Multi-hyphenate 👑 Sociologist of race, Black families & highered + Lover of food, art, and culture + Champion for Black Women cc: @SpelmanCollege 💙/ OSU 🌰
"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us." -The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) by Combahee River Collective /5
Is anyone still here? I know that basically I'm not either but if you are: I'm teaching research methods and I'm wondering if people have recommendations on reflexivity statements/positionality statements written by non-POC?
🚀New paper alert. One chapter from my dissertation is out @Gend_Soc! Check out how Americans classify the gender of ambiguous names by using a gender-binary frame and racialized views.
https://t.co/aMby4gYhQD
It’s my TEDx Anniversary! Two years ago today I delivered my first #TEDx in my hometown of Detroit! This talk highlights my work on trauma narratives and narratives as currency.
Full talk: Is My Pain Your Gain? | Aya Waller-Bey | TEDxDetroit https://t.co/mI0EwUXMlc via @YouTube
This is fine and also college rankings are racialized and anti-black processes that ignore historical and contemporary suppression and neglect of hbcus!
Going to college is one of the biggest investments most students will ever make - we are here to provide a guide. WSJ’s College Rankings evaluates outcomes, empowering students to identify which colleges will do the most to help them graduate and make more money.
Today I write about how many parents who bemoan the loss of a "village" don't actually want one, because it would require them to interact with other people.
I love this thread, plan to read the OP article, & want to also add that the village is really a racialized, classed, & gendered phenom. The syst. undergirding R, C, + G make villages both culturally salient, necessary, & inaccessible for reasons ment. here & others unnamed.
As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...
Happy Gullah Geechee Heritage Month and Hoodoo Heritage Month. Today is a good day to get into one of the many legacies the ancestors gifted to the Gullah Geechee—stories about the Flying Africans—folktales of spiritual comfort and resistance.
What does career "success" really mean for college students?
In my first solo-authored PhD article in @socprobsjournal, I explore how students' racial and class backgrounds shape the moral tensions they face in their career decision-making
➡️ https://t.co/PvdzwOk1Ot
The landing page for the Center for the Study of Black Families and Children is now available.
Worked so hard to get this off the ground. And I'm thankful to the team going on this journey with me. I'm in my feelings right now. 😭
https://t.co/8cpNuVnBpp