Dr. Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton
@eghosaobaizamomwan.bsky.social
#BlackMotherscholar | FirstGen 🇳🇬 | Stanford GSE| Cofounding editor @blackeducology | Black Feminist Thought | Black Educational Research | https://linktr.ee/Teachlove
Preorder my first book: https://tinyurl.com/Articulations1
Preorder my first book: https://tinyurl.com/Articulations1
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Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences
This book pioneers a comprehensive exploration of how Black women educators navigate societal stigmas surrounding their natural hairstyles.
It unveils the complexities of their hair journey and its pr...
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“Hair for Black women educators operates as both a metaphor and a literal conceptualization of our lived experiences. How often are we asked to straighten up at work? How many times have we been tangled up in the traps of misogynoir? Hair is currency.” Preorder: tinyurl.com/Articulations3
Reclaiming Thanksgiving -All My Relations
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Reclaiming Thanksgiving: Honoring the Past, Nourishing the Future — All My Relations
Thanksgiving is often celebrated with gratitude and togetherness, but the story most of us know is rooted in myth and erasure. Recorded live at the new Tidelands Gallery, this episode flips the script...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Reclaiming Thanksgiving -All My Relations
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www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/epis...
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The Punctuation Collection™️
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Punctuation Collection™️
We Be Audacious.
For us, as a Black woman, audacity is operationalized through the vehicle of education.
Me and the homie cooking up something in our paper titled: “To Be Audacious And Blackgirlwomen Educators: Making Space Where There Ain’t None, Being Subversive And Staying Black”
For us, as a Black woman, audacity is operationalized through the vehicle of education.
Me and the homie cooking up something in our paper titled: “To Be Audacious And Blackgirlwomen Educators: Making Space Where There Ain’t None, Being Subversive And Staying Black”
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
We Be Audacious.
For us, as a Black woman, audacity is operationalized through the vehicle of education.
Me and the homie cooking up something in our paper titled: “To Be Audacious And Blackgirlwomen Educators: Making Space Where There Ain’t None, Being Subversive And Staying Black”
For us, as a Black woman, audacity is operationalized through the vehicle of education.
Me and the homie cooking up something in our paper titled: “To Be Audacious And Blackgirlwomen Educators: Making Space Where There Ain’t None, Being Subversive And Staying Black”
The radical potential of the word “mother” comes after the ‘m’. It is the space that “other” takes in our mouths when we say it...We know it from how fearfully institutions wield social norms and try to shut us down. We know it from how we are transforming the planet...making life possible.
—Gumbs
—Gumbs
Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, and Presence
This chapter explores the multiple challenges faced by Black motherscholars in academia and motherhood. Grounded in BlackCrit, endarkened feminist epistemology, and intersectionality, it examines how…
link.springer.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The radical potential of the word “mother” comes after the ‘m’. It is the space that “other” takes in our mouths when we say it...We know it from how fearfully institutions wield social norms and try to shut us down. We know it from how we are transforming the planet...making life possible.
—Gumbs
—Gumbs
Love is possible even in a world that teaches us to hate ourselves & the selves we see waiting in each other..[the] world that says that we should not be born, & that says “no” to our very beings everyday, I still wake up wanting you with a “yes” on my heart—Alexis Pauline Gumbs tinyurl.com/1blk1
Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, and Presence
This chapter explores the multiple challenges faced by Black motherscholars in academia and motherhood. Grounded in BlackCrit, endarkened feminist epistemology, and intersectionality, it examines how…
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Love is possible even in a world that teaches us to hate ourselves & the selves we see waiting in each other..[the] world that says that we should not be born, & that says “no” to our very beings everyday, I still wake up wanting you with a “yes” on my heart—Alexis Pauline Gumbs tinyurl.com/1blk1
The truth is, hair identity animates our world as Black women, and we need more dialogue about how hair is marked as a racial identifier for us and shapes how we are seen, treated, and employed.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The truth is, hair identity animates our world as Black women, and we need more dialogue about how hair is marked as a racial identifier for us and shapes how we are seen, treated, and employed.
“Hair for Black women educators operates as both a metaphor and a literal conceptualization of our lived experiences. How often are we asked to straighten up at work? How many times have we been tangled up in the traps of misogynoir? Hair is currency.” Preorder: tinyurl.com/Articulations3
Articulations, A Radical Methodology for Black Pedagogy: Redefining Education through Black Women’s Hair Experiences
This book pioneers a comprehensive exploration of how Black women educators navigate societal stigmas surrounding their natural hairstyles.
It unveils the complexities of their hair journey and its pr...
tinyurl.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Hair for Black women educators operates as both a metaphor and a literal conceptualization of our lived experiences. How often are we asked to straighten up at work? How many times have we been tangled up in the traps of misogynoir? Hair is currency.” Preorder: tinyurl.com/Articulations3
To (re)member in the context of Black mothering means to understand the power that I have and have always had as a Black woman. It is being confident in the inherent restoration that happens when Black women remember who we are. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, and Presence
This chapter explores the multiple challenges faced by Black motherscholars in academia and motherhood. Grounded in BlackCrit, endarkened feminist epistemology, and intersectionality, it examines how ...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
To (re)member in the context of Black mothering means to understand the power that I have and have always had as a Black woman. It is being confident in the inherent restoration that happens when Black women remember who we are. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
I’m honored to have my chapter “Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, And Presence” out there in the world. It examines how Black Motherscholars navigate oppressive systems while nurturing intellectual & maternal identities. S/o the editors✊🏾
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, and Presence
This chapter explores the multiple challenges faced by Black motherscholars in academia and motherhood. Grounded in BlackCrit, endarkened feminist epistemology, and intersectionality, it examines how ...
link.springer.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’m honored to have my chapter “Black While Mothering: Retaining Motherhood, Scholarship, And Presence” out there in the world. It examines how Black Motherscholars navigate oppressive systems while nurturing intellectual & maternal identities. S/o the editors✊🏾
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Check out the latest episode of “Black Women Be Knowing” LEARNING IN A BURNING HOUSE podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Check out the latest episode of “Black Women Be Knowing” LEARNING IN A BURNING HOUSE podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
“Loving ourselves and each other deepens our disruption of the dominant systems. They want us unwell, fearful, exhausted, and without deep self-love because you are easier to manipulate when you are distracted by what is not real or true." —Tricia Hersey
October 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Loving ourselves and each other deepens our disruption of the dominant systems. They want us unwell, fearful, exhausted, and without deep self-love because you are easier to manipulate when you are distracted by what is not real or true." —Tricia Hersey
“We are socialized into systems that cause us to conform and believe our worth is connected to how much we can produce. Our constant labor becomes a prison that allows us to be disembodied... We forget how to dream....”
—Tricia Hersey
—Tricia Hersey
October 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“We are socialized into systems that cause us to conform and believe our worth is connected to how much we can produce. Our constant labor becomes a prison that allows us to be disembodied... We forget how to dream....”
—Tricia Hersey
—Tricia Hersey
I had an amazing time co-hosting an amazing cypher panel “Freedom Dreaming & Black Sustainabilities Beyond the Ruins” with Dr. David Stovall, Dr. Tiffani Marie, and Dr. Kenjus Watson✊🏾They gave us sermons, diss tracks, and beautiful expositions about life, death, and the in-between.
October 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I had an amazing time co-hosting an amazing cypher panel “Freedom Dreaming & Black Sustainabilities Beyond the Ruins” with Dr. David Stovall, Dr. Tiffani Marie, and Dr. Kenjus Watson✊🏾They gave us sermons, diss tracks, and beautiful expositions about life, death, and the in-between.
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Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
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September 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well.”
—Assata Shakur
—Assata Shakur
September 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well.”
—Assata Shakur
—Assata Shakur
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Weapons of mass love… Assata 🕊️🖤
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Weapons of mass love… Assata 🕊️🖤
Literacy is the enemy of oppression, this is why they try to sever access to books, history, learning, and sense.
September 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Literacy is the enemy of oppression, this is why they try to sever access to books, history, learning, and sense.
“The act of silencing is always an admission. Of inferiority, of fear. A confession that the most effective threat to a perverted power is something as accessible and determined as voice.”
—Cole Arthur Riley
—Cole Arthur Riley
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“The act of silencing is always an admission. Of inferiority, of fear. A confession that the most effective threat to a perverted power is something as accessible and determined as voice.”
—Cole Arthur Riley
—Cole Arthur Riley
Thee illustrious Rapsody checked out this syllabus inspired by her album EVE…you should too 🎤😏
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repository.usfca.edu/be/vol3/iss1...
September 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thee illustrious Rapsody checked out this syllabus inspired by her album EVE…you should too 🎤😏
repository.usfca.edu/be/vol3/iss1...
repository.usfca.edu/be/vol3/iss1...
“I paid homage and I always mind my business/Never lost who I am for a [academic] image/It's motivation if you wonder how I did it” —Kendrick Lamar, Wacced Out Murals
September 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“I paid homage and I always mind my business/Never lost who I am for a [academic] image/It's motivation if you wonder how I did it” —Kendrick Lamar, Wacced Out Murals
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She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”
www.motherjones.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
She didn't even mean to tell the future ... she was just calculating the most plausible outcomes of racism in America
What is hair? The afterlife of skin. The cells that keep on growing even after we die. The body's process of transforming and leaving a trail. Hair is evidence.
—Alexis Pauline Gumbs
—Alexis Pauline Gumbs
August 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What is hair? The afterlife of skin. The cells that keep on growing even after we die. The body's process of transforming and leaving a trail. Hair is evidence.
—Alexis Pauline Gumbs
—Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social