~Mrls
@marlas.bsky.social
what does ‘’blx ’’ feminist even mean? | idealist with some pessimist sauce | writing like I’m running out of time | PhD student learning how to diagnose books 📚👀
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~Mrls
@marlas.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Notes on Aloneness
Unloading a notebook
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“How do we be within and serve the community when reciprocity is lacking? We are social creatures, but this troubles me (Are we all social creatures? This is the question I really want to ask)” #Blackademics #Blacksky #PhDSky #Writingsky
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Slowly but surely
I’ve always said I’d return to the RC when a Black lesbian becomes Pope. Incremental progress.
May 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Slowly but surely
We should start making demands yes #academicsky #academicchatter
The next time the MTA raises the fare (because they will) I demand a quiet car on every train.
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We should start making demands yes #academicsky #academicchatter
Yall: "Stop saying the Pope is Black."
Me: "No"
Me: "No"
May 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Dang, me and some of my closest friends all have Master degrees now. Oh time, how you are a construct. #Blackademics #academicchatter #booksky #writersky
May 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Dang, me and some of my closest friends all have Master degrees now. Oh time, how you are a construct. #Blackademics #academicchatter #booksky #writersky
May 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Had a lovely walk in the sprinkling rain with a professor while walking back to the department and it’s one of my fave things that have happened since starting my PhD.
I wish for more moments of humanisms here. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
I wish for more moments of humanisms here. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
May 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Had a lovely walk in the sprinkling rain with a professor while walking back to the department and it’s one of my fave things that have happened since starting my PhD.
I wish for more moments of humanisms here. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
I wish for more moments of humanisms here. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
This and the whole storytime (thx for sharing). As someone who grew up with that conditioning straight from the family, I can attest it is truly difficult to deprogram. (Cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #writingsky
In so many ways both large and small, from birth we are conditioned and forced to subjugate our own needs, wants, and feelings to the more highly prized needs and feelings of boys. It is excruciatingly difficult to deprogram ourselves from that and when we try we are vilified
May 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This and the whole storytime (thx for sharing). As someone who grew up with that conditioning straight from the family, I can attest it is truly difficult to deprogram. (Cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #writingsky
May 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
April 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I used to hate speaking in “generationals” when it first became a thing, bc it was giving divide and conquer.
It still is, but I think more of us talk with nuance about it now.
I like this vid from Becauseimmissy_ on YouTube (cont.) #academicsky #booksky #academicchatter
youtu.be/mjHGucZCYU0?...
It still is, but I think more of us talk with nuance about it now.
I like this vid from Becauseimmissy_ on YouTube (cont.) #academicsky #booksky #academicchatter
youtu.be/mjHGucZCYU0?...
Is Gen Z A Flop Generation?
YouTube video by Becauseimmissy_
youtu.be
April 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I used to hate speaking in “generationals” when it first became a thing, bc it was giving divide and conquer.
It still is, but I think more of us talk with nuance about it now.
I like this vid from Becauseimmissy_ on YouTube (cont.) #academicsky #booksky #academicchatter
youtu.be/mjHGucZCYU0?...
It still is, but I think more of us talk with nuance about it now.
I like this vid from Becauseimmissy_ on YouTube (cont.) #academicsky #booksky #academicchatter
youtu.be/mjHGucZCYU0?...
Yes! Is it too much to ask of us!? It's near the top of my 2025 'to read if you have any f**king time' hit list 😢
April 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
All I want to do is just read all three books of this Divine Comedy #Academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky #booksky
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
All I want to do is just read all three books of this Divine Comedy #Academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky #booksky
This #newblogpost is a reflection on the nature and state of African history, a quiz and a reading list. My hope is that it is a reminder that the failure to study the history of humanity, is an act of self-destruction, and that African history is world history.
folukeafrica.com/african-hist...
folukeafrica.com/african-hist...
African History Quiz I: Pre-colonial Years
Can we study ourselves out of perdition?
folukeafrica.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Reposted by ~Mrls
Believe it or not!
The roller skating community often refers to skates as “8-wheels of freedom.” 🛼💨
#skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Skate #Community #QuadSkating #RollerRink #RetroSkating
The roller skating community often refers to skates as “8-wheels of freedom.” 🛼💨
#skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Skate #Community #QuadSkating #RollerRink #RetroSkating
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Believe it or not!
The roller skating community often refers to skates as “8-wheels of freedom.” 🛼💨
#skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Skate #Community #QuadSkating #RollerRink #RetroSkating
The roller skating community often refers to skates as “8-wheels of freedom.” 🛼💨
#skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Skate #Community #QuadSkating #RollerRink #RetroSkating
I agree with the “liberals and maggots are alike” argument to an extent.
To compare them makes sense within the context of a binary and levels of extremity (cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
To compare them makes sense within the context of a binary and levels of extremity (cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
April 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I agree with the “liberals and maggots are alike” argument to an extent.
To compare them makes sense within the context of a binary and levels of extremity (cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
To compare them makes sense within the context of a binary and levels of extremity (cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
I’m actually quite interested to see how gen alpha’s humor evolves #Blackademics #Academicchatter #academicsky
April 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m actually quite interested to see how gen alpha’s humor evolves #Blackademics #Academicchatter #academicsky
Treating myself to “Sinners” at the theater later this week as an award bc I need an award #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
April 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Treating myself to “Sinners” at the theater later this week as an award bc I need an award #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
April 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The administration “has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to millions of children who are starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, many of these children are likely to die…”
‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
www.theatlantic.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Bc social awareness has dimmed significantly in the last 20-30 years as hyper-individualism has ramped up to the X-treme. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
Where did all these people learn to assume that every post is an invitation for them to talk about themselves, and why didn't they unlearn it by high school?
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Bc social awareness has dimmed significantly in the last 20-30 years as hyper-individualism has ramped up to the X-treme. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky
Oh and capitalism of course. #Blackademics #academicchatter
Literally. The nail should have stayed in the coffin in 2020.
This pedestalizing truly has something to do with fanaticism and religion in the west but my brain can’t today. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter
This pedestalizing truly has something to do with fanaticism and religion in the west but my brain can’t today. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter
It's well past time to divest from celebrity culture, and that includes putting wealthy people on pedestals for... being wealthy,
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oh and capitalism of course. #Blackademics #academicchatter
Literally. The nail should have stayed in the coffin in 2020.
This pedestalizing truly has something to do with fanaticism and religion in the west but my brain can’t today. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter
This pedestalizing truly has something to do with fanaticism and religion in the west but my brain can’t today. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter
It's well past time to divest from celebrity culture, and that includes putting wealthy people on pedestals for... being wealthy,
Gayle King Defends 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’ Backlash:
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
April 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Literally. The nail should have stayed in the coffin in 2020.
This pedestalizing truly has something to do with fanaticism and religion in the west but my brain can’t today. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter
This pedestalizing truly has something to do with fanaticism and religion in the west but my brain can’t today. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter
Not our first and only Black president beginning his two consecutive terms almost 20 years ago. #Blacksky #Blackademics #academicchatter
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Not our first and only Black president beginning his two consecutive terms almost 20 years ago. #Blacksky #Blackademics #academicchatter