Azsaneé Truss, PhD
@azsaneet.bsky.social
she/her | Thinking Artist | new @annenbergpenn.bsky.social alum | Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoc
https://www.azsaneetruss.com/
https://www.azsaneetruss.com/
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There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu
NYC friends! Come through next Friday!
September 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
NYC friends! Come through next Friday!
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We are excited to reconvene Center alums: @hannamorris.bsky.social, @muira.bsky.social, @richardstupart.com @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social @cratebeats.bsky.social @azsaneet.bsky.social @sristovska.bsky.social @rouxpz.bsky.social & more! We hope you can join us! Register here: bit.ly/42NTpii
Beyond Endurance: Reimagining Media Praxis
This year our symposium will envision new possibilities for media research and practice that center creativity, community and hope.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We are excited to reconvene Center alums: @hannamorris.bsky.social, @muira.bsky.social, @richardstupart.com @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social @cratebeats.bsky.social @azsaneet.bsky.social @sristovska.bsky.social @rouxpz.bsky.social & more! We hope you can join us! Register here: bit.ly/42NTpii
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🎓 🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. graduates!! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates
www.asc.upenn.edu
May 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🎓 🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. graduates!! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Helped make a few more PhDs this year and yep this is one of the absolute best part
Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones
Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones
May 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Helped make a few more PhDs this year and yep this is one of the absolute best part
Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones
Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones
Now that I’ve defended, the way I sprinkle a lil “Dr.” or “PhD” on EVERYTHING. Email signature, bio, plane ticket, packages. If it has my name on it, there’s a prefix or suffix now
a man wearing sunglasses and a white shirt holds something in his hands
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a white shirt holds something in his hands
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Now that I’ve defended, the way I sprinkle a lil “Dr.” or “PhD” on EVERYTHING. Email signature, bio, plane ticket, packages. If it has my name on it, there’s a prefix or suffix now
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Research for Solutions brings together voices of researchers, community org partners, & members of impacted communities to discuss interventions to firearm related violence. Hosted by @sonalirajan.bsky.social; S1 produced by @azsaneet.bsky.social & @jriinaferrie.bsky.social
researchforsolutions.com
researchforsolutions.com
(Re)Search For Solutions
researchforsolutions.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Research for Solutions brings together voices of researchers, community org partners, & members of impacted communities to discuss interventions to firearm related violence. Hosted by @sonalirajan.bsky.social; S1 produced by @azsaneet.bsky.social & @jriinaferrie.bsky.social
researchforsolutions.com
researchforsolutions.com
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Groovin’ Griot is a podcast about how we use dance to tell stories. Hosts @azsaneet.bsky.social & OreOluwa Badaki talk with researchers and dancers to help unpack the role of dance in research; In their conversations, they talk roots, rhythm, community, & more.
www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...
www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...
Groovin Griot | Media | Digital Futures Institute (DFI) | Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College Digital Futures Institute (DFI) is an interdisciplinary hub for digital innovation, with a mission to advance more just social futures that is driven by research, pedagogy, and public...
www.tc.columbia.edu
April 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Groovin’ Griot is a podcast about how we use dance to tell stories. Hosts @azsaneet.bsky.social & OreOluwa Badaki talk with researchers and dancers to help unpack the role of dance in research; In their conversations, they talk roots, rhythm, community, & more.
www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...
www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...
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🎉 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social who successfully defended her dissertation, “Conspi(racism): Subversive Ideas in Black American Art & Media," last Friday!
April 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
🎉 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social who successfully defended her dissertation, “Conspi(racism): Subversive Ideas in Black American Art & Media," last Friday!
I did a thing!
🎉 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social who successfully defended her dissertation, “Conspi(racism): Subversive Ideas in Black American Art & Media," last Friday!
April 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I did a thing!
I'll be speaking at an incredible symposium, Feminism and the Far Right, at Goldsmiths on June 6th! It'll be early on the east coast but worth setting your alarm for ⏰ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...
Feminism and the Far-Right
A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'll be speaking at an incredible symposium, Feminism and the Far Right, at Goldsmiths on June 6th! It'll be early on the east coast but worth setting your alarm for ⏰ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...
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🎉Congrats to Annenberg doctoral candidates Lucila Rozas Urrunaga, Farrah Rahaman, and Azsaneé Truss for receiving 2025 Sachs Program Grants, which will fund their creative projects. Learn about their projects here:
Three Annenberg Doctoral Candidates Receive 2025 Sachs Program Grants
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April 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🎉Congrats to Annenberg doctoral candidates Lucila Rozas Urrunaga, Farrah Rahaman, and Azsaneé Truss for receiving 2025 Sachs Program Grants, which will fund their creative projects. Learn about their projects here:
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Charles Mills hive, wya!?
I’m nothing if not a Mills stan. Go read my work in Media Theory!
Thinking back on how Charles Mills reframed the social contract as a racial contract, @azsaneet.bsky.social asks "what if the social construction of race is, in and of itself, a conspiracy?" #race #Black #racism #conspiracy https://buff.ly/4aSyygC
March 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Charles Mills hive, wya!?
I’m done drafting all of my dissertation chapters & this weekend I have nothing to do because I’m waiting on feedback. I’ve been twiddling my thumbs all day — I literally do not know what to do with free time any more 🙃
March 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m done drafting all of my dissertation chapters & this weekend I have nothing to do because I’m waiting on feedback. I’ve been twiddling my thumbs all day — I literally do not know what to do with free time any more 🙃
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Azsaneé Truss considers how #conspiracy theorizing among #Black #Americans draws on "critical (more honest) histories" that the dominant public often ignores. mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/26/a...
March 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Azsaneé Truss considers how #conspiracy theorizing among #Black #Americans draws on "critical (more honest) histories" that the dominant public often ignores. mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/26/a...
This is the 3rd week in a row I’m listening to The Read & it’s nothing but Target ads for the first 10 mins smh
March 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is the 3rd week in a row I’m listening to The Read & it’s nothing but Target ads for the first 10 mins smh
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NEW: Two Philly-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the @upenn.edu president on Tuesday after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”
One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...
One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...
Philly-area lawmakers walk out of meeting with Penn president over DEI cuts
A Pennsylvania state senator and state representative left the meeting after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”
whyy.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
NEW: Two Philly-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the @upenn.edu president on Tuesday after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”
One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...
One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...
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what if we just *didn't* write conclusion paragraphs? what if we all just agreed to stop... amirite?
February 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
what if we just *didn't* write conclusion paragraphs? what if we all just agreed to stop... amirite?
I know there are bigger things happening in the world. But today I just can’t believe i keep having to do dishes. Every day. Washing dishes. It never ends
February 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I know there are bigger things happening in the world. But today I just can’t believe i keep having to do dishes. Every day. Washing dishes. It never ends
As expected smh
Linda McMahon, Trump’s nominee for education secretary, said she’s not “quite certain” whether African American studies would be allowed under Trump’s executive order
Here’s What Linda McMahon, Nominee for Education Secretary, Had to Say About Higher Ed
She discussed dismantling the Education Department, investigating colleges over antisemitism and DEI, and increasing access to noncollege opportunities.
www.chronicle.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
As expected smh
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“It’s meant to create chaos in higher education, and in that it’s been successful. The responses are all over the map.”
– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on Trump's attempts to end D.E.I. activity on campuses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on Trump's attempts to end D.E.I. activity on campuses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
Some Schools Act After Trump’s D.E.I. Orders. Others Say They’ll Resist.
Some universities are scrubbing websites and canceling events to comply with executive orders targeting diversity efforts. Other schools are promising to resist.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“It’s meant to create chaos in higher education, and in that it’s been successful. The responses are all over the map.”
– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on Trump's attempts to end D.E.I. activity on campuses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on Trump's attempts to end D.E.I. activity on campuses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
I’m nothing if not a Mills stan. Go read my work in Media Theory!
Thinking back on how Charles Mills reframed the social contract as a racial contract, @azsaneet.bsky.social asks "what if the social construction of race is, in and of itself, a conspiracy?" #race #Black #racism #conspiracy https://buff.ly/4aSyygC
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m nothing if not a Mills stan. Go read my work in Media Theory!
Reposted by Azsaneé Truss, PhD
Thinking back on how Charles Mills reframed the social contract as a racial contract, @azsaneet.bsky.social asks "what if the social construction of race is, in and of itself, a conspiracy?" #race #Black #racism #conspiracy https://buff.ly/4aSyygC
February 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thinking back on how Charles Mills reframed the social contract as a racial contract, @azsaneet.bsky.social asks "what if the social construction of race is, in and of itself, a conspiracy?" #race #Black #racism #conspiracy https://buff.ly/4aSyygC