J.T. Roane

@jtroane.bsky.social

Black studies scholar

Sabotage and the Black Girl Commons —My latest essay is live and open. There’s a small glitch with one misattributed citation, which I’ll get them to fix. Shout out to Sarah Haley, whose work is a primary inspiration. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sabotage and the Black Girl Commons - J.T. Roane, 2026

Racist regionalism and the disparagement of migrants compounded with gender and minor status related to age to articulate ‘negro girl’ as a category included pa...

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Express righteous anger with your students. They deserve to see us vulnerable, angry, and all the emotions. It opens space for them to also feel the same and from that potentially to move in passion, spontaneity, and collectivity.

This week at Berkeley African American studies for the June Jordan experience provided a necessary boost. I feel affirmed and also like i have so much more to do. I feel blessed.

The plan to invade Haiti with US led UN forces to “neutralize” 13,000 mostly young “gang members” or “insurgents” in April will be another disaster if we do not interrupt this. Meanwhile they hope to deport 400,000 people there also. #handsoffHaiti haitiantimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Diplomat lays out US plans for Haiti, says stability key to curbing collapse and migration

U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Henry Wooster tells Senate panel Haiti’s stability is vital to prevent collapse and migration.

haitiantimes.com

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

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The bloated orange’s racist video of the Obamas is fucked up. It is also a ruse and distraction as the fascists flail us all toward destruction with their klan domestic and foreign policy. Stay woke.

The Epstein files are drawing out how the global western elite made connections through trading children for sex. Off with their heads. All of them. If they were involved, if they knew and didn’t do anything, take them to the guillotine.

The coming hours and days in Minneapolis are crucial. ICE killed a man and is violently repressing protestors. We will begin to interrupt the fascists decisively in the coming days or we will wake up to full arsenal unchecked state backed autocratic capitalism.

The U.S. is in the open engaging in war on the planet. The fascists have concentration camps and a secret police force. They are beating their chests in bellicosity and belligerence on every front and supporting active genocides. They are doubling down on ecocide.