Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
@reineayiti.bsky.social
Feminist, scholar, spouse, writer, local organizer, mother, and lover of Jesus passionate about justice and improving the lives of Black women and girls globally
Join us on 11/12 for a lecture by Dr. Tiffany Bailey our postdoctoral fellow in Black Feminist Studies
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Join us on 11/12 for a lecture by Dr. Tiffany Bailey our postdoctoral fellow in Black Feminist Studies
Writing this “welcome letter” to AY 2025-26 hit so different this year.
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Director’s Welcome
Greetings! I hope that this message finds each of you as well as can be. As I welcome you to this new academic year, I am reminded again that Africana Studies is a discipline born of struggle, sustain...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Writing this “welcome letter” to AY 2025-26 hit so different this year.
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"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
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"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
A Conversation with Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard’s bestselling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and puni…
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October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
@policingblack.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."
“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.” bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)
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Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
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Day 1 of #1000wordsaday writing challenge felt so good. And went by faster thank expected! #amwriting #proflife #book4
June 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Day 1 of #1000wordsaday writing challenge felt so good. And went by faster thank expected! #amwriting #proflife #book4
How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...
How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past
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June 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Octavia Butler’s mother gave her the gift of a typewriter for her 10th birthday. Toni Cade Bambara’s mother swept around her and did not disturb her as she created on the kitchen floor. As a mother their actions convicted me. What am I doing to nurture Black girl genius?
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Octavia Butler’s mother gave her the gift of a typewriter for her 10th birthday. Toni Cade Bambara’s mother swept around her and did not disturb her as she created on the kitchen floor. As a mother their actions convicted me. What am I doing to nurture Black girl genius?
I’ve spent the past two days thinking and writing in community with a wonderful group of people at @radcliffe.institute for a seminar on. The Environmental Writer-Activist. So grateful for the time to sit with thoughts and good people.
April 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’ve spent the past two days thinking and writing in community with a wonderful group of people at @radcliffe.institute for a seminar on. The Environmental Writer-Activist. So grateful for the time to sit with thoughts and good people.
“Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
April 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving.” Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“From what I’ve read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.” Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“From what I’ve read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.” Lauren Olamina in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the final book on my syllabus for Black Women Lead. I can’t wait to hear how students are processing this novel today and what it has to teach us about leadership.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the final book on my syllabus for Black Women Lead. I can’t wait to hear how students are processing this novel today and what it has to teach us about leadership.
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Happy book birthday! Congratulations! This is a big day! I love connecting with authors on launch day. And the title looks great. Just bought a copy. And look at you #1 in new release! 🙌📙🎉
March 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Happy book birthday! Congratulations! This is a big day! I love connecting with authors on launch day. And the title looks great. Just bought a copy. And look at you #1 in new release! 🙌📙🎉
Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus
March 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Join us on 3/27 for our final @nu_africana event “New Books in Black Feminist Studies” in conjunction with @GCWSatMIT we are excited to welcome back Dr. Meredith Clark & welcome @mfphillips Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones to campus
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Even though I teach the ways that power functions to make this less clear to people it still majes my head hurt that people don't seem to get this.
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Even though I teach the ways that power functions to make this less clear to people it still majes my head hurt that people don't seem to get this.
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.” —Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Happy Women’s Day!
Happy Women’s Day!
March 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.” —Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Happy Women’s Day!
Happy Women’s Day!
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.” -Mayor Michelle Wu @mayorwu.boston.gov
March 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 “A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.” -Mayor Michelle Wu @mayorwu.boston.gov
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 6. "I’m an African feminist who believes deeply in the power of art and artistic expression in changing the world. My feminist work has largely been centered on pan-African, feminist and environmental activism." -Nana Akosua Hanson
March 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 6. "I’m an African feminist who believes deeply in the power of art and artistic expression in changing the world. My feminist work has largely been centered on pan-African, feminist and environmental activism." -Nana Akosua Hanson
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 5 "My life journey, my numerous personal experiences, and my political and ideological stance have led me to understand that, as a black woman, I need power in all its manifestations and within all the spaces I occupy." --Pascale Solages @PascaleSolages
March 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 5 "My life journey, my numerous personal experiences, and my political and ideological stance have led me to understand that, as a black woman, I need power in all its manifestations and within all the spaces I occupy." --Pascale Solages @PascaleSolages
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 Day 3. “Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.”
-Fannie Lou Hamer
-Fannie Lou Hamer
March 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
#WomensHistoryMonth2025 Day 3. “Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.”
-Fannie Lou Hamer
-Fannie Lou Hamer