.moyazb's term "misogynoir" is officially being added to Merriam-Webster's dictionary 👏🏾🎉 news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/0…

The deadline is today!!!!

Last night I cried because I was so proud of Beyoncé. Someone delete tik tok off of my phone so I can recalibrate.

I’m excited to announce that this fall I’ll be joining the faculty at UW-Milwaukee as an Assistant Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies after an interesting year out west!

Let me offer this: if Janelle Monáe’s sexually liberated music + imagery make you uncomfortable, consider the possibility that it’s because of something unreconciled within you and what you feel you’re owed based on earlier eras in their career. It’s not because of her.

Can someone explain the psychology behind why I can’t look away from people rolling shit down the stairs on tik tok.

Me waiting for my Spill invite so I can escape this place SPILL

The forthcoming Brandy Christmas album is my Roman Empire

NWSA feels so quiet! Who else is here?

Every university in the world should be condemning this. Staying silent now, and waxing lyrical about 'decolonising the curriculum' later, is all-round moral cowardice.

I think professors need to lighten up when it comes to generative AI, particularly from a Black Studies perspective. In my estimation Blackness is and has always been a form of technology.

The concept of Tracy Chapman makes me cry? In the best way?

You don’t have to be nice or civil about ending a genocide. The idea that people who are actively funding a genocide have any moral authority to demand civility is ridiculous. Civil people don’t create mass graves! Civil people don’t give weapons to those creating mass graves!

Someone on tiktok said, “they’re messing with the Sandy Hook generation”. And that sentiment has reverberated in my head all morning. Lived through the thoughts and prayers of an elementary school shooting just to be brutalized by cops in college. Fucking crazy.

“what struck me most about those who are protesting is how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneity, the restraint. they waited and waited for justice. and it didn’t come. no one talks about that...” - Toni Morrison

Thank you for uplifting my work. It’s so true and it’s so fucking exhausting. I hope more people will pick up this line of research inquiry in other fields and areas, because it happens to all of us!