DuBois couldn’t get an office on Penn’s campus. Chicago openly assaulted Atlanta University. Universities sat silent during lynching. Black folks routinely fired for affirming their humanity.
White Ivory Towers have been toxic since their creation, not since you showed up.
Remembering a Pioneer of Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde
'When White-dominated arts institutions would not offer them opportunities, Robert L. Douglas and other Louisville Black artists organized together to create their own art communities.'
https://t.co/S2EqgX4719
If you sit silently for six years while your institution cooks up fresh new ways to break you, you will **absolutely not become magically outspoken** after the ink dries on your promotion letter.
Six years of silent submission will be followed by six years of silent submission.
Black residents of Sapelo Island, Georgia vowed to keep fighting after county commissioners voted to weaken zoning restrictions in their enclave, a change that could lead to the decline of one of the few surviving Gullah-Geechee communities.
https://t.co/5uqYCbpXNa
“There comes a time in every public historian’s career where you simply have to bet on yourself.”
— Dr. Torren Gatson, #NCPH2023 Keynote Address with Dr. Tiffany Momon (@TMomonHP)
“I wondered if maybe we should wait some time until we became established scholars… and after all we’ve achieved now I thought—nah girl” carrying this energy with me the rest of the year. No impostor syndrome for me!! @TMomonHP#NCPH2023
Academic job seekers often think that because they didn't get a job one year, or didn't get a particular job, there's something they should change in their application. That's often a mistake. Here are some reasons you maybe didn't get the job that are beyond your control(thread)
Being Black in a predominantly white work environment makes you hypervisible. In my eval, the comment “I don’t see you very much,” was made. Another colleague said, “We don’t want to bug you. It’s helpful if you’re close by.” Y’all. I’m going to do my best to articulate this 1/