sarah haley

professor; abolitionist; black feminist scholar. Author of No Mercy Here. Views are my own and do not represent any employer or institution.

[zora • zora @zorafuture]

most—and i do mean most—academics write out of, and into, a tradition. no matter how novel (y)our ideas seem, we are entering into a conversation, not starting it. to perpetually assert the “new” is to engage in the same violence of ownership that the work often argues against.

[Rahim Kurwa @rahimkurwa]

It's publication day for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, available in paper & free .epub! It traces a century of struggle over Los Angeles' periphery, culminating in the use of policing to expel and repress Black tenants. Here's a look at its chapters:

[leonie updates @truviadaddie]

personally if I were a tony presenter and I saw this live I would've wrote audra's name on a post it and slapped it on that envelope but congrats Nicole ig

[sarah haley @sahaley]

I strive for grace but at the end of the day I am furious that a grating, cliche, and static performance in an inferior work won over Audra’s most historic, transcendent, gorgeous and vivid performance. Story old as time. And resonant of this political moment.

[audra mcdonald’s 7th tony @deborahsvance]

greatest living stage actor <3

[sarah haley @sahaley]

Precisely. Dramatic and musical genius.

[zora • zora @zorafuture]

i know audra mcdonald is minding her own business and tending to her garden, but i came back here to remind all of us that this performance did not have the “benefit” of a full show build up. she out and, in a moment, SURRENDERED to genius. my lord. 🙌🏿👏🏿

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@zorafuture Omg I’m planning to see her 2-3 more times before it ends in fall too. Would LOVE to talk. Will message you.

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@zorafuture I want to read your writing on Gypsy/AM!! Can you send a link or are you in progress? I have seen her in Gypsy three times and am dying to talk about it.

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@zorafuture Anyone who surpassed all others in a role widely perceived to be the greatest of all time would have won. She is cerebral + operatic + Black + tender + angry + conflicted + beautiful. She was the best. Point blank period. But wow is she also graceful.

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@zorafuture Mmhmm.

[sarah haley @sahaley]

Congratulations!!

[Hope T. Jackson, MD @htjacks]

SO excited for this opportunity!!! #GoBlue #PaulettesDaughter 👇🏾

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@njlightfoot 💜💜💜

[sarah haley @sahaley]

Please sign and circulate!

[Scholars for Social Justice @ScholarsForSJ]

As faculty, we condemn the arrest and detention of Palestinian activists Mahmoud Khalil and Leqaa Korda, and call for their immediate release. Read and sign onto the rest of our statement: https://t.co/tLaDJo1DZ1

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@CynthiaNixon Run, Cynthia, run!

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@abolitionista I can relate. My 6 year old knows most of the worlds and I can’t bring myself to stop him 🤫

[sarah haley @sahaley]

My 6 year old son is revising history and time traveling a pretend Knicks v Bulls game. He, as Jalen Brunson, is playing against his babysitter Brianna, as my all-time favorite player, @ScottiePippen. Brunson is winning. My loyalties are split. Proud mom but Scottie forever 😂

[sarah haley @sahaley]

Listening to College Dropout after so many years and I am in such a state of mourning. The creative and political death is just tragic.

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@MarkLevineNYC A wonderful thread.

[sarah haley @sahaley]

@smccurry3 It is something to behold.

[UNITE HERE Local 2 @UniteHereL2]

💥BREAKING💥

Dozens of striking San Francisco hotel workers and supporters are risking arrest as they block traffic on Powell Street in front of @Marriott’s Westin St. Francis.

After weeks on strike, we want the hotels to settle a contract that invests in this city.