Sarah Jane Cervenak
@sjcerv.bsky.social
Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’
Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’
Views my own
Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’
Views my own
Reposted by Sarah Jane Cervenak
The Kushner revealed “master plan” for Gaza is incendiary, racist, genocidal, and terroristic.
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
The Kushner revealed “master plan” for Gaza is incendiary, racist, genocidal, and terroristic.
“Unbearable, and entire populations are being forced to bear it anyway.”
Dr. Christina Sharpe
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Dr. Christina Sharpe
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
“Unbearable, and entire populations are being forced to bear it anyway.”
Dr. Christina Sharpe
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Dr. Christina Sharpe
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Good morning. Sending love and solidarity to Minneapolis❤️
January 23, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Good morning. Sending love and solidarity to Minneapolis❤️
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“This needs an ending”-Dionne Brand
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
“This needs an ending”-Dionne Brand
Words are hard 💔
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Words are hard 💔
“& so to tenderness, I add my action.”
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay
January 22, 2026 at 9:40 PM
“& so to tenderness, I add my action.”
Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay
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Empire is anti-life; cutting off air, passage. It must end
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Empire is anti-life; cutting off air, passage. It must end
Empire is anti-life; cutting off air, passage. It must end
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Empire is anti-life; cutting off air, passage. It must end
Ice is preventing Black and Brown people from getting home; kids’ walks interrupted. I can’t speak-throat thick with tears
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Ice is preventing Black and Brown people from getting home; kids’ walks interrupted. I can’t speak-throat thick with tears
“This needs an ending”-Dionne Brand
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
“This needs an ending”-Dionne Brand
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Billionaires. Trillionaire. Multimillionaires. And people crowdfunding for blankets so their infants don’t freeze to death, for meds to stay alive, for food and shelter.
Unlivable.
Unlivable.
January 22, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Billionaires. Trillionaire. Multimillionaires. And people crowdfunding for blankets so their infants don’t freeze to death, for meds to stay alive, for food and shelter.
Unlivable.
Unlivable.
A 5 year old. “Detained”
Make these cruel sentences (in every sense) finally impossible
Make these cruel sentences (in every sense) finally impossible
"The poets awoke one morning and found
Like birds fleeing a burning field
Their words had simply up and flown away
No words to talk about what should not be..."
M. NourbeSe Philip, from her poem
"The Poets Awoke"
Like birds fleeing a burning field
Their words had simply up and flown away
No words to talk about what should not be..."
M. NourbeSe Philip, from her poem
"The Poets Awoke"
January 22, 2026 at 12:35 PM
A 5 year old. “Detained”
Make these cruel sentences (in every sense) finally impossible
Make these cruel sentences (in every sense) finally impossible
“These protests, these solidarities, are an attempt to inaugurate a new world.”—Dr. Christina Sharpe 💐
January 22, 2026 at 12:34 AM
“These protests, these solidarities, are an attempt to inaugurate a new world.”—Dr. Christina Sharpe 💐
"The poets awoke one morning and found
Like birds fleeing a burning field
Their words had simply up and flown away
No words to talk about what should not be..."
M. NourbeSe Philip, from her poem
"The Poets Awoke"
Like birds fleeing a burning field
Their words had simply up and flown away
No words to talk about what should not be..."
M. NourbeSe Philip, from her poem
"The Poets Awoke"
January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
"The poets awoke one morning and found
Like birds fleeing a burning field
Their words had simply up and flown away
No words to talk about what should not be..."
M. NourbeSe Philip, from her poem
"The Poets Awoke"
Like birds fleeing a burning field
Their words had simply up and flown away
No words to talk about what should not be..."
M. NourbeSe Philip, from her poem
"The Poets Awoke"
Wow
I had to share. Found this poem about St. Paul, Minnesota ice from June Jordan in her 1980 "From America" poem from her book of poems, Passion. This was in my copy of "Directed by Desire" collected poems of June Jordan.
January 21, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Wow
Imagine threatening to steal a homeland and saying “force” will not be used
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence”
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
January 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Imagine threatening to steal a homeland and saying “force” will not be used
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Sending lots of love to scholars trying to write while teaching. It’s hard and I wanted to acknowledge that with some imaginary flowers and warm cups of tea 🌺🫖
January 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Sending lots of love to scholars trying to write while teaching. It’s hard and I wanted to acknowledge that with some imaginary flowers and warm cups of tea 🌺🫖
Reposted by Sarah Jane Cervenak
at its core, it's still essentially a bluesy love poem... but how can one love freely when a blossoming dictator usurps the reigns of a fascist democracy?
January 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
at its core, it's still essentially a bluesy love poem... but how can one love freely when a blossoming dictator usurps the reigns of a fascist democracy?
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence”
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
January 21, 2026 at 3:18 PM
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence”
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Sending lots of love to scholars trying to write while teaching. It’s hard and I wanted to acknowledge that with some imaginary flowers and warm cups of tea 🌺🫖
January 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Sending lots of love to scholars trying to write while teaching. It’s hard and I wanted to acknowledge that with some imaginary flowers and warm cups of tea 🌺🫖
This is terrible as is the financializing language about the earth…what the earth held to itself as inexhaustible now exhausted
The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is terrible as is the financializing language about the earth…what the earth held to itself as inexhaustible now exhausted
This
Stop differentiating between people without and people with papers.
January 21, 2026 at 1:21 AM
This
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This is an important book. ‘Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: on Liberal Governances of Mobility’ by Dr. Hagar Kotef. @dukepress.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 8:14 PM
This is an important book. ‘Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: on Liberal Governances of Mobility’ by Dr. Hagar Kotef. @dukepress.bsky.social
Reposted by Sarah Jane Cervenak
It’s important to make connections between the policing of Black and Brown movement in the U.S by ICE and the gates and enclosures that govern Palestinian daily existence in Palestine
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
It’s important to make connections between the policing of Black and Brown movement in the U.S by ICE and the gates and enclosures that govern Palestinian daily existence in Palestine
It’s important to make connections between the policing of Black and Brown movement in the U.S by ICE and the gates and enclosures that govern Palestinian daily existence in Palestine
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
It’s important to make connections between the policing of Black and Brown movement in the U.S by ICE and the gates and enclosures that govern Palestinian daily existence in Palestine