i am my ancestors' wildest dream. diasporadical. lover. marauder. professor of Black Studies, History & player hating. early 20th C Black migration. #SGRho#BLM
"Modern narratives of capitalist development often assume that vast wealth accumulated by a few accompanies improved circumstances for many. The history of slavery’s capitalism warns against all these expectations."
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1⃣ When #BlackFeminist#Socialists "retire". Today I start my 2nd year of retirement. Here are 7⃣ tweets of some things I did in 2018 because of the https://t.co/F1k3Qd6OTQ. I hope you'll join them so I can continue the work I love.
With @RaGilmer & Ciara Taylor in NYC 1-18.
The energy we’re bringing into 2019:
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
I fight the holiday feeling but I can't ever help getting into the New Year and all its possibilities.
I am so grateful for everything I received this year.
I walked into 2018 with a job & dope ass friends. I got a PhD. I started a Postdoc. I spoke the truth. I laughed. A lot.
Great question. And why stop at slavery, there have been times when I needed to pause. Managing the depths of violence in the history I research has been a challenge at times, but I feel like I owe my subjects when I consider the weight that they carried for my benefit.
Haitian Independance Day is tmrw and it’s something we should all celebrate. Every single Black person. It’s such a beautiful, key factor of our history and something to revel in, together.
It should be celebrated heavier than it is.