Vanessa Agard-Jones

...one can imagine safety without walls, can iterate difference that is prized but unprivileged, and can conceive of a third, if you will pardon the expression, world "already made for me, both snug and wide open, with a doorway never needing to be closed." Home. -Toni Morrison

The first event on 10/20 at 12pm, "Soil, Land, Fill," will feature @agardjones (@Columbia), @sethdenizen (@Princeton), and Linda F. Chavez Baca (@JGMA_architects), with Catherine Fennell (@Columbia): buellcenter.columbia.edu/conferences/so…

Starts this afternoon: @HazelCarby on Art and Political Ecology @ColumbiaMaison . Three days of brilliance ahead!

@vqueeram @MaxLiboiron Oh, thank you! Just sent.

@agardjones @MaxLiboiron Ohmygod! Can’t believe YOU offered! I love the essay on when the sands remember! Your scholarship is so moving and emotive. Thank you so much for your work and this generosity. [vikramadityasahai@yahoo.co.in]

#Collabrary 56: "Bodies in the System" (2013) by Vanessa Agard-Jones @agardjones, an essay about bodies & multi-scalar systems, power & agency, grieving & living. I am loving returning to pieces I read as a graduate student. They are never the same. read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/arti…

@vqueeram @MaxLiboiron Of course! Send me your email.

@MaxLiboiron @agardjones Can you send me the essay? I don’t have access.

Thanks, @MaxLiboiron (seriously)

@MaxLiboiron (now on to conclusively pulling up that treehouse ladder behind you— fabulous!)

Life achievement unlocked.

@crystalrhudson Oh, Crystal. I’m sending you so much ❤️. As is my mom, who shared how much she loved knowing yours.

My mother transitioned last night. She passed one wk & two days before her birthday, so I’m sharing this video of us dancing to one of our favorite songs—Native New Yorker—on her birthday last year. 🖤 I’ll be taking some time to bask in her glory and spend time with loved ones.

@rebecca_altman @MaxLiboiron (so grateful for this, too.)

@MaxLiboiron Thanks so, very much!

@agardjones Likewise! I am grateful to be in your orbit, even if it's a pretty wide path out these days. I am sooooo looking forward to your new book. If you need a blurber, call me.

@rebecca_altman @MaxLiboiron getting closer, y’all— pandemic derailment, but back in the making.

@MaxLiboiron @MaxLiboiron late to the conversation (as ever), but so grateful for the engagement + citation! Have learned so much from you in return, ever since we crossed paths at NYU many moons ago.

This piece has one of my favourite definitions of bodies, which not coincidently parallels a description of Indigenous Land: "a melding together of blood, bones, flesh, chemicals, chromosomes, cells, and spirit" (187).

@hiokinai @DeondreSmiles (thanks for the shout, @hiokinai-- miss having your light on this side !)

@DeondreSmiles I would also take a look at the brilliant work of Vanessa Agard-Jones on porosity! @agardjones

@ZoeSTodd @KimTallBear @LethaboKing @DarrylLeroux @lrieppel honored, @ZoeSTodd ! + can't wait to read! x

@smallerlarge I am so thrilled to hear it, @smallerlarge ! Stay tuned: been percolating a follow up!

@MythriJega @_neelofer (honored + thank you + so many congratulations, @MythriJega !)

@_neelofer I love @agardjones “What the Sands Remember” (2012) in GLQ.

@anjulifatima @Columbia_SPS @edyong209 @priscillawald @ByDavidFrance @RebeccaSkloot @alondra @KeeangaYamahtta @zoeschlanger honored, @anjulifatima !

@hystericalblkns A faculty meeting.

@LethaboKing @kenyonfarrow I wish I did!

@kenyonfarrow @agardjones y'all know?

Watching Adelaide Norris (Jean Satterfield) decide to engage in armed struggle in the movie Born in Flames hits so different this fall. Black lesbian and queer NY, where are the actors Jean and Honey in 2020? (so foine...) Feminist Theories #CommunistManifesto #BornInFlames

@LethaboKing @iamswimsoul alleluia @LethaboKing readlovemake!

@iamswimsoul Hmmmm @agardjones when we could also just read, be inspired and then create something dope

@1gillianfrank1 @GretaLaFleur @Anastasia_C_Day @nelangst @ProfessorCrunk Any and all things by Michelle Murphy would be just right...