i swear academics need this reminder daily

You glance and think these must be throwbacks. Grace Jones laughs at you because this is a shoot for Wolford’s Spring 2023 campaign…and she is 74.

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Thank you MoMA The Museum of Modern Art and Jehan Roberson Jehan for an amazing night of #writing with art work by DT and LauraAguilar. #possession #heritage #Historyintobeing #inspired

Often I wish every publication, book, and library could be accessed by any human on the planet. What would that mean? What would it look like? What would be the social impact? I don't know. But I wish it.

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This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now:

Holllllly shit that Julianna Margulies podcast clip. Like the transcript is already fucking horrifying but the actual way she says all that racist shit with her full entire throat my fucking god. The way she said the word “Black” sent a chill up my spine, Jesus.

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I really do not understand the calculus of constantly insulting young people, and presuming what they do or do not know. Also, college students during the CRM didn’t have to understand the entire history of racism to know segregation was immoral. Did BLM protestors have to know

I wish Sula and Janie Crawford could’ve met

Black WNBA Twitter looking at Monica McNutt cook SAS on First Take:

Historians be like

NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. tinyurl.com/bdcrnzka

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women

Black Americans vote like they vote not because they align with every single Democratic policy but because they understand this country with a clarity that can be challenging for people who have not had to live under apartheid in the U.S., who’ve never known what it’s like NOT to

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While I tend to just lurk and just clap when y’all say something brilliant on here, the time has come to move on over to Bluesky. Because fuck you Elon Musk. Follow me over there! Jehan.bsky.social I’ll be deactivating this page mañana!

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