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Assistant Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
She/her
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You can buy my first book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
I don't have the words. But I will forever be grateful to the man my father was.

Please, rest easy. 😢
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Someone should take this case on and help this TA sue the shit out of this institution.

Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"The “black revolution” was never about those men who happened to have black skin but about changing the terms of power itself."👇🏾
December 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...?

On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And just like that: final grades for Fall 2025 have been uploaded! To say that this semester has been tougher than most (mostly due to aging parents with health problems 😕) its over! Now I just need to knock out two article reviews and I can take an actual break!
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited
Good morning, friends. Shine authentically, embracing imperfections! Be honest. Be real. Be messy. Be unapologetically YOU! And don’t worry about anyone who doesn’t accept you for being you. #Jaye’sMorningLight
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Oh they done gone too far. Keep the Combahee River Collective out your mouth is this is what you do!
Jacobin 🤜🤛 Rod Dreher

“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If I can just get all my students to turn in their last assignments before this cold (flu ??)seriously manifests, I might just be ok 🤦🏾‍♀️
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"First-gen programs, when done right, are not remedial. They are revolutionary. They teach institutions how to become more humane, equitable and responsive. They’re not just about tutoring or financial literacy; they’re about belonging." 👇🏾
Being the First in Your Family to attend College Is Not a Deficit—It’s a Distinction www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... "It means learning how to do college while doing college—a dual curriculum that tests not only intellect but resilience, adaptability and faith." #edusky #firstgen #college
In Praise of Being First-Gen (opinion)
We should not retire the label; we should reclaim and revere it.
www.insidehighered.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.
December 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Racism.

The answer is racism.
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Italy already has 21 other traditions on the list, including the art of Neapolitan pizza making and opera singing, and it is the first country to be recognised for its cuisine in its entirety rather than for a single tradition or recipe."
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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"The watchlist is not a little sunglasses icon. It is a scope with someone’s sight that you would think of on a gun for precision. That to me is terrifying. It is threatening. You don’t have to be very far between the lines, between figuring out what a watchlist might mean."
A conversation with Wellesley’s only professor on Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist
Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist” drew a surge of attention following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, on Sept. 10, prompting professors on the list to brac...
thewellesleynews.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Yeah white womens entitlement to superiority is a foundational part of fascism
10 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Women's #1 in tennis Aryna Sabalenka comes out against trans women: "they still have a huge advantage over the women and I think it’s not fair on women to face basically biological men.” She is to play an older men's pro in Dec 28 Battle of the Sexes.
Aryna Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’ in tennis
Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, saying it would be unfair for women to face ‘biological men’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Facts.
If Trump is “bonkers” we don’t have to deal with the fact we know this behavior pattern(s) and the most important people to stopping it isn’t Trump but the enablers

and then we’d have to stand on business about how we handle it
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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you’ve definitely heard of elf on the shelf but are you ready for
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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This is going to get better and worse

Because people are violently committed to not listening and securing their power over a functional government
December 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.”

– Maya Angelou ✨️✨️✨️
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"As Jamaica begins rebuilding after the emotional, economic and infrastructural damage caused by Hurricane Melissa, two education psychologists are warning that the country’s current school system is not equipped to help children navigate a future of increasingly severe climate-related disasters."
December 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Fall semester 2025 has come to an end. All I have left now is grading and wrapping up a few projects. I had to take my dad to the hospital Sunday, he's still there 😮‍💨 little sis is having issues at school...the way I need to take a real break this winter is serious 🫤 so many things all at once 😮‍💨
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Controversially, I don't think that if social media had existed that Montgomery could have lasted as long as it did. Bad actors and human nature would have spread negativity, trafficked in gossip, and torn down the leaders in ways that they could not do in 1955/56.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM