Renée A Craft (She/Her)
@reneeacraft.bsky.social
Black feminist writer, scholar & educator | Exploring Blackness, cultural performance, & imagination as a tool for liberation | Prof. of Comm. & Global Studies UNC-CH | Director SOHP | Listener, storytelling, memory-worker | Mom, Daughter, Wife
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Let’s please make sure that our community has ACCURATE information? I understand the concern but let’s be strategic and on point in identifying imminent threats.
Please circulate. @esglaude.bsky.social
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Please circulate. @esglaude.bsky.social
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Statement on Smithsonian Collection Items | Smithsonian Institution
Recent reports about the Smithsonian removing the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and National Museum of African American Hi...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Let’s please make sure that our community has ACCURATE information? I understand the concern but let’s be strategic and on point in identifying imminent threats.
Please circulate. @esglaude.bsky.social
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Please circulate. @esglaude.bsky.social
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Rereading Octavia Butler's Wild Seed while re-listening to Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 project with this question in mind: How can those with a decolonial mindset and approach to power thrive alongside those with a colonial mindset and approach to power w/o being enslaved, exploited, or eaten alive?
January 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rereading Octavia Butler's Wild Seed while re-listening to Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 project with this question in mind: How can those with a decolonial mindset and approach to power thrive alongside those with a colonial mindset and approach to power w/o being enslaved, exploited, or eaten alive?
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A growing number of younger women are being diagnosed with breast cancer, according to new estimates released Thursday by the American Cancer Society. Experts point to a few likely causes.
Why Are More Young Women Being Diagnosed With Breast Cancer?
A new report points to a notable increase among U.S. women under 50. Experts point to a few likely causes.
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January 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A growing number of younger women are being diagnosed with breast cancer, according to new estimates released Thursday by the American Cancer Society. Experts point to a few likely causes.
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December 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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True luxury is found in the simplest moments.
December 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
True luxury is found in the simplest moments.
Every child deserves to have new worlds at their fingertips--to learn to travel across time, space, and ways of being/belong--books are a means of transformation & transportation. Help support Flyleaf Books and Book Harvest by contributing books from their wishlist. flyleafbooks.com/wishlist/cre...
December 13, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Every child deserves to have new worlds at their fingertips--to learn to travel across time, space, and ways of being/belong--books are a means of transformation & transportation. Help support Flyleaf Books and Book Harvest by contributing books from their wishlist. flyleafbooks.com/wishlist/cre...
Witnessing the unveiling of the mural of Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone last night at UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History was deeply moving, powerful, and right. Artist Angelika Wallace-Whitfield did a stunning job honoring her beauty, boldness, and light.
December 12, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Witnessing the unveiling of the mural of Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone last night at UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History was deeply moving, powerful, and right. Artist Angelika Wallace-Whitfield did a stunning job honoring her beauty, boldness, and light.
Another bright light winked out here, but blazes elsewhere. The legacy you left is a beacon. So, refractions of your light will always and ever be visible in this place too. #RestInPower #RestInPeace #RestInLove
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Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81
The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.
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December 10, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Another bright light winked out here, but blazes elsewhere. The legacy you left is a beacon. So, refractions of your light will always and ever be visible in this place too. #RestInPower #RestInPeace #RestInLove
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I created a starter pack for folks who work in and/or are interested in the intersection of #DigitalHumanities and #libraries. Happy to add folks!
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November 14, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I created a starter pack for folks who work in and/or are interested in the intersection of #DigitalHumanities and #libraries. Happy to add folks!
go.bsky.app/Fg9dqjc
go.bsky.app/Fg9dqjc