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Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.
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The downstream effect of all the GLP-1 hysteria is that I now know what a compounding pharmacy is and my vet didn’t have to explain that to me when discussing a new med for my dog.
Dog tax: Photo of Mia, small brown dog with grey and black muzzle, curled up and sleeping in my bed.
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Explaining that this person is willfully misusing “blockbusting” is going about as well as you would expect. Charming.
Comment in reply to me: “SaraEllen Strongman I am not misusing "block busting." That term became idiomatic long ago. As "get off your high horse" is an idiom for "stop acting superior, arrogant, or self-righteous." I'm "ignorant" because you've failed to intimidate me? Lady, this isn't your classroom.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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“The Problem We All Live With” (1964)
The problem we all live with by normal Rockwell. Painting depicts suited US Marshalls escorting a young black girl wearing a white dress and holding a book and a ruler. The background is a wall splattered with tomatoes and racist graffiti.
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This is the extent of my decorating this year. I still want trick or treaters.
Photograph of a piece of orange paper tapped against a blue front door. On the orange paper is a drawing of a Jack o lantern.
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The corrupting food in question.
Photo of a table with a checked red table cloth (vinyl) with dominoes pizzas, a liter each of coke and sprite, and some home baked cookies. Also a handwritten signs that says “Cookies!!! For everyone!”
October 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Very cool to see the Essential Poems on display at the event today at @bgsqd.bsky.social. Incredible way to end the Lesbian Lives conference weekend!
Photograph of the Essential Poems by Pat Parker on a table display with Archive of Style by Cheryl Clarke and Hothead Paisan by Diane diMassa
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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White guy who thinks it’s OK to use slurs thinks building duplexes is “land rape.” News at 11.
“See this for what it is, a massive land rape by disgusting politicians…” (You truly do not need to subject yourself to the rest of his diatribe)
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Screenshot from Livingston county post’s website: “I have covered the news in Livingston County for over three decades, and I’ve never seen anything quite like today’s No Kings rally in downtown Howell, part of the nationwide day of protest of President Donald Trump and his policies.”
October 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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TODAY is the official publication day of “Essential Poems” by Pat Parker, a new pocket volume of Parker’s most beloved work. Join us tonight for an incredible event! “Essential Poems” is available anywhere books are sold!
Photograph of several copies of the book. The cover features a black and white photograph of Pat Parker, sitting on a table looking fly, against a purple background. Text: Essential Poems by Pat Parker, edited by SaraEllen Strongman.
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Tomorrow is the official publication date for “Essential Poems” by Pat Parker! I feel incredibly lucky to be celebrating the release in an event hosted by Sinister Wisdom featuring Cheryl Clarke, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Alexis Bard Johnson. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Flyer for “Celebrating Essential Poems by Pat Parker.” The flyer has a purple background and features a photograph of Parker, the cover of the volume, and a photo of SaraEllen Strongman. The event will be Tuesday, October 14 at 8pm. Flyer text: “Edited by SaraEllen Strongman, Essential poems by Pat Parker gathers over thirty five poems by Parker and her iconic essay ‘Revolution: It’s not neat, pretty or quick.’ It is the perfect pocket edition for an introduction to Parker’s work. Join Sinister Wisdom to celebrate a new collection of Parker’s most beloved poems with readings of Parker’s poems by SaraEllen Strongman, Cheryl Clarke, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and a special presentation by Alexis Bard Johnson about Black lesbian archives at the One Archive. Moderated by Sinister Wisdom’s editor and publisher Julie Enszer.”
October 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I don’t have close ups of yesterdays batches. They didn’t get displayed outside of their containers bc we were short on space.
Photograph of a good set up. A table covered in a red checked tabled cloth with pizza, soda, brownies, donuts, cookies, plates, and napkins
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Tragically, an MLive article failed to feature my entire sign set up. (Or pictures of the cookies!) #a2council
Signs. One with a green back ground reads: “COOKIES!!! For everyone* (Because I enjoy baking)” One below with an legate background reads: “*Unless you don’t see the irony of describing feeding people as ‘a circus’ when you once tore a stuffed pig limb from limb during a public comment.” #a2council
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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She was looking especially forlorn so hopefully they took pity on her. Example:
Mia, small brown dog with big sad eyes making her “puppy dog” eyes at the camera
October 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This was, of course, ironically a campaign called Save Our Libraries.
Photo of a “save our library, vote no” mailer from 2012
September 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!
Photograph of copies of Essential Poems by Pat Parker on a box. The cover is purple with a photograph of Pat Parker, wearing a deep v neck shirt, glasses, and rocking a small fro.
September 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Long Tuesday but I’m ending the day with a s’mores cookie.
Photograph of my smores cookie (dark chocolate cookie with a melted marshmallow in the middle and chunks of graham cracker) with a bite taken out. My dog looks on mournfully in the background. Better picture of smores cookies in a Tupperware
September 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I had not appreciated how small a small coffee was.
Incredibly small iced coffee. Like the stress is 3x as long as the cup is tall
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Glad to see such a high level of discourse about local politics. #a2council
Screenshot from Facebook of a conversation about Ann Arbor’s comprehensive land use plan. I wrote, “I found the plans’ transportation section particularly attentive to regional issues.” Another user replied, “Whatever.”
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Another batch of brown butter rye chocolate chip loading…
Photo of dough balls with chocolate chunks on a parchment lined tray
September 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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For those who missed it, there were s’mores cookies at tonight’s Neighborhood Week events.
Smores cookies: chocolate cookies with marshmallows, graham cracker chunks, and chocolate chips.
September 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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MORE exciting events tonight for Neighborhood Week! And there might even be more cookies 👀 #a2council
Image advertising “dream big: shaping your community org vision into reality” tonight at 7pm in the Rackham amphitheater. The flyer features headshots of the four speakers and their topics. Lihn Song, “Building a Movement for change”; Donnell Wyche, “Imagining Ann Arbor’s Future”; Gaurav Kulkarni, “Why this work matters”; and Adam Goodman, “Reassessing vision zero”
September 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Neighborhood Week doesn’t just have educational opportunities and cool neighbors, it also has cookies! #a2council
Rye brown butter chocolate chip cookies Brown butter ginger molasses cookies Sesame and caramelized white chocolate cookies
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Everything is still bad BUT they reopened the Western sidewalk on State St!
Photograph of the western side of state st by campus. The sidewalk is now open where it had previously been blocked by fences.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Canvassers for the creepy citizen voting measure are on campus today. Make sure you read the petitions you’re signing!
Flyer with “quick facts on the petition”: These efforts are led by Lansing politicians and national special interest groups;!These petitions photo crest new problems and more red tape by making it harder for eligible citizens to vote in MI elections ; politics and a tip al special interest groups are trying to rewrite parts of the MI constitution that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2017 and 2022
September 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM