Zaria El-Fil

History PhD Student. ZΦB. Instagram: @BlackademicReads

[non-insane automaton @steelydante]

some albums are collages some albums are paintings some albums are tapestries some albums are illustrations some albums are avant-garde mixed media

[Caribbean Studies Association @CaribbeanSAssoc]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Book Title: Intangible Archives (Working Title)

Deadlines:
Submission of Proposals: March 25, 2026

Seeking essays from an international range of cultures and traditions, we invite chapters on intangible archives.

https://t.co/ZBiPLmGYvP

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

"Bankers and Empire : How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean" by Hudson, Peter James.

https://t.co/NsHer6bAYV

[Zaria El-Fil @DearZaria]

Co-teaching the Colonizations sequence next quarter! Excited to expose students to the political theorists who changed my life when I was their age. We're reading Fanon, Wynter, Césaire, and so many more!

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

“I don’t owe anybody anything!” Actually we are perhaps nothing but dizzyingly intricate webs of obligations to other beings and ourselves. The sheer weight of our obligations is all that keeps us from floating away into space. We can never do enough but we must try.

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

A few lessons on surviving fascism from the time void known as Jim Crow.

https://t.co/8Pwx83mpd8

[Patrice D. Douglass @pdouglassphd]

“Engendering Blackness” is 40% off through 12/8 on @stanfordpress’s website. https://t.co/3lX35BuzMb

[jatella @jatella]

“Was yielding to a lover the moment everything went wrong?” - Saidiya Hartman

[Zaria El-Fil @DearZaria]

Wow! Someone liked this tweet from 2021 and so it popped up in my notifications today. I remember this feeling vividly 🤍

[Zaria El-Fil @DearZaria]

After re-reading the congratulations email upward of 10 times, I can fully confirm that I have been admitted to Yale University for my PhD. Wow. My family is ecstatic. I’m the first in my family to pursue a graduate level degree.

[The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init]

Issue #2 of the open-access journal Plant Perspectives @plantpjournal from @whitehorsepress is now available online with the theme "Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance in Science and Literature" https://t.co/3ToO7ZKLMD

[Alán ♿ 🆓🍉 @MigrantScribble]

UC Davis: I’m teaching a small seminar this winter quarter over Zoom. Check it out: Afro-Mexican and Afro-Chicano Culture and Identity.

[Florencia Castells @florccastells]

Mañana miércoles 20 voy a estar en la @UFrontera, Temuco, en este hermoso y recomendable Workshop del que tengo la alegría de participar.
Nos vemos allí !! 🤩🤩🤩

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

especially because they will read your introvertedness as a sign of “aggression”

[Emeka @Emeneks]

When has a biological and Objectively attractive women not won Miss Universe?

If you can’t see what he’s doing, then you are very blind.

[Zaria El-Fil @DearZaria]

Jokes aside, I know that we will see more of this across the country. The main people who have been fighting censorship across federal administrations are our educators in the South. It’s important to organize *with* them and learn from them.

[Zaria El-Fil @DearZaria]

The decolonial girlies win again.
Anti-colonial girlies, you’ve been eliminated.

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

or, perhaps, you could study the racial stigmatization of black reproductive capacities, and not replicate anti-black Moynihan theories of black women and girls?

[eileen chengyin chow @chowleen]

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

Where we are headed: Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

[Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson]

Look what I got! I'm so excited to dive in! I've been telling anyone who will listen that integration is a categorical failure! Thank you @nrookie for writing this book!

TWO books in a year! Boss moves! You, dear sister, are doing the Lord's work!

Pre-order now!