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Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #Literacies, #EduSky, #AcademicSky, #BlackSky |she/her| Award-winning author (😆) | website: www.ReadingBlackFutures.com 💖💚
So, I was officially promoted (got the BoT letter and everything!!) and now I’m trying to figure out what comes next. I did a lot of writing and publishing pre-tenure. Because of that, I’ve got 3 books on the horizon, all probably out next year plus 3 articles accepted and likely out this year.
August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 287 (8/2/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely ...
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Wrote about stories for The Fulcrum this month My fav line: “The same logic that scrubs people of color from ancient epics is the logic that scrubs us from American history because in both cases, the sanitized version requires our absence.” thefulcrum.us/inclusion-di...
The Odyssey Isn’t Real, But American Diversity Is
After Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was released in theaters, Elon Musk declared he would use Grok to create a more “historically accurate” version of the ancient epic poem. The uproar over the film...
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My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
Just a reminder—don’t give this speech attention or ratings. Follow @atrupar.com to know what happened. Save yourself while he does the tireless work of documenting everything for us. Subscribe to his work!!
My latest in the Fulcrum, written after Vance’s terrible interview on The View. thefulcrum.us/inclusion-di...
The Feigned Confusion of JD Vance: Erasure by Design
"What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?" Whoopi Goldberg asked Vice President JD Vance last week, when he joined The View to discuss h...
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This is going to be a thing higher ed will have to grapple with in the coming years. Professors know a lot (usually in a very specific area). That’s valuable. But pontificating about your smartness for 3 hours ain’t gonna cut it anymore. Pedagogy will save us.
It’s Pride Eve, & I have an early present for ya. Books w/ queer protags by authors of color! #Pride Year of the Mer - LD Lewis - Ander & Santi Were Here - jonny garza villa - The Lovers, the Liars and Me - DeAndra Davis - The Dark We Know - Wen-Yi Lee - The Corruption of Hollis Brown - K. Ancrum
The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...
My article in defense of the teachers out here working everyday. I see you even if this administration (and other administrations, too, tbh) refuse to do so. thefulcrum.us/education/te...
Appreciated in Name, Dishonored in Practice: How the Department of Education is actively undermining our nation's teachers and championing charter schools.
Earlier this month, the United States celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week, the one week during the year when a Starbucks discount is supposed to stand in for respect. This week is often filled with c...
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I decided to get back on Threads after avoiding it for a while. We can connect here! www.threads.com/@sr.toliver?...
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328 Followers • 25 Threads • Asst. Prof. at UIUC who loves speculative fiction. Author and blerd writing about Black literacies and storytelling. Books coming 2027. See the latest conversations with.....
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Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.
So are they gonna rename it Project Freedom Go, then Project Freedom Max, then just Freedom, then back to Project Freedom, then—
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: "We may go back to Project Freedom, but it would be Project Freedom plus. Meaning Project Freedom plus other things."
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo agowho could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)
I am well aware that across multiple academic communities I have a reputation as someone who works really hard, perhaps bordering on workaholic. My suggestion to anybody entering academia (or already in): don't become a workaholic if you can help it. It's a job, a lovely job, but a job nonetheless
I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke
It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!
When the “Patriot Games” were announced, many ppl compared them to The Hunger Games. And they should have. The parallels were just too good. But I’ve been sitting with this idea of spectacle ever since Peele’s Nope. That’s what this op-ed is about. thefulcrum.us/media-techno...
The Capitol Is Counting on Us to Laugh
When the Trump administration announced the Patriot Games, many people laughed. Selecting two children per state for a nationally televised sports competition looked too much like Suzanne Collins’ Hun...
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Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too
Human Rights Campaign@hrc.org · 3mo agoAnne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛
This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.
Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · 3mo agoChicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌
My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
America is giving dying mall vibes
On the dangers of social and political nostalgia.
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Clarence Thomas is the singular greatest expression of whiteness this country has ever produced
@christiesmith.bsky.social · 3mo agoExcept for Thomas.
Thinking about the Supreme Court decision: When people say, x is a distraction, I like to tell people: actually none of it is. What we're witnessing is a wholesale totalitarian effort to reshape society in ways that benefit Trump, the oligarchy, and those who wish to espouse that.