Just a reminder: "racial realist" is what David Duke called himself when he went from being the Imperial Wizard of the Klan to a prominent candidate in the Louisiana governor race.
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD
@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social
Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/ www.taoleighgoffe.com
Today, we remember an important turning point in history: the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 2d agoBreaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.
A few that no one has gotten to: Who Killed Piet Bardol?, The Old Drift, The Tusk that Did the Damage (tho Loot might be the obvious Tania James), Dead Astronauts, Ngugi's Devil on the Cross, A Small Place, Poetry: What Work Is, Solie's Wellwater. @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social's Dark Laboratory.
Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.
What books are on our editors’ nightstands this month? For @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social, co-editor of our Global Black History section, it’s Marie Mitchell’s “Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen,” out now from @wwnorton.com.
On Our Nightstands: July 2026 - Public Books
At “Public Books,” our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we…
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With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447
For the latest On Our Nightstands, our editors @njdames.bsky.social, Benjamin R. Cohen, @megancummins.bsky.social, @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social, Leah Price, @becquer.bsky.social, and Gustavus Stadler share what they’re reading. Recs here →
On Our Nightstands: July 2026 - Public Books
At “Public Books,” our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we…
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#Sugarwork. Sugar flow. What’s missing from this chart? So many sugar thoughts after co-presenting at a brilliant Tate, International Slavery Museum event at the Liverpool World Museum with the amazing Imani Jacqueline Brown on legacies of the plantation. #BlackEcologies
I write each new sentence, each essay, to get closer to something I couldnt know before. Not a given for every author or scholar.
Each artist will develop projects & recommendations for the #AfroAsia Reading Room in collaboration with the Lab on the xroads of stolen land & life. Twinning the archipelagos of the Caribbean & the Philippines, we’re thrilled to fund this global exchange on Island Dreaming in a historic NYC house.
Congratulations to our new 2026-7 Artists-in-Residence at Dark Lab, my climate research org with a location on @governorsisland.bsky.social. Kandis Williams and Stephanie Syjuco.
Congratulations to our new 2026-7 Artists-in-Residence at Dark Lab, my climate research org with a location on @governorsisland.bsky.social. Kandis Williams and Stephanie Syjuco.
Falling back into night writing, free writing. 🌙
I finished writing a chapter and an essay today after many months of trying. 5,000 words total. As a work from home + work in-person mother of a toddler with zero childcare, please clap 🫠👶🏽🫶🏽🧒🏽 or cry with me
Triumphant. New York, New York. Say it twice. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
this is what happens when you have a government composed of people with no vision, no beliefs and no animating principle beyond the ironclad certainty that they deserve to be in charge, and the people they don't like are illegitimate scum
Kristen@ansibledialectics.bsky.social · 2mo agoPhone ban, social media ban & curfew, trans bathroom ban, trans youth healthcare ban, repeated protest ban, arrests of peaceful protestors for Palestine. All this government seems able to do is ban, ban, ban. No positive vision of the future, just kneejerk authoritarian crackdowns.
Cathartic!! Tbh the unthinkable moments that show us there's a political future. 🏀🏀🫠
A microbiome's feast. alt-text: two photos of different kinds of fermented vegetables in jars of various sizes.
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy fermentation library!
