Mimi Borders

Black Feminist Historian, Princeton doctoral candidate, proud midwesterner, she/her/hers

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

I reviewed @TiyaMilesTAM new book!

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

The world finally knows what I knew at 18 that thee Jericho Brown is a genius! 🎉🫶🏽🥹

From his poem “Colosseum”

“…I cannot locate the origin
Of slaughter, but I know
How my own feels, that I live with it
And sometimes use it
To get the living done…”

[Barbara Ransby @BarbaraRansby]

Students at Columbia are inspiring in their passion & determination. I'm proud of them & my colleagues there. @democracynow is showing protest of 1968. But there was a Black-led student struggle & encampment 2 DIVEST FROM SOUTH AFRICAN Apartheid in 1985 culmination of yrs of work

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

Disappointed but not surprised that these esteemed scholars whom study race, incarceration and slavery etc. decided to meet with Biden with no advocacy for ceasefire or an end to the slaughter of our Palestinian family.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I met with a group of scholars and historians in the Oval to get their viewpoints on ongoing threats to democracy – at home and around the world.

They understand what history has taught us:

Democracy is never guaranteed. Every generation must fight to maintain it.

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@_Rawilcox I miss that show so much

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

A wonderful morning panel with these incredible folks! We talked radical space-making, resistance and pleasure during the Civil War. This is the face of Civil War scholarship 🫶🏽

[Bethany Bell @bethanyannbell]

What a fun day at ASALH so far! I so enjoyed participating in a conference panel this morning with the BEST crew! @andrea_aniya @cwoodn73 @mimi_borders and Wyatt Erchak.

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

Make sure to grab a copy when the book is released Sept. 26, a great read!

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@MaisieBrownJxn Congratulations!! @mschelseann is a former Truman scholar and y’all’s interest align - hope you can connect <3

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@_Rawilcox proud of you intellectual powerhouse!!!

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@Tenisha_mc exactly sis. in this academic world but not of it.

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@drashleyfarmer @drvholden @jmjafrx This event looks amazing!! Do you know if will be recorded? sadly I will be in class

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@Tenisha_mc @amariewomack @imaniperry @kinohin so proud of you! Congrats!!!

[The Toni Morrison Project @toni_project]

Did you know that bell hooks wrote her dissertation on Toni Morrison's first two novels, The Bluest Eye and Sula?

Rest in power to bell hooks.🕊️💜

[Barbara Ransby @BarbaraRansby]

Saddened by the death of friend & colleague, bell hooks, 2 days after the anniversary of Leith Mullings death. So much Black feminist loss. We treasure what they left us and let us treasure one another more, w/ all of our complexities & contradictions, 4 as long as we are here.

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

White womanhood has the power to temporarily dislocate the boundaries of blackness allowing for palatable content.

The presence of a white mother on the screen allows for white audiences to see themselves even in lives of Black men and women.

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

On this season of #BacheloretteABC the final four men were all biracial with white moms.

I thought that was weird so I wrote about it.

https://t.co/HlUmTgD1Lh

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@CulturedModesty No jargon, inventive, transformative, community based historical knowledge production oh and creative

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

The Enduring Influence of Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Advocate https://t.co/OHJO0WVd1u

[Mimi Borders @mimi_borders]

@DrBritWilliams This is what disappointed me the most about my first sem at grad school. I came in with an abundance mentality and realized quick that was rare.