"I'm just trying to tell the truth and I think in order to do that we will have to invent, in addition to new forms, new modes and new idioms."
—Toni Cade Bambara

Honored and humbled.
My book received the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from AERA Division B.🖤
Save 30% on the paperback until May 31st! 👇🏿

Brazenly stealing this photo from the @sunypress.bsky.social feed to reshare here because one of the things I’m most bummed to have missed at #AERA2025 is seeing @wilsonokello.bsky.social live & in person with his wonderful book, On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means To Be Human 🤩

ON BLACKNESS, LIVELINESS, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development. #AERA2025 #ReadUP at booth 305 and save 30% with code SAERA25 tinyurl.com/2fpecaeu

Looking forward to joining The Possibilities Project at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, for their colloquium. TPP is an arts-informed knowledge hub reimagining education in ways that center the wellbeing of Black youth. Honored to be part of this important work. 🖤 Hope to see you there.

Excited to learn with Dr. Chezare Warren this coming Thursday!

On Mourning, Possibility, and Black Education in the Right Now | 🗓 March 20, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 📍 Virtual Event

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🚨 Tonight at 6:30 PM! 🚨 Join us for a Deep Study Roundtable with Black Study in Education Lab Faculty-in-Residence, Dr. @tichavakunda.bsky.social , as we engage with Derrick Bell’s theory of racial realism. #BlackStudy #DeepStudy #RacialRealism

🚨 Black Possibility as Creative Praxis Webinar🚨

Excited to learn with the brilliant @drtanksley.bsky.social this week!

📅 Feb 27 | 12–1 PM (EST)
📢 The Power and Potentiality of Abolitionist Tech
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/r/jC22BKxRBx

#BlackStudy #AbolitionistTech #CreativePraxis

How do Black creative practices disrupt anti-Black violence in education? Drawing inspiration from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s–70s, this series explores how Black cultural production serves as a tool for healing, resistance, and reimagining education. Join us Thursday; registration below.

👋🏿 new to BlueSky and still figuring it out🙃, but here is a quick intro:
- Assistant Prof. at Penn State
- #creative (performance poetry)
- I read, write, and study at the nexus of #BlackStudies and #Education
- ΚΑΨ ♦️
- #author of #newbook 💫

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Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other!
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An honor to bear witness to Dr. @wilsonokello.bsky.social book talk “On Blackness, Liveliness, & What It Means to Be Human” at Strive Bookstore. Also, loved it happening outside of the sterile conference space in a beautiful Black owned bookstore as Dr. @hallofacademia.bsky.social reminded us.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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