TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS
Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute
July 18th

"We will gather as teachers, community-based educators, and scholars to offer practical application of ideas, resources, and techniques that can be applied in our collective learning spaces."

go.umd.edu/transgress

Still mad—and with good reason.

Today is the release date for the audiobook of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: MADNESS AND BLACK RADICAL CREATIVITY. I'm grateful to @dukepress.bsky.social for continued investment in my work, even four years after initial publication.

REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
History, Theory, Strategy

This course is a gathering place and thought laboratory for people passionate about activism, movement building, social transformation, and liberation...

"You are evеrything. You have everything you need."
—Sade Adu

"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to."
—Toni Morrison

"I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”
—Frantz Fanon

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
—Ida B. Wells-Barnett

"Human beings are magical. Bios and Logos. Words made flesh, muscle and bone animated by hope and desire, belief materialized in deeds, deeds which crystallize our actualities..."
—Sylvia Wynter

"Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually—without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about."
—Lorraine Hansberry

“I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”
—Nina Simone

"Everybody is a star. The only problem is some people haven't been put in the dipper and poured back on the world."
–Little Richard, invoking Sly Stone

"There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."
–Octavia Butler

"It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator, or rebel. Who did he love? It makes a difference."
—Essex Hemphill