ProfKori
@profkori.bsky.social
Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
KorithaMitchell.com
Reposted by ProfKori
Make sure you take your slow deep breaths and enjoy a #MomentofGratitude with @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social ! #LDFShow 866-801-TALK
January 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Make sure you take your slow deep breaths and enjoy a #MomentofGratitude with @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social ! #LDFShow 866-801-TALK
Reposted by ProfKori
Reposted by ProfKori
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
Reposted by ProfKori
I appreciate several things about FIRED UP by @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
January 6, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I appreciate several things about FIRED UP by @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
Reposted by ProfKori
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Reposted by ProfKori
I'm not Christian myself: I personally find the cultural imprint of Empire and missionaries very disturbing
but that's not why the Telegraph happily foments hatred, division, confusion
both for racists and their self-appointed (but often actually clueless, similarly prejudiced, ignorant) opponents
but that's not why the Telegraph happily foments hatred, division, confusion
both for racists and their self-appointed (but often actually clueless, similarly prejudiced, ignorant) opponents
January 6, 2026 at 8:39 AM
I'm not Christian myself: I personally find the cultural imprint of Empire and missionaries very disturbing
but that's not why the Telegraph happily foments hatred, division, confusion
both for racists and their self-appointed (but often actually clueless, similarly prejudiced, ignorant) opponents
but that's not why the Telegraph happily foments hatred, division, confusion
both for racists and their self-appointed (but often actually clueless, similarly prejudiced, ignorant) opponents
Reposted by ProfKori
given that the Telegraph campaign against Lammy wasn't about his Christian values, how best to understand it?
I think the clearest frame is 'know-your-place' aggression
(Dianne Abbot faced this AND misogynoir; both of them get it from a chunk of the British 'left' as well)
I think the clearest frame is 'know-your-place' aggression
(Dianne Abbot faced this AND misogynoir; both of them get it from a chunk of the British 'left' as well)
This beautiful piece reminds me of why “know-your-place aggression” is best understood as distinct from “misogynoir.”
Know-your-place aggression is much broader (while remaining precise) whereas the power of Moya Bailey’s term comes from its specificity.
msmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...
Know-your-place aggression is much broader (while remaining precise) whereas the power of Moya Bailey’s term comes from its specificity.
msmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...
Misogynoir à la Française
A racist caricature of Rokhaya Diallo exposes France’s enduring hostility toward Black women’s power, intellect and visibility.
msmagazine.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
given that the Telegraph campaign against Lammy wasn't about his Christian values, how best to understand it?
I think the clearest frame is 'know-your-place' aggression
(Dianne Abbot faced this AND misogynoir; both of them get it from a chunk of the British 'left' as well)
I think the clearest frame is 'know-your-place' aggression
(Dianne Abbot faced this AND misogynoir; both of them get it from a chunk of the British 'left' as well)
This beautiful piece reminds me of why “know-your-place aggression” is best understood as distinct from “misogynoir.”
Know-your-place aggression is much broader (while remaining precise) whereas the power of Moya Bailey’s term comes from its specificity.
msmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...
Know-your-place aggression is much broader (while remaining precise) whereas the power of Moya Bailey’s term comes from its specificity.
msmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...
Misogynoir à la Française
A racist caricature of Rokhaya Diallo exposes France’s enduring hostility toward Black women’s power, intellect and visibility.
msmagazine.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
This beautiful piece reminds me of why “know-your-place aggression” is best understood as distinct from “misogynoir.”
Know-your-place aggression is much broader (while remaining precise) whereas the power of Moya Bailey’s term comes from its specificity.
msmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...
Know-your-place aggression is much broader (while remaining precise) whereas the power of Moya Bailey’s term comes from its specificity.
msmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...
Reposted by ProfKori
📅 City Council Formal Meeting
🕝 Wednesday, January 7 | 2:30–5:00 PM
🔗 Watch Live and Participate: linktr.ee/PHX.District7
🕝 Wednesday, January 7 | 2:30–5:00 PM
🔗 Watch Live and Participate: linktr.ee/PHX.District7
Councilwoman Anna Hernandez | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree
City of Phoenix District 7 CouncilWoman Anna Hernandez #PeoplePower | Official account for Phoenix District 7 Council Office
linktr.ee
January 7, 2026 at 2:45 AM
📅 City Council Formal Meeting
🕝 Wednesday, January 7 | 2:30–5:00 PM
🔗 Watch Live and Participate: linktr.ee/PHX.District7
🕝 Wednesday, January 7 | 2:30–5:00 PM
🔗 Watch Live and Participate: linktr.ee/PHX.District7
Reposted by ProfKori
#Phoenix #CityCouncil is making decisions that directly impact #District7 communities.
These votes shape not just policy, but who decides, how decisions are made, and who the city is built for.
These votes shape not just policy, but who decides, how decisions are made, and who the city is built for.
Councilwoman Anna Hernandez | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree
City of Phoenix District 7 CouncilWoman Anna Hernandez #PeoplePower | Official account for Phoenix District 7 Council Office
linktr.ee
January 7, 2026 at 2:45 AM
#Phoenix #CityCouncil is making decisions that directly impact #District7 communities.
These votes shape not just policy, but who decides, how decisions are made, and who the city is built for.
These votes shape not just policy, but who decides, how decisions are made, and who the city is built for.
Reposted by ProfKori
YES! We don't want this!!! //
The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
YES! We don't want this!!! //
The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Reposted by ProfKori
Life Writing’s Uses and Abuses
Saturday, 10 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 707
Presider Koritha Mitchell Boston U
See pic for full list of titles and presenters
Also attached Thursday and Friday sessions on American literature before 1900
Saturday, 10 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 707
Presider Koritha Mitchell Boston U
See pic for full list of titles and presenters
Also attached Thursday and Friday sessions on American literature before 1900
![FRIDAY
199 Declaring Dependence
Ben Bascom, West Virginia U, Morgantown and Ben Bascom, West Virginia U, Morgantown
Friday, 9 January 2026
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
MTCC - 605
235 Thermal Melville
Jeffrey Insko, Oakland U
Friday, 9 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 801A
Melville and the Geopolitics of Reading
Melville Society
Friday, 9 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 712
304 Technology and Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Heather E. Ostman, Westchester Community C, State U of New York
Friday, 9 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM [VIRTUAL]
338 Thoreau’s Revolutions
Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern U
Friday, 9 January 2026
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
MTCC - 707](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nnzedumt6dbnzfxm3yorojvx/bafkreigoux5zbwbkjs6a7hixlgkl4jh2fzxxt6m7vwp4iwogfyokkwotcq@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Life Writing’s Uses and Abuses
Saturday, 10 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 707
Presider Koritha Mitchell Boston U
See pic for full list of titles and presenters
Also attached Thursday and Friday sessions on American literature before 1900
Saturday, 10 January 2026
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
MTCC - 707
Presider Koritha Mitchell Boston U
See pic for full list of titles and presenters
Also attached Thursday and Friday sessions on American literature before 1900
Reposted by ProfKori
#MLA2026 #Toronto
LLC 19th Century American Forum's Sponsored Sessions
RESOLUTION!!!!!!
Thurs 8 Jan 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 606
To protest the MLA’s suppression of Resolution 2025-1, discuss how to organize, teach, research c19 American lit committed to staying, fighting
Presider Xine Yao
LLC 19th Century American Forum's Sponsored Sessions
RESOLUTION!!!!!!
Thurs 8 Jan 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
MTCC - 606
To protest the MLA’s suppression of Resolution 2025-1, discuss how to organize, teach, research c19 American lit committed to staying, fighting
Presider Xine Yao
January 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by ProfKori
Damn protect women!!
Woman lying in Boston Medical Center ER, paralyzed on one side of her body, was raped by man in for a psych stay who was supposed to be supervised, but wasn't, DA says
www.universalhub.com/crime/2026/w...
#crime
www.universalhub.com/crime/2026/w...
#crime
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Damn protect women!!
Reposted by ProfKori
Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
I appreciate several things about FIRED UP by @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
January 6, 2026 at 1:28 PM
I appreciate several things about FIRED UP by @shannonrwatts.bsky.social
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
One is that it understands what I would call "know-your-place aggression" by speaking in terms of "blowback" (which is quite appropriate for the fire analogy, of course).
Reposted by ProfKori
If any media outlets want to talk about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I'm currently writing the official history of public meeting for the CPB and Current, and I'm available.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board voted to close the organization after 58 years after the Trump Administration ended funding.
variety.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
If any media outlets want to talk about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I'm currently writing the official history of public meeting for the CPB and Current, and I'm available.
Reposted by ProfKori
Hi, I work on abortion rights in Colorado & have for 17 years. Every time I hear 'you need to moderate on abortion' my response is 'we never have and we've never lost'.
We put abortion rights in the state constitution in 2024 without gestational limits and with 62% of the vote statewide.
We put abortion rights in the state constitution in 2024 without gestational limits and with 62% of the vote statewide.
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Hi, I work on abortion rights in Colorado & have for 17 years. Every time I hear 'you need to moderate on abortion' my response is 'we never have and we've never lost'.
We put abortion rights in the state constitution in 2024 without gestational limits and with 62% of the vote statewide.
We put abortion rights in the state constitution in 2024 without gestational limits and with 62% of the vote statewide.
Reposted by ProfKori
"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.
IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about.
Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.
Reposted by ProfKori
THIS RIGHT HERE
There is going to be an after him time. It's crazy how many folks are completely burning down their reps and credibility. They have a $50+ billion endowment. What is the point of having F U money, if you're too scared to tell somebody F U?
Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
January 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
THIS RIGHT HERE
Reposted by ProfKori
Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Dunster House Resident Dean Gregory Davis Removed After Resurfaced Social Media Posts | News | The Harvard Crimson
Gregory K. Davis was removed from his post as Dunster House resident dean effective immediately, according to a message circulated to House affiliates Monday morning.
www.thecrimson.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Reposted by ProfKori
Just a few spots left in this memoir workshop, which runs from February through November 2026 and is my favorite class to teach. Now holding off on new acceptances until the deadline so I can consider every application that comes in. Apply by Jan. 24! @thewriterscenter.bsky.social
Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:
Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center
Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...
writer.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Just a few spots left in this memoir workshop, which runs from February through November 2026 and is my favorite class to teach. Now holding off on new acceptances until the deadline so I can consider every application that comes in. Apply by Jan. 24! @thewriterscenter.bsky.social
Reposted by ProfKori
Dear stomach: I know you spent the last 2 weeks with free access to cookies & other treats during waking hours. I swear you are not starving just because I'm back to eating regular meals. Please calm down!
January 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Dear stomach: I know you spent the last 2 weeks with free access to cookies & other treats during waking hours. I swear you are not starving just because I'm back to eating regular meals. Please calm down!
Reposted by ProfKori
Petty
And outrageous
And outrageous
Pete Hegseth says the military has started administrative actions against Sen. Mark Kelly — for his video saying that service members should refuse illegal orders — that could result in a reduction in his retirement rank and military pension.
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Petty
And outrageous
And outrageous