Dr. Korey Tillman | Ṣàngówálé
@k-till.bsky.social
Asst Prof. of Crim and African Studies @Northeastern. Abolitionist. Scholar of Policing, Antiblackness, & Empire. Yoruba. ΑΦΑ. #SocAF #BlackSky
I have a homie who is finishing up his dissertation in the UK and needs an outside reader. His work is on race, education, and embodiment. It's the embodiment piece--how youth carry their bodies, dress, talk, and resist--that he needs the support with. Any scholars come to mind?
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.
propublica.org
"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar
My article, "Stops: How Race, Space, and Policing Shapes Who is Human and Who is Not” is published! I theorize "stops" as moments when the category of human is contested and reified through racialized policing. Precursor to my "Punitive Inertia" article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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doi.org/10.1093/socp... - the article is open access now! I want to thank Eric Piza and Amy Lewontin for helping to make this happen!
Punitive Inertia: Anti-Blackness and the Policing of Motion
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Dr. Korey Tillman | Ṣàngówálé@k-till.bsky.social · last yr.The article is out now! doi.org/10.1093/socp.... As always, I am thankful to Olodumare, Ifa, Sango, the ancestors, and my participants and community. "I argue that Black bodies moving through an anti-Black modernity are always antagonistic entities where through 1/3
Policing shapes who is human and who is not. Check it out
College of Social Sciences and Humanities@nucssh.bsky.social · last yr.Criminology and criminal justice prof. @k-till.bsky.social researches “punitive inertia,” which describes the everyday occurrences of policing of black people’s bodies to maintain race boundaries, and their response when met with resistance. Read more at @nuglobalnews.bsky.social.
My work was featured in Northeastern Global New - "Policing is about more than law enforcement, researcher says, it’s about who gets to be human" news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/02/p... I'm thankful for the feature! @nusccj.bsky.social
Policing is about more than law enforcement, researcher says, it’s about who gets to be human
Northeastern’s Korey Tillman aims to redefine how people think about policing and its impact on Black motion.
news.northeastern.edu
The brilliant @ranitaray1.bsky.social has a new book out. Her first informed my own work so much, and I can’t wait to read this one! Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
This is beautiful!
Dr ADB@adbphd.bsky.social · last yr.They are still talking about you! Win jar- learned from integrative medical practitioner. Here’s a description: www.righttouchediting.com/2020/06/01/d... Happy to share nice techniques. It’s also useful when feeling a bit defeated about things as a way of reminding yourself of what you’ve done!
I just read a statement from a teaching observation of my class that made me get teary-eyed 🙏🏿
Thank you for the invite bro, it was an honor!!
Julien Grayer@wasabifunyuns.bsky.social · last yr.I just want to thank @k-till.bsky.social for being able to zoom into my Minorities in the CJ System class to talk about his article on coercive benevolence and carceral liberalism. I think students took away a lot!
Truly appreciating meeting & conversing w/ dope scholars this academic yr before sabbatical. Thank you again @k-till.bsky.social @dmmurphy.bsky.social for our convos, laughter, & pushing students @ Pitzer to think through complex matters & showcasing young scholars changing things in sociology.
@ranitaray1.bsky.social dropped some heat! Make sure you get your copy! The MacArthur genius, Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home called it "A beautiful and aching book...will change how you think about education." I'm excited to get my copy. It's going to the top of my list!
I had my students draw an abolitionist world on the board in Feb. One student added me into the world. Today, that same student added that drawing to the end of their final presentation. I'm weak! I love my students! Look at my profile pic and it will make sense lol
What's wild to me is that academia can still demand the pressures of tenure while folks are getting kidnapped and offered up on a platter by institutions of higher ed
what a time to be teaching Thomas Hobbes, am I right theorists?!
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
BREAKING: Momodou Taal, the Pro-Palestinian Activist Who Sued Trump, Voluntarily Leaves the Country
Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international P.h.D student, announced his decision to leave the United States following his weeks-long lawsuit against the federal government.
cornellsun.com
I had a great time delivering a talk for the Racial Justice Initative at Pitzer College. HUGE s/o and thank you to Dr. Alicia Bonaparte for the invite, coordination, and being a guiding light in academia. S/o to the soon-to-be Dr. Demetrius Murphy for pulling up. Amazing discussion! #SocAF
In academia, asking for someone's email after a talk feels like asking for an autograph lol