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My piece, “The Diagnostic State: Police Discretion and the Securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States” just dropped. This one started in graduate school so I’m happy it’s finally out in the world. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The diagnostic state: Police discretion and the securitization of HIV/AIDS in the United States - Pyar J Seth, 2026

How do law enforcement agencies shape public health responses during epidemics? While scholars have examined the role of established medical institutions such a...

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Thank you to @pyarseth.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my book at the Reilly Center @notredame.bsky.social ! Students & faculty had excellent Qs for me about art & plastic surgery; I had a blast visiting Hip Hop Public Health class; and I loved spending time at the Raclin Murphy Museum.

Been sitting on this one for a minute but I just had a piece on Zora Neale Hurston drop! Check it out! “A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation | Transforming Anthropology

Abstract Zora Neale Hurston looked for angularity in everyday life, where some cast her as nothing more than a liar. Despite the criticism, she continued on a path toward what she viewed as a reinvent...

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"Was George Floyd killed by a police officer?The official answer, according to a newly revealed set of federal government records, is no."

Beth Schwartzapfel@journo-beth.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"We identified 100s of people who died in custody but weren’t listed..entire states that failed to report almost any deaths..The overwhelming majority of the records did not meet the Justice Department’s own minimum standards for accuracy and completeness." www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...

Honored to be in the Hip Hop South special issue! Big love to my brotha Corey J. Miles for curating something so beautiful. This piece about grandma was probably the hardest thing I've written - very grateful Southern Cultures allowed me to share her light with y’all

"With great respect and meticulous research, [Dana] Williams reveals Morrison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." -- Martha Southgate www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.

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#booksky #writingcommunity

“The water in us has perfect memory,” wrote Alexis Pauline Gumbs in our Floods issue last summer. Water, she writes, is both an ancestor and a mirror. On floods, both literal and metaphorical, and what to learn from rising water.

Sea Grape Consciousness

The trees teach us to unlearn the fear of change

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Thank you for articulating this so well, Kelly Hayes and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social ! "_You struggle with the people who are there and who are willing to lock arms._ "

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

I talked with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about protest, why large “awareness-raising” events will not defeat Trump, and the kind of actions and formations we need in these times.

I absolutely agree. We need to question AI and its impact. But some of this “crisis of humanity” stuff is overblown. Students have always cheated. Cut and paste from Wikipedia. SparkNotes. Answers on the back of the calculator. Different forms but reflect a view many have always had of education

Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon. Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

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Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Medicine on a Larger Scale

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Anthros- do your future self a favor and put this book on your syllabus as soon as you can. Will fit with intro to cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, economic anthropology, ethnographic methods, care theory, kinship theory, & much more.

this week! if you're attending @appliedanthro.bsky.social's #SfAA2025 in portland, come check out my #SANA book panel on friday morning i'm thrilled to be joined by five brilliant colleagues and to learn how they read my work. hope to see you there! #SfAA #anthropology #appliedanthropology

Society for Applied Anthropology@appliedanthro.bsky.social · last yr.

The Society for the Anthropology of North America ( #SANA ) is one of our cosponsors this year for #SfAA2025. Check out these great sessions they have planned! For more Annual Meeting info, visit our website: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti... #SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology

Learn more about the artists we celebrated at the Baltimore Museum of Art for their works for Slavery in Motion with remains // an archive with a new in-depth interview on our Substack! lifexcode.substack.com/p/diving-dee...

"Thinking doesn't happen in isolation - it happens between people." See how HPRS builds community for doctoral scholars pursuing health equity: youtu.be/qLnbVwFl3FU Apps close for our FINAL cohort in just 5 days on March 11! Apply now: rwjf.org/cfp/hprs9 @rwjf.bsky.social @bsph-hpm.bsky.social

Community and Belonging at HPRS

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Postdoc Opportunity! The Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to be located in the Department of Africana Studies, beginning in August 2025. raceandresilience.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Initiative on Race and Resilience

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Never imagined I’d write a book but I’m thrilled to be working with @nyupress.bsky.social The Spectral Defect: Clinical Afterlives of State Violence coming to shelves near you!

I’m honored to be part of For the Wild’s Earthly Reads Series and podcast. You can listen this beautiful conversation about a blackness that precedes all, an earthliness that is divine through the lens of Audre Lorde & learn more about the upcoming live events here forthewild.world/listen/earth...

This was YEARS in the making but my first solo authored publication is out. I do more than rant on social media. I also study situational trust! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cooperating through distrust: seeking remedies to state and community violence

This article focuses on a crucial issue in Black politics: the spectrum of trust. Building on Monica Bell’s theory of situational trust, I explain how community members in three South Side Chicago ...

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Baltimore is so Black and queer and I am really obsessed with the beauty of it

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over your shoulder, you'll never write. ~ Nikki Giovanni ✨️✨️

Lawd my Ravens finna do it to me again 😪

With the end of the semester approaching, and the passing of Nikki Giovanni, my students and I crafted a poem to sum up our time together. And, well, I’ve been crying for the last hour 😂 Idk, I thought I’d share…. Rest easy. Thug life (iykyk)

you know those people that ones that make you feel at home in your own skin sometimes our heroes suck and sometimes they save lives Thank you. Rest. www.publicbooks.org/nikki-giovan...

Nikki Giovanni on Rest, Love, and Care

“There is nothing supreme about being white.”

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Full scholarships for Black UK-domiciled PhD students, for research in any field, at Univ of Glasgow. Deadline 31 Jan. Details at this link: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Dr Ruby (she/her)@paperwhispers.bsky.social · 2y ago

**Black UK PhD students** This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care. **Tell everyone**

seek out moments of stillness & silence to recharge

New piece of mine dropped in Qualitative Inquiry! “Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame.” Been experimenting with tone and prose a lot lately; hope some of it resonates. Check it out and lemme know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...