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Kristin Moriah
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Associate Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies Queen's University | Queen's University Department of English | Editor of "Insensible of Boundaries" (@pennpress.bsky.social 2025)| Human Animal
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Thrilled to be able to announce that I have been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Feminist Technologies and Artistic Praxis!

www.queensu.ca/gazette/stor...
Queen’s welcomes five new Canada Research Chairs | Queen's Gazette
In addition to the new positions, three current chairs have been renewed. Announcement also included new research support funding.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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demonicgrounds.bsky.social
writing residency.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
dark-stars.bsky.social
Today at 1 PM! Join us to learn more about “Insensible of Boundaries: Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary.”
congrelib.bsky.social Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social · Jun 5
Juneteenth is two weeks away, and we hope you’re making plans to spend an hour with us at 1 pm EDT hearing Dr. Kristin Moriah speak about the life and legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

Registration for this virtual talk is free and open to all at congregationallibrary.org/events/insen...
June 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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pennpress.bsky.social
EVENT: Don't miss @dark-stars.bsky.social discussing her new edited volume INSENSIBLE OF BOUNDARIES in a virtual book talk hosted by @congrelib.bsky.social for their 2025 Juneteenth Lecture on Thursday 6/19 at 1 p.m. ET! Register today to reserve your spot.
Insensible of Boundaries | Congregational Library & Archives
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June 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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dark-stars.bsky.social
The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.
June 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The 2025 edition of the Black Studies Summer Seminar considers ways of being together while asking: what do we owe each other in this constellation of Black study?

Join us for our public keynotes on June 9th, 10th and 11th. Tickets are available here: blk-s3tudies.com/events
June 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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congrelib.bsky.social
Juneteenth is two weeks away, and we hope you’re making plans to spend an hour with us at 1 pm EDT hearing Dr. Kristin Moriah speak about the life and legacy of Mary Ann Shadd Cary.

Registration for this virtual talk is free and open to all at congregationallibrary.org/events/insen...
June 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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SUMMER READING SALE! Save 40% on all available books on pennpress.org with code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, now through Friday, June 20!
June 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The @pennpress.bsky.social Summer Reading Sale begins today! The sale provides 40% off all available books on pennpress.org when customers use promo code PENN-SUMMER25 at checkout, and it runs through Friday, June 20th. It’s a great time to get “Insensible of Boundaries”.
June 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fourth of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current Legacy, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s amazing study of Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, & Black library use & creation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Details from two photographs showing individual African American women: at left, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and, at right, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Both are head and shoulders pictures. Mossell’s body is turned slightly to her right, but she faces the camera slightly to her left. Harper’s body is turned to more to her right, but her face aims directly at us. Both are in fashionable late nineteenth-century dresses. Mossell’s hair is up, and Harper’s is pulled back.
May 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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congrelib.bsky.social
Make plans to join us for our 2025 Juneteenth Lecture, a virtual talk with Dr. Kristin Moriah about her book, “Insensible of Boundaries,” and learn more about trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893).
May 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. Here’s the second of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current issue of Legacy, the powerful “We Need to Speak about Home” by Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
A contemporary color photograph of a three-story rowhouse in Philadelphia owned by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper during the last four decades of her life. The front façade is red brick. The first floor features a blue door (at the top of a short set of off-white stairs) and two double hung windows trimmed in white with blue shutters and blue window boxes. Two basement windows made of glass blocks can be see below the first-floor windows. The second and third floor each feature two double hung windows, again with white trim and blue shutters. Off-white lintels matching the front stairs are placed at the top of the door and basement windows and at the top and bottom of the other windows. A small cornice done in blue with yellowish accents tops the structure. This is an end unit and the photograph approaches the structure at an angle, so the end side wall of gray stone is also visible. Various utility wires interrupt the view of parts of the second and third floors. A historical marker—a sign on a tall pole—can be see to the viewer’s right, rising from the red brick sidewalk. The rowhouse immediately to the right is brown brick, separated visually from the Harper home by a white drainage pipe running from the roof to a black base in the sidewalk.
May 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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legacy1984.bsky.social
Thank you all for this forum on Frances Ellen Harper! We're so greateful!
Have a look at all those great contributions teased by Eagan Dean...
eagandean.bsky.social Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · May 13
Max Chapnick & I are proud of this forum commemorating the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's novel _Work_. Six innovative authors offer insights on C19 gender & labor in literature, very needed as we stand on the precipice of a new Gilded Age & a nadir of modern gender justice. Open Access! 🧵
legacy1984.bsky.social Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · May 13
Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!
May 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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My publisher - Feminist Press - had their 35k NEA grant terminated. This is the highest level of government censorship attacking marginalized voices and stories. Please support FP by donoting, buying their books from your local bookstore, or from their website #NEA #neagrants www.feministpress.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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New drop in the @legacy1984.bsky.social Frances Harper Special Issue: "We Need to Speak about Home: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Domestic Concerns" dx.doi.org/10.1353/leg....
May 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Tonight is the #MetGala, celebrating the upcoming opening of the new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which was inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion."
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Cover of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller. The title is in yellow at the top, with a curlicue to its left. The cover features detail from the painting "Yellow Book" by Iké Udé, with a light-skinned Black man in profile, sitting on chaise longue. He is wearing a dapper grey suit, gloves, and a floral boutonniere. The subtitle is written in white across his knees and the author's name is in yellow at the bottom of the cover.
May 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The first event for 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 will be a pre-release @haymarketbooks.org virtual event next Wednesday, 4/30 at 5pm ET featuring Garrett Felber in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
April 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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the crisis sure isn't wasting time (if you're excited about #3, you shouldn't be)
a list of top articles: 1) The pope is dead. Long live the papacy. 2) May Pope Francis rest in peace. And may peace return to mother church. 3) why we need a pope from africa
April 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I can hardly believe that I was just inducted into membership in the @amantiquarian.bsky.social. But I am excited to join the ranks of colleagues like @profgardner.bsky.social @drkmttr82.bsky.social @xineyaophd.bsky.social and @benbascom.bsky.social. And I’m so excited to see what the future holds!
April 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.
The cover of Eric Gardner’s Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction. On a blue background, the largest portion of the cover reproduces a C19 engraving of African American author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper found in William Still’s 1872 The Underground Rail Road. The portrait shows her head and upper body. She is wearing traveling clothes, and she is in three-quarters profile, facing to the left. Her hair is pulled back in her signature chignon, and she looks ahead with wisdom and determination. The engraving lines can be seen throughout the portrait, especially on her skin and her dress. A mostly-opaque yellow rectangle rests perhaps two-thirds of the way down the cover below Harper’s chin and neck. Here, inside a thin brown border, the words “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s” are offered in brown all caps, followed by the words “Civil War and Reconstruction” in smaller white all caps, followed by a partial centered line, followed by the author’s name in smaller brown all caps.
April 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting

@c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19

Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST

Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)
Dear Colleagues, Please see the following announcement for the next C19 Virtual Event, which will be held on Wednesday, 4/9 from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time. C19 Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Date: Wednesday, 4/9/25, 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time Hosted by Xine Yao (Associate Professor, University College London) and Spencer Tricker (Assistant Professor, Clark University). Featuring Julia H. Lee (Professor, UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Graduate Student, Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Professor, Maryland), and Caroline Yang (Associate Professor, UMass). Description: While the nineteenth century has long represented an important historical starting point for the study of Asian America, the field of Asian American studies largely remains focused on twentieth- and twenty-first century developments. In nineteenth-century American studies, analyses of the literature and experiences of people of Asian descent has similarly registered as a marginal concern, despite the fact that path-breaking works on these topics have productively complicated our understanding of the era’s racial politics and cultural production. Addressing these patterns of neglect, this C19 virtual panel seeks to reinforce scholarly networks first established at past C19 conference seminars and spotlight research, teaching, and community-building practices among scholars of Asian America in the long nineteenth century. It also provides a forum in which scholars can underscore–among other issues–the responsibilities of Asian American studies to reckon with longstanding histories of Asian settler colonialism, anti-blackness, and the complicated inter-imperial dynamics of our present moment, in which the abuses of both US and Chinese power loom large. While the panel will center Asian Americanist scholars at various career stages, it strives to be a welcoming space to colleagues across the spectrum of nineteenth-century studies who are interested in deepening their knowledge of Asian American studies and/or looking to diversify their teaching materials in this area. The panel, held on Zoom, will begin with questions for the panelists before opening up to Q&A with attendees. Zoom link: https://clarku.zoom.us/j/96534831636?pwd=csRnDIa2CePExBRMNrWNv86ERST1cw.1
March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies stereotypes & tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools. www.wired.com/story/openai... Even if users expressly try to avoid stereotypical outputs, they may not be able to do so.
OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases
WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.
www.wired.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM