@alwaystheself As a former chair, and as a woman of color, it was great to be represented on screen. Overall, the show was spot on. Women fight for recognition as serious scholars and women take on much of the service work and emotional labor with little in return.
The ending sucked.
Always know your worth! UNC lost a remarkable journalist/professor. The failure to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones shed light on the deplorable record of institutions across the US who have tenured fewer than 3% of their black women faculty.#winning#HowardUniversity#valued
And it begins. The commercialisation of Juneteenth! I thought retailers would wait until next year to capitalize off this new holiday. I suppose the silver lining is the effort to highlight Black owned companies.We see you #afterpay#juneteenth#africanamericanhistory
I just read up on the controversy about the lack of Afo-Latina/os In the Heights. I can’t lie and say I didn’t acknowledge the casting choices and lack of speaking roles, but I was not that surprised. I think it comes down to feeling invisible. #InTheHeightsMovie
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I bet most were surprised to learn the couple named their newborn daughter after the Queen.
Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor (Lili for short) is the namesake of her paternal great-grandmother and paternal grandmother. #LilibetDiana#BGWA#royalbaby#megxit