DocLB2
@doclb2.bsky.social
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/
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/
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Purchase it here: bookshop.org/p/books/fes-...
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Purchase it here: bookshop.org/p/books/fes-...
Facts. 📍
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
February 8, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Facts. 📍
Not gonna lie, as a sociologist this pleases me. Well done all!
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Not gonna lie, as a sociologist this pleases me. Well done all!
Always a good moment! 🤣
The moment when you, albeit belatedly, remember the name of someone who clearly remembered yours when greeting you in public earlier
a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing
Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing at the screen as if something's familiar
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Always a good moment! 🤣
📍 lovely
Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
February 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
📍 lovely
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I know we're having a lot of fun with the whole penis doping thing, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that this should be the scandal in ski jumping that everyone is screaming about apnews.com/article/olym...
An American skier is fighting to open up the last Winter Olympic sport off limits to women
U.S. Nordic combined athlete Annika Malacinski is leading the fight for gender equality at the Winter Olympics after women were excluded from the sport at the upcoming Milan Cortina Games.
apnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I know we're having a lot of fun with the whole penis doping thing, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that this should be the scandal in ski jumping that everyone is screaming about apnews.com/article/olym...
"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air."
~ Gwendolyn Brooks🌸🌸🌸
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 6 ❤️🖤💚
~ Gwendolyn Brooks🌸🌸🌸
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 6 ❤️🖤💚
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air."
~ Gwendolyn Brooks🌸🌸🌸
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 6 ❤️🖤💚
~ Gwendolyn Brooks🌸🌸🌸
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 6 ❤️🖤💚
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The most fascinating thing I learned about her years ago is that her brother was Alphaeus Hunton Jr. and their politics were diametrically opposed. Her grandson Stephen Carter is a well known law professor at Yale and wrote about book about his grandmother that I read.
Today’s Black History Month focus: Eunice Hunton Carter.
Harlem attorney. Relentless investigator. One of the first Black women prosecutors in New York.
And she helped take down Lucky Luciano, years before “organized crime” was a TV genre.
history.nycourts.gov/about_period...
Harlem attorney. Relentless investigator. One of the first Black women prosecutors in New York.
And she helped take down Lucky Luciano, years before “organized crime” was a TV genre.
history.nycourts.gov/about_period...
Eunice Carter, First Black Woman Assistant District Attorney in NYS - Historical Society of the New York Courts
Eunice Carter’s life and career was celebrated in Invisible No More: The Eunice Carter Story with a special focus on her work in the prosecution of Lucky … More Eunice Carter, First Black Woman Assist...
history.nycourts.gov
February 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The most fascinating thing I learned about her years ago is that her brother was Alphaeus Hunton Jr. and their politics were diametrically opposed. Her grandson Stephen Carter is a well known law professor at Yale and wrote about book about his grandmother that I read.
"Journalism is not just another profession. Society’s right to be well informed rests on our work. Freedom, equality and democracy depend on our work – albeit not exclusively. So there are no excuses for lying or concealing information. /1
If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM
"Journalism is not just another profession. Society’s right to be well informed rests on our work. Freedom, equality and democracy depend on our work – albeit not exclusively. So there are no excuses for lying or concealing information. /1
Yuck. And absolute 🤡
“.. while the song ‘The Lions Sleeps Tonight’ plays in the background.”
@lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...
@lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Yuck. And absolute 🤡
I love this and the museum is amazing ❤️🖤💚
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I love this and the museum is amazing ❤️🖤💚
Folks can stay mad, we recognize and remember still ❤️🖤💚
"US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology." 👇🏾
"US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology." 👇🏾
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Folks can stay mad, we recognize and remember still ❤️🖤💚
"US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology." 👇🏾
"US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology." 👇🏾
Create 🌸🌸🌸
It's not just fine but amazing to make amateur art. Humans are artmakers. You don't have to be professionalized as an artist, you don't have to make art of professional merit. Just create!
February 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Create 🌸🌸🌸
An interesting opportunity.
Knowing that a lot of fantastic, dedicated journalists in DC are looking for opportunities: JHU's Agora Institute has a call out for Visiting Fellows. The 2026-27 theme is Democracy and the Media.
It's nonresident & carries a modest stipend (unfortunately no benefits). It's open to practitioners.
It's nonresident & carries a modest stipend (unfortunately no benefits). It's open to practitioners.
Visiting Fellows
Our visiting fellows program welcomes leaders from diverse sectors — including civil society, government, industry, media, and the arts. Learn more.
snfagora.jhu.edu
February 5, 2026 at 10:18 PM
An interesting opportunity.
📍 terrible.
Iowa closing the African American studies major during Black history month is diabolical.
This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.
This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.
Iowa universities reviewing low-enrollment majors, could close or merge programs
The University of Iowa is reviewing undergraduate majors with low enrollment – like African American studies and gender, women's, and sexuality studies – after the Board of Regents last year mandated ...
www.thegazette.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
📍 terrible.
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📆 Fri. 2/6 @ 7PM: We are excited to welcome award-winning plant biologist Beronda L. Montgomery in store for a discussion of her new book, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy", in conversation with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Learn more: buff.ly/BwjJQNV
February 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
~ Octavia E. Butler ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
~ Octavia E. Butler ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.”
~ Octavia E. Butler ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
~ Octavia E. Butler ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
Right 🤦🏾♀️
I can’t believe this isn’t obvious to people 😭
Some people will be tempted to think that having the state dictate faculty teaching loads we can repair trust in institutions and avoid authoritarianism when in actuality having the state dictate faculty teaching is part of an authoritarian program.
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Right 🤦🏾♀️
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My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante
Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning
www.gofundme.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
"A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general."
~ Lorraine Hansberry ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth 🫶🏾
~ Lorraine Hansberry ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth 🫶🏾
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
"A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general."
~ Lorraine Hansberry ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth 🫶🏾
~ Lorraine Hansberry ❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth 🫶🏾
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“We are the reminders of a system that commodified children and exported citizens for profit… Our presence unsettles the national conscience because it forces Korea to confront what it tried to conceal.”
Adoption as banishment: Why Korea's adoptees deserve more than symbolic redress - The Korea Times
The renewal of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for a third mandate on Jan. 29 offers a new opportunity to address the unresolved adop...
www.koreatimes.co.kr
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 PM
“We are the reminders of a system that commodified children and exported citizens for profit… Our presence unsettles the national conscience because it forces Korea to confront what it tried to conceal.”
"The exclusion of incarcerated women from protection has nothing to do with crime or justice. It's about power and expendability. Incarcerated women are disproportionately poor, Black, Indigenous, and Latina. We're the women society has always found easiest to ignore and abandon."
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Today @theflytrapmedia.com published a really powerful piece by @kwanetaharris.bsky.social on gender-based violence against incarcerated women.
She writes: "We become perfectly obedient victims of intimate partner violence, except the violence is legal and the abusers wear badges."
She writes: "We become perfectly obedient victims of intimate partner violence, except the violence is legal and the abusers wear badges."
Ain't We Women, Too?
For many incarcerated women, the state is their abuser, but the gender-based violence we experience behind bars goes ignored.
www.theflytrapmedia.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
"The exclusion of incarcerated women from protection has nothing to do with crime or justice. It's about power and expendability. Incarcerated women are disproportionately poor, Black, Indigenous, and Latina. We're the women society has always found easiest to ignore and abandon."
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Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
February 3, 2026 at 2:24 PM
A 🧵
This pleases me 😊
MAGA meltdown, incoming.
Jackson, 33, is the first Black woman to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Games
apnews.com/article/wint...
Jackson, 33, is the first Black woman to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Games
apnews.com/article/wint...
Speedskater Erin Jackson, bobsledder Frank Del Duca picked as US flagbearers for Winter Olympics
Speedskater Erin Jackson and bobsledder Frank Del Duca have been chosen as the U.S. flagbearers for the Milan Cortina Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.Jackson is the first Black woman to win an ind...
apnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
This pleases me 😊