Jonathan W. Gray
@elmcitytree.blacksky.app
Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. 🇰🇳 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky
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I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky
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Personal account
Thank you so much for this article. It helps me understand this comic, which is about a middle class Black family in Queens that hires Luke to protect them from their neighbors.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thank you so much for this article. It helps me understand this comic, which is about a middle class Black family in Queens that hires Luke to protect them from their neighbors.
This is the tuition of Platner’s private boarding HS. He is a scion of wealth, like Eric and Don Jr.
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is the tuition of Platner’s private boarding HS. He is a scion of wealth, like Eric and Don Jr.
You mean the school that asks families to pay THIS in order to go there? But how could the family of a simple oysterman possibly afford that?
Unless…
Unless…
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You mean the school that asks families to pay THIS in order to go there? But how could the family of a simple oysterman possibly afford that?
Unless…
Unless…
Reagan's ruthless exploitation of that gasp--his ceaseless pushing of the lie of the welfare queen, and the media's instance on putting white feelings above object fact--led to the election of 1984. This map STILL makes old school Dems still wake up crying in the middle of the night.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reagan's ruthless exploitation of that gasp--his ceaseless pushing of the lie of the welfare queen, and the media's instance on putting white feelings above object fact--led to the election of 1984. This map STILL makes old school Dems still wake up crying in the middle of the night.
I mean, this exchange occurs 3/4th of the way through the interview. After several nonsensical interactions. My gawd.
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I mean, this exchange occurs 3/4th of the way through the interview. After several nonsensical interactions. My gawd.
Here’s an example. I was saying that I don’t understand how the same people who went to No Kings protest also went to Kamala book events to yell at her. This was his response:
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Here’s an example. I was saying that I don’t understand how the same people who went to No Kings protest also went to Kamala book events to yell at her. This was his response:
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
This framing sucks. But it reasserts the idea that only Republicans are real Americans
That the rest of us hate this seem immaterial
That the rest of us hate this seem immaterial
October 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This framing sucks. But it reasserts the idea that only Republicans are real Americans
That the rest of us hate this seem immaterial
That the rest of us hate this seem immaterial
Jinn Harbaugh on the sidelines
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Jinn Harbaugh on the sidelines
I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.
Here’s a literary palate cleanser: the first page of Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year. It’s a book about community & vulnerability & resilience. It’s the best thing I’ve read this year.
September 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Here’s a literary palate cleanser: the first page of Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year. It’s a book about community & vulnerability & resilience. It’s the best thing I’ve read this year.
Got my updated Covid shot today from the pharmacy down the street. They still have a newsstand by the door. This is the cover of the Post. Amazing.
September 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Got my updated Covid shot today from the pharmacy down the street. They still have a newsstand by the door. This is the cover of the Post. Amazing.
I’ll Take My Stand (1930), the Southern Agrarian manifesto was explicitly about defending the white South from any form of criticism. Contributors included Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren.
September 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’ll Take My Stand (1930), the Southern Agrarian manifesto was explicitly about defending the white South from any form of criticism. Contributors included Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren.
If you see this, reskeet with a vampire that is not Dracula.
(shoutout to @weredawgz.bsky.social for developing Brielle)
(shoutout to @weredawgz.bsky.social for developing Brielle)
September 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If you see this, reskeet with a vampire that is not Dracula.
(shoutout to @weredawgz.bsky.social for developing Brielle)
(shoutout to @weredawgz.bsky.social for developing Brielle)
I just received this out of pocket political text! I don’t know who this conspiratorial BS is meant to persuade but it won’t be me. Adams is a bribe taking 🤡 who should keep Mayor Dinkins name out of his mouth.
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I just received this out of pocket political text! I don’t know who this conspiratorial BS is meant to persuade but it won’t be me. Adams is a bribe taking 🤡 who should keep Mayor Dinkins name out of his mouth.
They treated ME like a human says the person who looks like this about Nazis who want free marketing from the NYT. I wonder if you & I showed up with questions how things would go.
August 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
They treated ME like a human says the person who looks like this about Nazis who want free marketing from the NYT. I wonder if you & I showed up with questions how things would go.
The architect @rudyfraser.com holding forth about the potential of #Blacksky at a @communia.bsky.social panel
You love to see it.
You love to see it.
August 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The architect @rudyfraser.com holding forth about the potential of #Blacksky at a @communia.bsky.social panel
You love to see it.
You love to see it.
The NYT sent their real estate reporter to interview these racists and write this story. I wonder why they chose her instead of an expert on right wing extremism? Although I suppose it is a story about property.
August 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The NYT sent their real estate reporter to interview these racists and write this story. I wonder why they chose her instead of an expert on right wing extremism? Although I suppose it is a story about property.
In an article about racists building a whites only community in Arkansas, how do you write this paragraph? What are you even doing?
August 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In an article about racists building a whites only community in Arkansas, how do you write this paragraph? What are you even doing?
Preparing for my graduate seminar focusing on Black revolutionary lives. Seems appropriate to be thinking with Davis & Fanon at this moment in time.
July 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Preparing for my graduate seminar focusing on Black revolutionary lives. Seems appropriate to be thinking with Davis & Fanon at this moment in time.