My brother was deported for being in possession of marijuana.

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Congrats, Dr. Mollie Godfrey. Her article, "Race, Space, and Celebrating Simms: Mapping Strategies for Black Feminist Biographical Recovery," has been published in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies! Co-authored with Seán McCarthy from WRTC. ow.ly/e6VO50Lj5TO

Exciting news! My contribution to this collection focuses on teaching a course on race and publishing.

Weeping as I walk thru the airport. Damn this country that says it loves immigrants and refugees. It treats us worse than animals. Do not look away. When will you make it stop? Shut it all down. ALL OF IT. 🥵😡🤬

Portia doesn’t wear outfits. She wears jumpscares.

Truly honored for this moment to recieve The Presidential Citizens Medal. Thank you America and thank you President Donald J. Trump My statement. #January6th

COVER AND WEBPAGE REVEAL! I am so excited to share that The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, co-edited with the amazing Vinh Nguyen, will be out next month! We are honored to have a piece from Mohamad Hafez’s Baggage Series grace the cover. routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

We are beyond excited to share one of our newest acquisitions: For My People / Elizabeth Catlett (illustrations) and Margaret Walker (text) This magnificent folio sized volume features Walker’s well known poem alongside six color lithographs by Catlett.

The US-Mexico border wall at Friendship Park before being replaced in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on February 16, 2023. US authorities announced that they resumed wall construction this week at the iconic Friendship Park. AFP Photo #border

If you’re at #NeMLA2023, I’d love to see you at the panel The Body That Remains (Sat at 1:15) I’ll be talking about Black filmmaker/writer Kathleen Collins and her daughter Nina Collins, who ensured her mother’s legacy by editing and posthumously publishing her work.

This is my Cancellable Opinion but the only people we should be listening to in the Great Debate Over The Future of Humanities are grad students as they are the ones who are actually experiencing all the threats to their future

Been seeing all the wonderful graduates and their videos. This one. 🥹🥹🥹🥰

What a lovely unpacking of the skills and strengths I’m seeing in students, too.

BREAKING: An eight-year-old girl died in Border Patrol custody in Texas on Wednesday, CBP officials confirmed tonight. “The child and her family were in custody at the Harlingen Station where she experienced a medical emergency." Our story: latimes.com/politics/story…

“One of the developments we’re really excited about is creating a new grant-funded summer internship program where students will provide transition support to recently arrived refugee families.” jmu.edu/news/2023/04/1…

Breaking update: Mother of Panamanian girl who died in BP custody on Wednesday said they were detained over a week and that requests for an ambulance were denied repeatedly, including on the day her daughter, Anadith, died. apnews.com/article/border…

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BREAKING: The government is forcing all asylum seekers to initiate their process through the glitchy CBP One Mobile App. The app's Haitian Creole is "worse than Google Translate," our Haitian Creole Team lead Laura Wagner recounts in a new article by Rest of World. 🧵

Nobody intervened to help a boat at sea level. After hours of surveillance before it sank, somebody decided to let 750 people drown.