congregating for protests. Those Columbia lawns are symbolic and pristine. They ought to be trampled and used for taking a stand.

7

229

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

unit at the climate school, I am all too aware that universities depend on the 4-year cycle of graduation to quell dissent. Finals and the relentless schedule are used to suppress any sort of gathering.

3

198

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

“Tonight you are all forgiven.” Oscar-winner 🇰🇷 Youn Yuh-jung on everyone who has mispronounced her name. 😅

2

166

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

If you let institutions define your success, they will always have the power to take it from you.

8

348

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Being interdisciplinary is knowing that multiple disciplines use the same keywords and mean totally different things.

13

177

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

This approach to production has deeply informed my sonic philosophy in the art I’m creating with attention to sound. None of it is a given. History is not a given. Ask the meta questions about who the maestro 👨🏼‍🏫 is 🎶

3

81

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

Since I have been called ‘illegible,’ for the interdisciplinary work I do, I will be starting a writing group called ‘the illegibles’ for all those who also ‘consent not to be a single being.’ 🙋🏾‍♀️✍🏽

64

80

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

Doxxing is commonplace as well as targeting by Fox News and vandalism in the places I have worked. Today I am learning from the Columbia students. Divest. Refuse. Retain the right to say NO. End the suffering in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Haiti…. Sincerely Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD

54

188

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

black feminist thinkers like #bellhooks are architects of thought, giving us the words to build worlds 🌌 and universes 🪐beyond the limited and violent imagination of white supremacy. they make possibility possible. the loss is intergalactic.

10

453

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

normalize being open to learning from those younger than you

12

254

2K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

My Spring 2021, a new course “Black and Indigenous Ecologies.”

13

162

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

some academics just describe things that already exist for a living, the bar is so low for certain people meanwhile others are asked to justify their humanity and existence w an academic argument we are not all doing the same job.

4

260

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Black studies is, in part, a meta-critique of the university itself; this is why it will continue to be isolated and underfunded. Black study threatens the very structure of the university endowment in its attention to racial capitalism.

6

352

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth ! May 1 is also #IndianArrival Day on the Caribbean island of 🏝 Grenada 🇬🇩 the spice isle. Lesser studied than the South Asian histories of Trinidad or Guyana, there are also vibrant #AfroAsian intimacies present, layered bitter & sweet.

11

436

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

I have been told twice in a week by copyeditors I shouldn’t use the terms that I use to describe my own identity — Afro-Asian, Jamaican Chinese — because it’s not official terminology. The gap between what they call us, and what we call ourselves. 🤦🏽‍♀️

32

161

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

Even if you are not a poet, try writing a poem for each chapter in progress, distilling the ideas, it will tell you what sort of dissertation or book you’re writing. 📚 free verse, sonnets, haiku, slam? poetry reveals to us so much about prose.

24

187

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

@sarik_xandra The time will come. 😊 Blossom and grow. Read, be curious, ask questions.

2

44

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

there is no syllabus that can save us.

5

213

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

how critical is your theory if someone has to be versed in critical theory to communicate with you?

6

226

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

and where my dad stood up as a student against the US invasion of Grenada. He was taught AND encouraged by professors Edward Said and Amiri Baraka. I don’t see those faculty on campus today. The air of conservatism is powerful and suffocatingly normalized.

5

141

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

so tired of explaining the history of racism to the people who created it

8

223

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Recognize that you cannot decolonize the curriculum if you can’t recognize that not everyone has the capacity to teach Black and Indigenous texts fully

6

209

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

If the anti-racist curricular rollouts are only for students and don’t include educating the faculty AND administrators, then what is taking place but the restructuring of racism?

6

296

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

it has never been more clear to me that we are all reading to save our lives

5

193

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

academia is performance studies

10

156

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

So much of the curriculum champions these principles. Separate from my art residency, over the past year, I have been asked to give no less than 6 talks at Columbia / Barnard (architecture, music, art, digital humanities) where in each I encouraged students to grapple with

1

105

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

The students are giving a masterclass in what it means to apply to the core values. Protect privacy. Protecting one another by masking outdoors during the ongoing pandemic. Mutual aid. Leading by example. And studying for finals!

6

146

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

So, you don’t have to wear a mask if there is room at your local hospital for you to die?? 😷

18

225

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

If you study a group of people you have no ties to and can’t answer the simple question ‘Why?’ and this makes you defensive, then you are NOT doing the work you think you’re doing.

7

199

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

what Columbia has represented for 270 years, predating the Nation. From the genocide of King George to the namesake Christopher Columbus to the Manhattan Project (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Oppenheimer) medical school experimentation in stolen dead bodies,

4

127

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

F cancel culture; it is a distraction from the true exclusion produced by the nation-state: cancelled passports, subjects, cancelled boyhoods, girlhoods, childhoods of Black citizens around the globe. This is my grandfather in the midst of Chinese Exclusion in 1934. 🇯🇲

8

261

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

I can be paid an honorarium to say the radical but really obvious things about the university’s role in genocide, historic and present. Where is the ethical commitment to change? I grew up knowing a Columbia with the tradition of protest in 1968, against South African Apartheid,

2

128

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Black study is not extra reading; it is the argument. The reading is not optional. The history is not supplemental. The Haitian 🇭🇹 Revolution is not separable from the unraveling of the word right now because the definition of value and who is considered human is in crisis.

5

262

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

the labs named for the Caribbean island Nevis where Alexander Hamilton was born. Displacement and gentrification ongoing in the architecture of that campus. I’m aware my labor as a Black woman and a Professor is outsourced, as a bandaid. Without structural commitment to change,

3

110

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

if you are just beginning to connect the dots of racial capitalism and it's leading you to the genesis of ecological crisis, YOU don't actually have to write the book or dissertation on this, Black feminists already did long ago...

2

210

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

1 year

Couldn’t be happier to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York! #DarkLab 🧪🧪 moves to #NYC the Upper East Side! Enjoying my new (masked) subway 🚇 commute! ✌🏽 exciting events on the horizon! Stay tuned. 🌺 visit us!

122

57

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

The world needs more anticapitalist histories. C.L.R. James told us - The only place where Black people did not revolt is in the pages of capitalist historians. Born on this day Jan 4, 1901 in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. 🇹🇹

23

289

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

4 years

Finishing your PhD shouldn’t depend on winning external fellowships. Universities should provide funding for what they know is avg time to degree based on decades of data.

3

140

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

6 months

One day I will write a book on how the Ivy League is ruining the world. This is my conclusion after 15 years being taught in or teaching for Ivy League institutions (Princeton/Yale/Cornell). I am happy to be employed at a state institution, CUNY,

3

128

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

3 years

👋🏽 Hi, Im looking for a couple of remote part-time research assistants, PhD program enrolled. Please email your cv to my Cornell email address if you think you might be right for the job. 🧪🎮📀

36

824

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

1 year

European colonialism is a centuries-long campaign of discrediting knowledge systems and then repackaging them for profit.

7

392

1K

Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋

@taoleighgoffe

2 years

Hi, new followers! 👋 Toni Morrison was my prof in undergrad; she was transformative. Tony Blair was my prof in grad school, not so much. I'm a prof now myself. Years ago I wrote an essay on the gems I learned from being her student. Editors weren't interested then. One day?

14

82

1K