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All the people who are going to miss out on these BEYONCÉ tix cause y’all don’t read instructions 🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

.Angel Reese spoke handling the criticism she's received: "I want to take on that role of being the Black woman that's going to stand up for the girls that may not have a voice. ... I don't care what anybody has to say about me. I love who I am. ... I'm authentically me."

Today's decisions from the Supreme Court on Affirmative Action represent a significant setback for Civil Rights in the U.S. and are a cornerstone of the conservative movement's coordinated effort to roll back access to opportunity for systemically marginalized Americans.

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

Whew…this is heavy. 🙏🏾

This thread…👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

PERIOD.

I think about the ways Black Study might intervene on education. The Black Study in Education Lab operates on the assumption of Blackness as capacious by harnessing Black Study to detect and call forth otherwise possibilities. Join us as we engage w/ Durell Callier & BlackGrlGroove.

So if you can’t quit your job to get paid crumbs bc you have a family, mortgage, responsibilities other than yourself, etc. then you shouldn’t get a Ph.D.? 🤷🏾‍♀️ Very privileged and one-sided POV!

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Came to Black Twitter last night to see what yall was saying about Usher Raymond IV and BEYONCÉ ‘s Super Bowl and saw #writingblackness . Completely forgot about it 🤦🏾‍♀️ so let me catch up on these posts cause let me tell yall, I have been writing this dissertation errryday! Okayyy!

Catch up for #writingblackness 1/2: Day 1-2: Finalized ch. 1-3 edits Day 3-4: Edited reference lists w/ sista scholars at local library Day 5: Worked on participant profiles Day 6: Emailed chair updated timeline and finalized syllabus for HED grad course

Catch up on #writingblackness 2/2: Day 7: Taught first night of HED grad course/no writing Day 8-9: Identified excerpts from participant journals Day 10-11: Finished participant profiles and wrote theme 1 for ch. 4 Day 12: Wrote a paragraph for theme 2 of ch. 4…I’m tired

#writingblackness day 13: reviewed/updated/lesson plan for class tomorrow. Working full time and writing a dissertation is a beast. No energy to write tonight! Back at it on Thursday…

#writingblackness #phdlife Day 15 & 16: identified quotes to use for Theme 2. Day 17: took a break and hung out with my Sorors

#writingblackness Day 18 has been a productive day! RSVP’d for May graduation, ordered my tam and hood, (the price of that gown is wild 😳)! Also, created my writing plan/outline for this week as I take time off of work to complete ch. 4. Sent ch. 1-3 edits to my committee!

#writingblackness Day 19 was a slow writing day, added a little more to theme 1 bc I’m extra 🤷🏾‍♀️ and then wrote a bit for theme 2. Day 20: Wrote most of theme 2 and will finish this section after dinner and prep theme 3 for tomorrow! Progress! #phdlife

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It's that time #BlackWomen check-in! How are we doing since we last checked in?

Thank you Jesse R. Ford, Ph.D. for stepping in as my chair and guiding me through the final stages of my dissertation! I appreciate your guidance on becoming a Black scholar and your patience as I wrote my non-traditional dissertation with the goal of shaking some rooms in higher ed!