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In this talk, Dr. Alexander begins by identifying a disconnect between role playing games like D&D, and Black communities, but also the real potential for such gaming structures to enable different acts of maiming, healing, and resistance. +

Note that you can watch the livestream of Dr. Alexander's talk at youtube.com/watch?v=sZa5q5… We are also taking questions for Q&A at that site.

AADHum plug! We're launching a summerlong Twine workshops/workgroup! We'll be talking creative nonfiction, digital scholarly publishing, & how to develop long and short interactive projects in Twine, with a focus on reimagining the representation of marginalized

We're on audience questions! Online people can ask questions on the livestream at youtube.com/watch?v=sZa5q5… First question regards producing a tabletop version of this work. Focuses on UNO flip as an UNO remix. Alexander notes work of our colleague Andrew W. Smith, who develops

#ICYMI in today's Univ. of Maryland Today e-newsletter, Henry Willis—PSYCTerps assistant professor—has been awarded over $250K to spend the next 2 years creating a free app specifically made for, and in close collaboration with, Black youths. Learn more at go.umd.edu/willisapp

🌱REGISTER NOW for Tuesday's “Kinship & (Be)Longing: Confronting Slavery's Archive through Critical #BlackDH”, a #DigitalDialogues roundtable with the Keywords for Black Louisiana [LifexCode] team [Ellie Palazzolo Leila K. Blackbird 🪶⚜️ @jmjafrx]! ✨Sign up ⇢ bit.ly/ddsp24-K4BL-c✨

We are so so SO looking forward to welcoming these folk to MITH & AADHum this week. Join @jmjafrx + the Keywords for Black Louisiana team for a meeting of big minds n' big hearts, doing the scholarship our souls need today more than ever. In person on Tues. 4/3 @ 5:15 |

YIKES! Correction. This the part where I notice that tomorrow is 4/23, not the date below. Oops but, also, is it even my fault that April has been like two months long? 🤷🏽‍♀️ Tues. 4/23 @ 5:15 in MITH (Hornbake 0301)

And we're off! @jmjafrx is schematizing the (amazing) LifexCode network of labs, projects, and initiatives. Today we are learning about Keywords for Black Louisiana, a project to produce a scholarly edition that actively attends to Black voices and needs—past and present +

Say it again and again. Understand a mandate for research and community partnership ⇢ Leila Blackbird: "Nothing about us without us" 🔥

I can't say enough about how excited I am to hear this talk— and to emerge ready to drop the word 'sferics' in regular conversation! But really, how often do you get to listen to the atmosphere and its objects, its electricity, its lightning... +