i like long abstracts and i cannot lie... you other scholars do too and you can't deny when a paper drops with an itty bitty font, and a massive reference list, you get cited yeah, it's bed time. i need sleep.
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asst prof. writing & thinking Black Studies north of the 49th. currently writing: Black Grammars: On Difference and Belonging. something worthwhile happens here
it's always who gives a shit about titles really, but i've always liked "Convenor" of xyz institute rather than industry standard "Director"
Monica Miller and Jonathan Michael Square in Conversation Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Marvin Gelber Print & Drawing Study Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario ago.ca/events/monic...
Monica Miller and Jonathan Michael Square in Conversation - Wednesday, October 21, 2026 | Art Gallery of Ontario
With a collection of more than 90,000 works of art, the Art Gallery of Ontario is among the most distinguished art museums in North America.
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem: Advanced Screening! Sun, Oct 4 x 6:30 pm paradiseonbloor.com/film-series/...
Once Upon a Time in Harlem: Advanced Screening!
A film over 50 years in the making.
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Teach wearing a mask. Offer masks to the class. There's bad stuff going around. With real consequences.
on the one hand, and on the other hand, and on the other hand... when writing, remember: there are only two hands
anyone else remember growing up in toronto, trying to get Quiet Storm on 93.7WBLK on the radio at night...
On Canadian multiculturalism: Black Canada exists under a regime that "affirms culture while it denies race and that fêtes diversity while it despises Blackness" (p. 3) -Kamugisha and Hudson (2014)
my internet acting up on all my devices. even though i know it's a network problem, everytime this happens i still find my dumb ass closing two or three of my hundred tabs like it's gonna help lol...y'all laughing but i know it aint just me
“But of course, no idea is perfect and forever valid. Always to be living and apposite and timely, it must be modified and adapted to changing facts.” —W.E.B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn (1940/2017)
FIFA is THE most corrupt org in the world. Usually they're the ones bribed; this is how they bribes folks: For a year FIFA has leased an office in Trump Tower NYC that has sat empty. The rent goes to Trump’s family business, but the space sits largely idle. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
A Yearslong Effort to Woo Trump Culminates With the World Cup
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is it really a Black show when they wear shoes in the house? i be questioning all the time
i am from a small country called Eritrea, and independence was made to be a big celebrated thing, the idea of the return home. but after some time in North America, the dream of returning home was replaced with the dream of owning a home, white picket fence... paraphrase, not a direct quote
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some days it just hits. today is one of those some days. missing my people that aren't here anymore. miss kicking it w/ them about nothing at all, the not so memorable days of just spending time doing absolutely nothing. that's the only freedom we knew, in company of those that reciprocate care
Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean is curated by Michelle Jacques, Head of Exhibitions & Collections/Chief Curator, and Sally Frater, Senior Curator/Curatorial Manager of Remai Modern. artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/l...
Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean – Art Museum at the University of Toronto
While we speak of “the Caribbean” as a single region, it is, in fact, a complex and varied place defined by intricate intersections of histories and cultures that exist across an intricately delineate...
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LOL @ every org putting their Black History Month event on the last day of February. Sat gonna be a busy one!
get to teach rinaldo walcott's "Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada; Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation" and mark campbell's "Other/ed Kinds of Blackness: An Afrodiasporic Versioning of Black Canada." today is going to be a good day💙🖤 that means playing deborah cox, k'naan and shad...🎵🎵
Response to “Ante-Anti-Blackness” "This struggle feels old but also strangely new and possibly generative in the kinds of questions it poses, the kinds of questions that might be asked, and the kinds of answers that might be given at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century."
there is a way to do nostalgia critically and generatively, and then there is what we have now, a way to do nostalgia in crass, base capitalistic ways....
The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3 blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2...
Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale
Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...
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need help w/ reccos, any spas in toronto or the GTA that specializes on working on Black people and their specific skin considerations? want to gift a spa + care package (facial, massage eveything) for a dear friend, but don't want to send them anywhere. anyone had good experiences somewhere?