Dr Jovonne J Bickerstaff

Black feminist scholar examining emotion work, the ethics of care, & intergenerational trauma & healing at the intersections of race, gender, & class

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

FIRST WOMAN TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN 98 YEARS!!! 🥹❤️

[Robert Daniels @812filmreviews]

Hearing reports that no one else will be arriving at the MET gala. They’ve all admitted they can’t clear Teyana’s bar.

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

We don't often recommend journalistic pieces. But we think you all should read this powerful, important work by Patrick Fealey in @esquire about his life as a homeless writer. Please make time this holiday weekend for "The Invisible Man." https://t.co/ZwzbCgspFd

[It's A G Thing @WilGafney]

I don't know by what reasoning Biden/Harris can deny genocidal level of casualties in Gaza. They can't honestly believe that every international agency and genocide specialist has fallen prey to cooked numbers & it's just not that bad. He knows in his pious Catholic heart.

[P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle]

I have spent my entire career working overtime to create community and conduits for change at the institutions which host me. But when I/you are doing the work of any institution and it doesn’t advance y/our values and communities, it’s time to dial it back or take it elsewhere.

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

Crazy how we have a sitting Democratic president who, according to SCOTUS, has essentially limitless extralegal power, and no one expects him to do anything with that during the next couple months that might ameliorate what follows.

[Roopika Risam @roopikarisam]

What’s coming is chaos, confusion, and attacks on every issue you care about all at once. That’s the strategy — mass mayhem and distraction. Don’t let it work. Define your sphere of influence: where you can have an impact, work on that, strengthen/build relationships.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Like I’ve been saying for months. The storms are coming.

I had been mentally preparing myself for this outcome, but it still is stunning to watch.

[deray @deray]

And miss me with the “don’t worry, we will fight like last time” because every time I see this it’s from people who ain’t organized one soul last time. It was exhausting.

It is going to be brutal this time. And every organizer I know is at the end of their bandwidth.

[kaela | franchaela nation 🏰 @kaekaecurtis]

please keep the “we survived him once, we will do it again” tweets in the drafts or better yet delete them. millions of people did not in fact survive him, and millions more will not survive him again.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Elections have consequences. The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation. I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime. Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40 year old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

All Day 😌

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1920, a white mob in Ocoee, Florida, lynched dozens of Black Americans and razed the Black community, because a Black man attempted to vote. https://t.co/uD227Nfx0P

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

It’s actually amusing how many TV shows are like “We don’t wanna miss out on an interview with this Ta-Nehisi Coates everyone’s talking about, but we hate Palestinians—maybe WE can be the ones to trip him up bwahahahah” and then he’s just calmly like “Naw, it’s simply apartheid”

[Dr Jovonne J Bickerstaff @Jrny4wrd]

Whew ... Ruha Benjamin
a model. a manual. a sermon on standing on & in truth

Congratulations - so very much deserved

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

Stop waiting.

Begin living as fully and freely as possible.

Time is sacred.

This moment is what you have.

[Myles D. Moody, PhD @mylesdmoody]

have y’all noticed how Black women are collectively bracing themselves for the hate they’ll get during this election season now that Harris is running? this is what we mean when we speak of “chronic/anticipatory stressors w/ adverse health consequences” they regularly endure smh

[Deesha Philyaw @DeeshaPhilyaw]

#YallMasking is trending! Me, seeing @theestallion last month! Pretty sure my date and I were the only ones masked in the entire venue.