Venus Evans-Winters, Ph.D.
@drvenus.bsky.social
❤️ Professor Insider-Outsider 🖤 Writer 💚Dis/Embodied Ethnographer 🪷 Complex Trauma Clinical Therapist 🧘🏽♀️ Founder: www.venusevanswinters.com
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I’ve authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than 10 books & dozens of journal articles & book chapters over the course of my career. Research/writing are not about individual success or personal achievement. Thinking & theorizing are about collective agency and liberatory knowledge.
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@drvenus.bsky.social and I started a new podcast series: Beyond the Soundbite: Black Feminist Research & Wellness. Check out the first episode www.youtube.com/live/LtSYQcZ...
Health & Wellness in the Academy: Daughtering as a Community of Care
YouTube video by Dr. Venus Evans-Winters
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May 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
@drvenus.bsky.social and I started a new podcast series: Beyond the Soundbite: Black Feminist Research & Wellness. Check out the first episode www.youtube.com/live/LtSYQcZ...
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Parents worried about their kids’ social media use are nostalgic for a version of their own childhood. They’d be better served cultivating digital literacy skills.
Social Media Bans for Children Ignore the Reality of Digital Life
Parents are better served developing digital literacy skills than trying to recreate their own childhoods.
www.bloomberg.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Parents worried about their kids’ social media use are nostalgic for a version of their own childhood. They’d be better served cultivating digital literacy skills.
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My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
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NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
March 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.
Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!
What a great loss to the intellectual community. Condolences.
I was deeply saddened to hear of Sandra Harding's passing. It was an honor to work with her and I have warm memories of talking with her at UCLA. The Press has posted a commemoration. Farewell to Sandra Harding dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/f...
Farewell to Sandra Harding
We were sorry to learn of the death of philosopher Sandra Harding on March 6, 2025 at the age of 89. She was Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles. H…
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
What a great loss to the intellectual community. Condolences.
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Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
Call Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVP
A permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...
I’ve authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than 10 books & dozens of journal articles & book chapters over the course of my career. Research/writing are not about individual success or personal achievement. Thinking & theorizing are about collective agency and liberatory knowledge.
March 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I’ve authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than 10 books & dozens of journal articles & book chapters over the course of my career. Research/writing are not about individual success or personal achievement. Thinking & theorizing are about collective agency and liberatory knowledge.
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‘Internment’ tells the dystopian story of a Muslim American teen fighting for justice. Author @samiraahmed.bsky.social calls banning stories like hers “identity erasure” & dissuades young activists who can drive real change. She joins me at 11a ET for the latest #Velshi="/hashtag/VelshiBannedBookClub" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#VelshiBannedBookClub. #Velshi
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
‘Internment’ tells the dystopian story of a Muslim American teen fighting for justice. Author @samiraahmed.bsky.social calls banning stories like hers “identity erasure” & dissuades young activists who can drive real change. She joins me at 11a ET for the latest #Velshi="/hashtag/VelshiBannedBookClub" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#VelshiBannedBookClub. #Velshi
Go read and write what you like! ✍🏽📚
As a Professor with 20 years in the game, I know for sure that reading, writing, and creating art that “you like” and need is a practice of freedom. 🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
As a Professor with 20 years in the game, I know for sure that reading, writing, and creating art that “you like” and need is a practice of freedom. 🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
March 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Go read and write what you like! ✍🏽📚
As a Professor with 20 years in the game, I know for sure that reading, writing, and creating art that “you like” and need is a practice of freedom. 🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
As a Professor with 20 years in the game, I know for sure that reading, writing, and creating art that “you like” and need is a practice of freedom. 🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
Go read and write what you like! ✍🏽📑📚
🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
Join the FREE 30x30x30 March mindfulness writing challenge! If this sounds like something you need, sign up: shorturl.at/OxHtk
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
Join the FREE 30x30x30 March mindfulness writing challenge! If this sounds like something you need, sign up: shorturl.at/OxHtk
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
30 x 30 x 30 Mindfulness Writing Challenge
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March 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Go read and write what you like! ✍🏽📑📚
🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
Join the FREE 30x30x30 March mindfulness writing challenge! If this sounds like something you need, sign up: shorturl.at/OxHtk
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
🧘🏽♀️🪷💜
Join the FREE 30x30x30 March mindfulness writing challenge! If this sounds like something you need, sign up: shorturl.at/OxHtk
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism
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WATCH: When Angela Sequera learned that her son had been transferred from an El Paso immigration facility to Guantanamo, she panicked. Her son wasn’t a terrorist.
“It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
“It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
Mother Speaks Out Against Trump’s Detention of Her Son at Guantanamo
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
WATCH: When Angela Sequera learned that her son had been transferred from an El Paso immigration facility to Guantanamo, she panicked. Her son wasn’t a terrorist.
“It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
“It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”
Reposted by Venus Evans-Winters, Ph.D.
Reposted by Venus Evans-Winters, Ph.D.
Wary Colleges Scramble to Meet #DEI Deadline
The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration will go to enforce it. #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/3F0SuSQ
The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration will go to enforce it. #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/3F0SuSQ
Colleges scramble to meet federal anti-DEI deadline
The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration wil...
bit.ly
February 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Wary Colleges Scramble to Meet #DEI Deadline
The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration will go to enforce it. #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/3F0SuSQ
The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration will go to enforce it. #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/3F0SuSQ
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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.
February 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.
I think this time the good old boys club screwed over the wrong wh*te boys.
February 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think this time the good old boys club screwed over the wrong wh*te boys.
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🎥📺🚨Premiering Feb 25: #ForgottenHeroPBS: Walter White and the NAACP, which traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and his anti-lynching work and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.
www.pbs.org/video/chapte... #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#tellemwhatwedid
www.pbs.org/video/chapte... #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#tellemwhatwedid
American Experience | Chapter 1 | Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP | Season 37 | Episode 1
Watch a preview of Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP.
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February 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🎥📺🚨Premiering Feb 25: #ForgottenHeroPBS: Walter White and the NAACP, which traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and his anti-lynching work and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.
www.pbs.org/video/chapte... #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#tellemwhatwedid
www.pbs.org/video/chapte... #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#tellemwhatwedid
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Civil rights law, affirmative action, diversity and equity programs, were designed to eliminate the obstacles faced by people whose ancestors were enslaved, they were created to address a *condition,*not as a “racial preference. Addressing a condition is not racial discrimination
February 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Civil rights law, affirmative action, diversity and equity programs, were designed to eliminate the obstacles faced by people whose ancestors were enslaved, they were created to address a *condition,*not as a “racial preference. Addressing a condition is not racial discrimination
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Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…
propub.li
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination
Reposted by Venus Evans-Winters, Ph.D.
📣The AERA 2025 Division K Pre-Conference Seminars application deadline has been extended to Feb 21! Please click the link to consider this FREE opportunity tinyurl.com/DivKPreSem
February 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📣The AERA 2025 Division K Pre-Conference Seminars application deadline has been extended to Feb 21! Please click the link to consider this FREE opportunity tinyurl.com/DivKPreSem
It’s strange watching critics of this administration turn to the judicial system.
Is anyone familiar with the tenets of Critical Race Theory?
Is anyone familiar with the tenets of Critical Race Theory?
February 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It’s strange watching critics of this administration turn to the judicial system.
Is anyone familiar with the tenets of Critical Race Theory?
Is anyone familiar with the tenets of Critical Race Theory?
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Calling all Pre-K — higher ed educators! Share your thoughts on PBS @NewsHour Classroom's Educator Voice blog.
Subject: Potential dismantling or transformation of the Dept. of Education ✍️ and how it affects you/your students. Share by Thurs., 2/13 here: bit.ly/40Q0vRw | #EduSky #sschat #DOE #edchat
Subject: Potential dismantling or transformation of the Dept. of Education ✍️ and how it affects you/your students. Share by Thurs., 2/13 here: bit.ly/40Q0vRw | #EduSky #sschat #DOE #edchat
February 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Calling all Pre-K — higher ed educators! Share your thoughts on PBS @NewsHour Classroom's Educator Voice blog.
Subject: Potential dismantling or transformation of the Dept. of Education ✍️ and how it affects you/your students. Share by Thurs., 2/13 here: bit.ly/40Q0vRw | #EduSky #sschat #DOE #edchat
Subject: Potential dismantling or transformation of the Dept. of Education ✍️ and how it affects you/your students. Share by Thurs., 2/13 here: bit.ly/40Q0vRw | #EduSky #sschat #DOE #edchat
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“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”
February 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”
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Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.
January 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.