Benae Beamon, PhD

Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University. Tap Dancer. Radical. Lover of Art, Otherness, and All Things Complicated.

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

I'm pretty sure that in an antiblack, white supremacist world saying "white lives matter" is what makes you a "sheep." Ya know, just based on the facts. #kanye

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

@BoldTypeWriters As a fan of the show, I am queer, black woman that talks about race, gender, and sexuality for a living and would gleefully act as a consultant.

If I learned anything from Mindy Kaling's Late Night, it was 1) outsider pers. is a plus and 2) shoot your shot

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

There is a direct line from Derek Chauvin (police brutality) to the beating of Iyanna Dior (mob violence).

Systems have consequences. They are always hoping to swallow us whole, and sometimes they succeed. We have to do better for our trans sisters.

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4. Black trans people are denied the kind of unabashed advocacy that black cis people garner. They are made culpable, undone, and discarded, so the absence of Tony McDade, Nina Pop from the litany isn't just unfortunate it's complicity.

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

Here's what I know for sure:

1. My partner sometimes jokes that machines, fixtures, and furniture are held together by hopes and dreams. The science fiction of black life is that it is indeed held together by hopes and dreams.

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

3. Looting is a subversive form of the scorched-earth policy. It epitomizes the lament of exhaustion and the hope of uncovering what was to create what can be. Why not let it burn?

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

Fungibility is so entrenched in blackness that the US has always privileged profit and goods over our bodies. The law was built on the idea that we're still property.

[Odetta MacLeishWhite @OdettaMacLeishW]

Got to #RVP2019 at start of morning break so thought “let me check out this art installation thingy...” 🤯🤯🤯 Personal fave spot of the conf & I hope @CProgressNews does this forever. @BenaeBeamon is tapping nonstop during conf hrs to reflect the constant labor of community work

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

Big ups to all the young black people who only applied to one college or got into several schools with moderate financial aid. Even if your story didn't go viral, you are still an embodiment of what it means to be young, gifted, and black...

#blackexcellencehasmanyforms

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

If you have seen BlackkKlansman, but haven't read Boots Riley's critique, then you have to check it out.

Riley offer some really thought provoking commentary and calls into question what it means to literally rewrite history

#revisionisthistory #blackfilm

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

I believe that the raised fist is one of the most beautiful, powerful signs of solidarity, love, community and strength

I also believe that when done in rooms full of white people with no context or consideration it becomes a kind of reductive black novelty

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

The black poets during the Black Arts Movement were the prophets of their time.
#musings #blackartists

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

Scholars interest in/obsession with engaging Beyonce's Lemonade vs their silence on Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer is a demonstration of the deep investment some scholars have in praising and propagating heteronormativity/heterosexuality and particular constructions of femininity

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

Language is so important https://t.co/kyiAK2pa0E

[NAMI @NAMICommunicate]

Our hearts are with Kate Spade’s friends and family. As we learn more, remember to talk about suicide in a safe way:
-say “died by suicide” or “took his/her life”, not “committed suicide”
-exclude details of method used
-exclude depictions, location of death and notes left behind

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

"Trash" = empty description

It invests in an impossibility of improvement/sharing knowledge of what ought to be. I can't abide that ethic.

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

#nabrahassanen died b/c of the same vigilante myth that makes bigoted individuals act as moral adjudicators/extensions of the state

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[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

People unjustly punished/killed in the name of "safety" though only white cisheteropatriarchy is protected & otherness pained/penalized

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[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

black people are forced to plead w/ the state, to prove their humanity, value, & freedom, like slaves on a day pass

#BlackLivesMatter

[Benae Beamon, PhD @BenaeBeamon]

#charlennalyles was murdered seeking protection because the state was designed to punish not protect black people

#slavestate #dehumanized