Crystal Fleming クリスタル
@alwaystheself.bsky.social
Wife. 🏳️🌈 Author. 📚 Tarot reader. 🔮 Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Once the white board is mounted on the wall…
And by “has been installed” I mean my wife and I carried it in, moved furniture and laid it down..
The rug has been installed! I REPEAT! The rug has been installed!!!!!!
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d agoThe little girl in me who dreamed, at 9 years old, of “becoming an author”, is GEEKING over a whole set of shelves dedicated to my own books along with other volumes in which I’m published 🥹🥹🥹
Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.
Everyone, I just met a young girl named Lilly. She was bored so I gave her paper and my pencil and in return she drew a portrait of me, which, I think we can all agree, is uncanny in its verisimilitude.
Martha Reeves gracefully explains the madness: “..without stage monitors I wasn’t able to hear myself as I normally would. While it wasn’t the performance I had hoped for, I’m grateful to have been there in support of these remarkable athletes and this groundbreaking league.” ew.com/martha-reeve...
Martha Reeves reacts after fans slam bizarre national anthem performance
Motown icon Martha Reeves responded to criticism over her bizarre national anthem performance at a Women’s Pro Baseball League match: ‘Wasn’t the performance I had hoped for.’
ew.com
Théo@tlpavlich.gay · 4d agoOkay I went back and recorded the WPBL anthem. I haven't seen a clip of it yet and....it needs to never be forgotten.
Right after I confirmed a new interview for my #BlackProvincetown project, I received an email, just now, from another key informant who ALSO agreed to be interviewed! Amaze amaze amaze!
The little girl in me who dreamed, at 9 years old, of “becoming an author”, is GEEKING over a whole set of shelves dedicated to my own books along with other volumes in which I’m published 🥹🥹🥹
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d agoUGH!! This reading nook is gonna be SO GOTDAMN DOPE with the rug installed and a nespresso / tea kettle situation bayBEE! ☕️ 🪴 📚 ✨
And the best part is that I am obligated to take zero meetings in there for a whole year and change! The office is just for meeeeeeeeeeeee!
UGH!! This reading nook is gonna be SO GOTDAMN DOPE with the rug installed and a nespresso / tea kettle situation bayBEE! ☕️ 🪴 📚 ✨
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d agoThese are images from my bulletin board, curated with objects and memories from places I've lived, played and worked, thank you cards and notes from friends, colleagues and students, ephemera from research sites and this archival newspaper from 1863 featuring the image of an enslaved Black woman..
Aesthetics are increasingly important to me and not just because I’m doing fieldwork in the oldest continuous arts colony in the United States. I find that I need beauty around me, beauty that reflects me and my tastes, suffusing spaces where I think, read and write, to feel focused and inspired..
Suffice it to say that my last campus office was.. not like this. Neither was the one before that, or before that. Even my offices at Harvard sucked. I've never had a work space with this much intentional aesthetic pleasure, so many love letters to Blackness and Black women in particular.
My wife has been the GOAT when it comes to just about everything including helping me finally get this not so new office together, endless packing and unpacking + crossing multiple state lines to return with me to my old job and retrieve my archive/research books (another story for another time)
The design reflects the fact that I want every single sight-line in the office to show me something beautiful, something Black, something colorful, inspiring, life-giving. Reminders of where I've been, who I come from, who I work for and serve, the people who love me and support me, near and far..
These are images from my bulletin board, curated with objects and memories from places I've lived, played and worked, thank you cards and notes from friends, colleagues and students, ephemera from research sites and this archival newspaper from 1863 featuring the image of an enslaved Black woman..
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d agoNext up: laying down a carpet for the reading nook, hanging wall art and white board installation!
My sabbatical tagline is "If you see me on campus, no you didn't!"
Next up: laying down a carpet for the reading nook, hanging wall art and white board installation!
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2d agoI *love* how my curated campus office redesign is shaping up.. especially hype about the shelves honoring Black art, Black girlhood and Black/Africana feminist texts! ❤️✨
I *love* how my curated campus office redesign is shaping up.. especially hype about the shelves honoring Black art, Black girlhood and Black/Africana feminist texts! ❤️✨
So I’m choosing to reframe that anthem as a very, VERY effective form of political protest.. #wpbl
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
Hours later and I’m STILL trying to understand why there were three different people singing the national anthem and not one of them sounded right on their own much less together. Make it make sense! #wpbl
Is there a GoFundMe for the #wpbl? How can we help..
I think it’s strange there weren’t more celebrities and stars from other women’s sports at this game. Abby Wambach? Billie Jean King? Literally anybody? #wpbl
Well this is fun, inspiring, exciting! #wpbl