Tavia Nyong’o

The long march through the institutions

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Here’s an idea: NAACP and HRC join forces to sponsor a Freedom Summer 2023 in Florida to fight the DeSantis agenda: register voters, defend trans and queer youth, fight the right wing takeover of higher Ed.

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I unlocked $20 Rush tickets for Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! on @TodayTix! https://t.co/SNQvFvcJCS

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I call upon leaders in higher education to publicly defend scholarship in black queer studies, intersectionality, and critical race theory from censorship and politically-motivated attack. Academic freedom is at stake.

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We are back in the trenches of another culture war, and as someone who reviewed the AP AAS curriculum (it was/is fantastic) and had high hopes for its roll out, I’m deeply disappointed by the College Board folding to pressure.

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Back on this platform against my better judgement to share my outrage that colleagues like E Patrick Johnson, Cathy Cohen, and Rod Ferguson, and now the great poet Amiri Baraka, are being removed from the AP African American Studies syllabus in response to right wing backlash.

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Mutuals who are moving to mastodon please DM me your handle over there in Jurassic park please.

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Okay, I think that’s all for now folks. Don’t want to collaborate with evil more than I have to.

I’m off to join the Clan of the Cavebear. You can find me at [email protected]

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I suppose this is also therapy for my foreboding sense that the US might presently be coming apart at the seams. “Origins of the present crisis.” Kind of thing.

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It feels weird to write lectures on the twentieth century, having started out as a nineteenth century specialist, and then writing about contemporary art for a few decades.

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My mother recalls grandpa holding up the newspaper headline “VJ Day” (her initials), and joking it was about her.

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Not sure why I avoided “The American Century” previously. But sifting through it now and sorting it into 13 weeks is an almost psychedelic experience.

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Woke up in Nairobi and started writing my Spring lectures: The Formation of Modern American Culture: 1945—2001. I feel like a proper emigré intellectual.

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The algorithm is trolling me hard today.

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Today is the anniversary of the United Fruit Company massacre against striking workers on the Colombian Caribbean coast in 1928. Between 1000 and 2000 banana pickers were killed in a bloodbath. The company responsible is known today as 'Chiquita.'

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I unlocked $35 Rush tickets for KPOP on @TodayTix https://t.co/ga5yewok3D

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Mid-tempo miércoles

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Which one actually works?

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The first and last “frequently used emoji” on your phone sums up your 2022. Mine:

2022 in like 🥟
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