Learning of the passing of Alice Wong this morning hit hard. She was such a fierce thinker and activist pushing the disability justice movement forward. May she rest in power as the oracle of an ancestor she claimed, axe.

Nobody is discussing the assassination attempt on George Wallace in 1972 but some mainstream news outlets are comparing that man to Malcolm X which says everything you need to know about the real-time revisionism and whitewashing taking place right now.

“If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?” -Black proverb

Two tracks I can meditate to on repeat: “Jacob and the Stone” x Emile Mosseri & “Hunting Bears” x Radiohead

So much is lost when we use desegregation OR integration to frame & know what happened as one iteration of legalized white supremacy crumbled and a new one emerged.

Folx turn to AI for what we used to turn to a thesaurus for and we are worse off for it…well those who overvalue that “tool” for not thinking

Writing (and grading) my way out today

It’s wild that Biden is the FIRST U.S. president to travel to Angola, ever, smh.

I’m excited to be writing again in one and soon to be two writing groups bc I’ve got too much 🔥🔥🔥 that’s been on the stove too long and needs publishing for the job (academia) but also towards writing for a critical Black education for liberation.

I hope this can be a different place for that and a lot more as the empire crumbles and my late 30s progress on this second run in small town Louisiana after my second 21 month run in Chicago imploded over the past couple of yrs.

Slowly checking in on this app and finding a community bc I really did get a lot out of Twitter community, esp while in grad school and starting off on the TT in Louisiana. Beyond the job ish & academia I also appreciated the political education of many activists, artists, writers, journalists, etc.

Not happy about leaving the hellscape platform but enough was enough. Where my ppls at?!?