I had to go to the ER today for a badly dislocated elbow and got asked about my periods and sexual activity while trying not to vomit from the pain. Just another reminder of the loss of bodily autonomy.

Pollution and other environmental challenges disproportionately affect marginalized communities and people of color. Our new Smithsonian Environmental Justice Fellowships will explore how to create an equitable and sustainable future for all. fellowships.si.edu/EJF

(1/6) Over 2,000 descendants of Somerset Place’s enslaved community and enslavers reunited #OnThisDay at the 1986 Somerset Homecoming to celebrate culture, family, and life. The idea began with Dorothy Spruill Redford, a private citizen and descendant of the enslaved community.

I read Redford’s book, Somerset Homecoming in Blair LM Kelley, PhD ‘s grad seminar and I plan to teach it to my graduate students.

Heart broken: I went to Costco for mooncakes today and there were none.

Congrats @hannahk8s !!!

Great thread and fruit for thought on the hierarchies of knowledge production within public history and academia.

Today, we address a historic injustice by returning the Benin Bronzes, magnificent examples of Benin's culture and history. Through this repatriation, we acknowledge a legacy of cultural theft and do our part to return African culture to Africans. Shown here: bronze plaque.

There's a vicious and intentional violence in how America treats poor people. I've been thinking about how to frame the intimate pain caused by "structural" inequalities in my own writing to make that visible.

Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/

I’m going to say the obvious: The reversal of affirmative action will not result in a “flood” of Asian American students into elite universities long term—it will only change the goal posts of success to benefit white supremacy.

The system of parenting that creates Asian American model minorities is often emotionally and physically abusive. The pursuit of an elite education was not worth the cycles of self-destructive behavior ingrained into me by a culture that only valued narrowly defined success.

Congratulations!!!!! 🎉🍾🎈 so great to see you all do it!

My grad students are AMAZING!!!

I wrote a thing!