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what does ‘’blx ’’ feminist even mean? | idealist with some pessimist sauce | writing like I’m running out of time | PhD student learning how to diagnose books 📚👀
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Ok let’s get it.

Choose albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#musicsky
#musicchallenge
#20albums20days
Image of Solange Knowles from the chest-up. Cover to her album “When I Get Home”. Blank background with Solange in the foreground.
April 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I made a purchase today #Blackademics #Blerdsky #Academicsky #PhDsky
A Hello Kitty-themed Monopoly board game.
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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post a picture of you that's not actually a picture of you

#Blackademics #Academicchatter #PhDChat
Imagine of an elderly woman climbing a gate
March 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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So I’m back in the Norton reading Crevecouer’s “Letters of an American Farmer” and, well…what a time to read some speculative letters from the 1700s *big big sigh* #Academicchatter #Academicsky #Booksky
Image is of a book page with pen marks on it. The underlined sentence on the page, which the skeet is referring to reads: “It is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess everything, and of a heard of people who have nothing.”
February 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Back to my re-read of Hopkin’s “Of One Blood” (these last couple of weeks have been iuuuuhhgshsh but anyway) finally and read a line that just made my chest expand (underlined) #Blackademics #Academicchatter #booksky
Image of a page from the novel Of One Blood or the Hidden Self by Pauline Hopkins. Toward the bottom of the page is an underlined section of text that reads : “There is only too much truth in science of mesmeric phenomena. The world is a wonderful place.”
February 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I also made garlic buffalo chicken sandwiches two nights ago, with my own fries. I fry food traditional #discover #morningsky
Image is of two chicken sandwiches covered in red buffalo sauce Image is of a basket of French fries
February 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I made bacon egg and cheese (the r bread is in fact toasted) #morningsky #discover
Image is of a sandwich with bacon and scrambled eggs with cheese
February 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy #discover
Image of cartoon with a white man leaning over a service desk with male employee in the other side. Text reads: I do not want to save to onedrive. I want to save to the documents folder... On my computer... That I own... In my house.
February 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Why do I feel like this question is anti-Black? #Blacksky
[alt text] “do you have a good attitude?”
January 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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My besties Madissen and Amaya (they’re not on here) 🥰 #Blacksky #Academicchatter
January 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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There are a few people in my field that I think are cute and it stops there (and no no names) #Blacksky #Academicchatter
January 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Alrighty let me go through these real quick. No, and it better never happen. #Blacksky #Academicchatter
January 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Books I’m re/reading rn:

Pauline Hopkins, “Of One Blood or the Hidden Self”
Patricia Hill Collins, “Black Feminist Thought”
Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers Gardens”
Nolen Gertz, “Nihilism”
“The Norton Anthology of American Lit, Beginnings to 1865, shorter 10th edition” (love the cover!)
Painted book cover of a black man with grey hair and a grey beard reading a stack of papers.
January 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Monday is MLK Jr. Day, like usual. #Blackademics #Academicchatter #AcademicSky
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January 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Right ahead of you! #Blackademics #Academicchatter #PhDSky
Image of an Apple laptop resting in my lap (taker of the photo) with a cup of coffee next to me.
January 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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What are we talking about this morning? #Blacksky
A Black man looking at his smartphone in confusion
January 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Yeah yeah I know #Blacksky #Blackademics #Academicchatter
Image of blue, cartoon squid tentacles holding a piece of paper that reads: “Stop overthinking you mf”
January 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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If you know me/my face then it should help, but curious of the folks who don’t have a frame of reference other than my skeets
#Blackademics #AcademicSky #Academicchatter #HigherEd
January 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Honestly I’m in good hands believe it or not lol #Blackademics #Blerdsky #PhDChat
Image of the cartoon “Regular Show” characters, consisting of a white gorilla lifting weights, a green man waving his shirt over his head, a ghosts with one hand, an anthropomorphic brown raccoon and blue jay bird, a sentient gumball machine and a white man being carried away by a bunch of balloons, all against a purple and black background.
January 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Received this comment on a post the other day. *Big sigh* The username doesn’t make things any better😔 #Blacksky
Text comment on BlueSky from comfyspy.bsky.social: Very worrying. Life imitates art. I need to rewatch and replay Fallout for some tips on the future to come. The future looks bright. Blindingly bright. And right after, burning and chaos.
January 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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No notes. #Academicsky #Academicchatter
White background with the word ‘spaghetti’ in black text. ‘Merriam-Webster’ logo is placed at the bottom-right corner in blue lettering, surrounded by a red circle.
January 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I teach on books, learn how to diagnose books and prescribe alliteration, and also answer emails, which are rarely about books #AcademicSky #Academichatter #PhDLife
White letters in a black background that say “poorly explain what you do for a job”
December 31, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Image of a Black man in a blue baseball cap, black shades and a black hoodie scratching the back of his forehead with his forefinger.
December 31, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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December 28, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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I don’t know what else to say today and I feel like talking about random stuff so… I promise I’m interesting. #Blacksky #AcademicSky #Academicchatter
Image is a white background with black texts that reads: 1 like equals 1 fact about me
December 22, 2024 at 10:02 PM