Tavia Nyong’o

Here’s an idea: NAACP and HRC join forces to sponsor a Freedom Summer 2023 in Florida to fight the DeSantis agenda: register voters, defend trans and queer youth, fight the right wing takeover of higher Ed.

I unlocked $20 Rush tickets for Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?! on @TodayTix! todaytix.com/nyc/shows/2775…

I call upon leaders in higher education to publicly defend scholarship in black queer studies, intersectionality, and critical race theory from censorship and politically-motivated attack. Academic freedom is at stake.

We are back in the trenches of another culture war, and as someone who reviewed the AP AAS curriculum (it was/is fantastic) and had high hopes for its roll out, I’m deeply disappointed by the College Board folding to pressure.

Back on this platform against my better judgement to share my outrage that colleagues like E Patrick Johnson, Cathy Cohen, and Rod Ferguson, and now the great poet Amiri Baraka, are being removed from the AP African American Studies syllabus in response to right wing backlash.

Mutuals who are moving to mastodon please DM me your handle over there in Jurassic park please.

Okay, I think that’s all for now folks. Don’t want to collaborate with evil more than I have to. I’m off to join the Clan of the Cavebear. You can find me at samo@mastodon.lol

I suppose this is also therapy for my foreboding sense that the US might presently be coming apart at the seams. “Origins of the present crisis.” Kind of thing.

My mother recalls grandpa holding up the newspaper headline “VJ Day” (her initials), and joking it was about her.

It feels weird to write lectures on the twentieth century, having started out as a nineteenth century specialist, and then writing about contemporary art for a few decades.

Not sure why I avoided “The American Century” previously. But sifting through it now and sorting it into 13 weeks is an almost psychedelic experience.

Woke up in Nairobi and started writing my Spring lectures: The Formation of Modern American Culture: 1945—2001. I feel like a proper emigré intellectual.

The algorithm is trolling me hard today.

Today is the anniversary of the United Fruit Company massacre against striking workers on the Colombian Caribbean coast in 1928. Between 1000 and 2000 banana pickers were killed in a bloodbath. The company responsible is known today as 'Chiquita.'

I unlocked $35 Rush tickets for KPOP on @TodayTix todaytix.com/nyc/shows/2423…

Mid-tempo miércoles

Which one actually works?

The first and last “frequently used emoji” on your phone sums up your 2022. Mine: 2022 in like 🥟 And out like 🧟‍♀️