Alyasah Ali Sewell, Your Public Sociologist for the Day
@aasewell.bsky.social
Winship Distinguished Research Prof & Associate Prof of Sociology at Emory. Critical Racism Studies & Intersectionality. Black Feminist. Gender Expansive. Lefty. #Blackademic. ✊🏾🌈
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Emory Hillandale is a great hospital. It is a community hospital that serves the needs of people and neighborhoods who had little access to major medical services. I believe most of the negative sentiments are drenched in internalized racism and racist stereotypes of black communities. Forget them.
June 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Emory Hillandale is a great hospital. It is a community hospital that serves the needs of people and neighborhoods who had little access to major medical services. I believe most of the negative sentiments are drenched in internalized racism and racist stereotypes of black communities. Forget them.
Just saying thanks, @moyazb.bsky.social. More than ever, we need our Quirky Black Girls.
Clearing space for #BlackWomen today, I’m reminded of the strength I found in Quirky Black Girls. We need that spirit now more than ever. Check out this interview with Moya Bailey & L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire on holding space for counternarratives.
youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...
youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...
How Dr. Moya Bailey Stays Centered in Liberation
YouTube video by L: Empress of Ease
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June 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Just saying thanks, @moyazb.bsky.social. More than ever, we need our Quirky Black Girls.
Clearing space for #BlackWomen today, I’m reminded of the strength I found in Quirky Black Girls. We need that spirit now more than ever. Check out this interview with Moya Bailey & L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire on holding space for counternarratives.
youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...
youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...
How Dr. Moya Bailey Stays Centered in Liberation
YouTube video by L: Empress of Ease
youtu.be
June 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Clearing space for #BlackWomen today, I’m reminded of the strength I found in Quirky Black Girls. We need that spirit now more than ever. Check out this interview with Moya Bailey & L’erin Asantewaa of SisterFire on holding space for counternarratives.
youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...
youtu.be/NV7zfWOmFhA?...
If Texas voters can do it, so can we:
“Over the past weekend, several candidates in suburban Texas school districts who opposed book bans won their elections, defeating conservative officials who had supported and implemented such policies in recent years.”
truthout.org/articles/vot...
“Over the past weekend, several candidates in suburban Texas school districts who opposed book bans won their elections, defeating conservative officials who had supported and implemented such policies in recent years.”
truthout.org/articles/vot...
Texas Voters Oust Several Book-Banning Incumbents in School District Elections
Texas school districts have banned hundreds of titles over the past few years, leading the country in banning books.
truthout.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If Texas voters can do it, so can we:
“Over the past weekend, several candidates in suburban Texas school districts who opposed book bans won their elections, defeating conservative officials who had supported and implemented such policies in recent years.”
truthout.org/articles/vot...
“Over the past weekend, several candidates in suburban Texas school districts who opposed book bans won their elections, defeating conservative officials who had supported and implemented such policies in recent years.”
truthout.org/articles/vot...
Trump’s ascendancy begins with the 2008 Wall Street collapse. The Great Recession marked the rise of a populist movement that personified systemic racism.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Opinion | The weekend that shook the world
Seventeen years ago, Bear Stearns collapsed over a weekend — what lessons remain today?
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trump’s ascendancy begins with the 2008 Wall Street collapse. The Great Recession marked the rise of a populist movement that personified systemic racism.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
Jasmine Crockett is my new Superhero.
March 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Jasmine Crockett is my new Superhero.
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The US was certain it could beat the Vietnamese into submission
The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work
Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia
It really ain’t over until it’s over
The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work
Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia
It really ain’t over until it’s over
March 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The US was certain it could beat the Vietnamese into submission
The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work
Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia
It really ain’t over until it’s over
The Montgomery Bus Boycott looked for a long while like it wouldn’t work
Napoleon had a better prepared army than Russia
It really ain’t over until it’s over
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Just listened to a great conversation between Peniel Joseph and @darrickhamilton.bsky.social. Hamilton breaks down the racial wealth gap and why we need policy that invests in people. His insights on the path forward from neoliberalism and oligarchy are essential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Ep. 86 — Reimagining Wealth Disparities: Barriers, Policy, and Pathways Forward
Podcast Episode · Race and Democracy · 03/07/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just listened to a great conversation between Peniel Joseph and @darrickhamilton.bsky.social. Hamilton breaks down the racial wealth gap and why we need policy that invests in people. His insights on the path forward from neoliberalism and oligarchy are essential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!
March 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!
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You can choose to watch tonight if you want, but please believe you don't have to. I'm a whole public policy professor who will just read the news tomorrow.
March 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Happy Women’s History Month! Coming into March pretty and witty!
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Happy Women’s History Month! Coming into March pretty and witty!
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Openly call it a coup and hostile occupation
The most reliable counter to a fascist coup is a popular front uprising.
The most effective thing opposition leaders can do is call the situation what it is & start building it.
We must show that this Govt is as illegitimate as the Vichy Govt was.
The most reliable counter to a fascist coup is a popular front uprising.
The most effective thing opposition leaders can do is call the situation what it is & start building it.
We must show that this Govt is as illegitimate as the Vichy Govt was.
February 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Openly call it a coup and hostile occupation
The most reliable counter to a fascist coup is a popular front uprising.
The most effective thing opposition leaders can do is call the situation what it is & start building it.
We must show that this Govt is as illegitimate as the Vichy Govt was.
The most reliable counter to a fascist coup is a popular front uprising.
The most effective thing opposition leaders can do is call the situation what it is & start building it.
We must show that this Govt is as illegitimate as the Vichy Govt was.
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Walk out. We are not united in any way...and being there seems complicit. Show solidarity to the Americans that still support the constitution.
March 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Walk out. We are not united in any way...and being there seems complicit. Show solidarity to the Americans that still support the constitution.
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This is one big problem with these laws. If I am supposed to use women's rooms, then many many cis men can too, WAY more easily than having to convince someone they're trans women.
Exactly, if we're telling this guy that he has to use the women's bathroom, anyone that looks like this guy can also just walk in there.
(No shade to this guy at all, it's Jammi Dodger, one of my favorite youtubers!)
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(No shade to this guy at all, it's Jammi Dodger, one of my favorite youtubers!)
bsky.app/profile/eall...
February 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is one big problem with these laws. If I am supposed to use women's rooms, then many many cis men can too, WAY more easily than having to convince someone they're trans women.
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The only sentence in those executive orders they don't take seriously is the one about how the order "does not have the force of law."
February 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The only sentence in those executive orders they don't take seriously is the one about how the order "does not have the force of law."
Chair’s Notes from Emory Admin:
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Chair’s Notes from Emory Admin:
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
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It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there
February 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there
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#BlackHistoryMonth Isaac Woodard survived WWII only to return to America from Asia and become disabled due to police violence in the South. He was beaten and blinded by police. His case made #BlackHistory and led to the desegregation of the federal government and military.
#BlackSky #DisabilitySky
#BlackSky #DisabilitySky
February 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth Isaac Woodard survived WWII only to return to America from Asia and become disabled due to police violence in the South. He was beaten and blinded by police. His case made #BlackHistory and led to the desegregation of the federal government and military.
#BlackSky #DisabilitySky
#BlackSky #DisabilitySky
If I have spent over half of my life fighting for my dignity, what do you think I will do for the last half?
February 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If I have spent over half of my life fighting for my dignity, what do you think I will do for the last half?
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back in the day, in the 70s when I was in high school, we walked out for womens rights, abortion rights, gay rights, ending the war, civil rights, social justice, public school funding. if anything can, the youth will save us.
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
back in the day, in the 70s when I was in high school, we walked out for womens rights, abortion rights, gay rights, ending the war, civil rights, social justice, public school funding. if anything can, the youth will save us.
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STUDENT WALK OUT- OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES CITY HALL:
High school students from all over LA have walked out of class and gathered in front of city hall to protest the president’s fascist agenda. SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH! FUCK ICE!
High school students from all over LA have walked out of class and gathered in front of city hall to protest the president’s fascist agenda. SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH! FUCK ICE!
February 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
STUDENT WALK OUT- OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES CITY HALL:
High school students from all over LA have walked out of class and gathered in front of city hall to protest the president’s fascist agenda. SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH! FUCK ICE!
High school students from all over LA have walked out of class and gathered in front of city hall to protest the president’s fascist agenda. SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH! FUCK ICE!