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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

an aside - when i’m feeling down i go back and watch reaction videos to kendrick’s diss tracks. brings me joy every time.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

from coltrane to cuba to kirk (not to mention political chaos), this year’s already been one for the books - in the most and least fortunate of ways.

looking up at the cuban flag while visiting havana in early april.

standing in front of an alice coltrane mural at ucla’s hammer museum with friends and exhibit curator, erin christovale.

casually chatting with kirk franklin post-interview.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

i’ve had my head down working and taking care of my students (cuz baby my institution. . yea), but i’m back! (well back-ish) missed y’all 💕

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

approx. 170 million people will see this message. . . UGGGGHHHHHH

tiktok message thanking trump for bringing the app back (lord help us all)

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

my federal student loans switched to a different servicer, but it’s still processing if someone could shake some shit up right quick, that would be GREAT

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

oh y’all are over here being mean and smug. ew.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

yup, i couldn’t get in as of 30ish minutes ago

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

You know it's some bullshit when UCLA won't close for a damn inferno but will close because of protests. Utterly ridiculous.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

i had to go back to the first season which i LOVED just to make sure i wasn’t trippin. and i get it, budget cuts and such, but STILL. it’s such a stark difference.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

rhythm & flow season 1 they were giving CRITIQUES. specific suggestions, very pointed instructions for growth. honest estimations of their potential in the industry given their current artistry. i don’t know WHAT they were on season 2. i’m pissed all over again.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

my mama made a bingo card, my brother made a bingo card, bae made a bingo card, my auntie made a bingo card, my best friend made a bingo card i am a MENACE 😭😂

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

got the william sonoma peppermint bark from after it went on sale baby. . . that tik tok lady was RIGHT. i may order the big tin 😭

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

the brilliance of scandal that often gets missed is how well it portrays people’s perceptibility to power. your claws are dulled, eyes are shut, ethics dimmed when you spend too long in the “winners circle.” when the totality of your life is wrapped up in staying there.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

leaving tomorrow instead of sunday. not trying to see what that phallic formed winter storm has to offer.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

me and the fam just made new years bingo cards instead of vision boards. i ain’t never had so much fun goal setting in my life!

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

happy “ordered 4 pairs of glasses” day to all who observe!

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

i’m glad my scandal binge is almost over, i’ve halfway convinced myself i can afford a prada tote 😭😭

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

the thoughts that i thought while watching that movie. . .

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

i may or may not have something under review right now, hold tight!

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

WELP, christmas is canceled for one of my nieces. she showed her ass too, auntie can’t save you this time baby 😭

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

rewatching rhythm and flow season 1 and maaannnn the judges were sooo much better and sharper with their feedback. still disappointed in season 2 uuugggghhhhh

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces. What other campuses followed this playbook?

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Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters

Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

who at the feds is responsible for how luigi’s being presented to the public/media? because they’re either on luigi’s side OR very stupid. they gave that man an album cover!

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

doggone it, #sprint made me cry AGAIN. watching tee tee, sha’carri, and melissa qualify together?! done sat on this plane with tears dripping down my mask 😭😭

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

*the school is predominantly black from students to teachers - just in case anyone was thinking about trippin

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

spoke at a middle school today, you know i love the kids! they were so brilliant and inquisitive and kind. and look what the teachers had them taking notes on 🥹🥹

notebook page with “dr.ambre dromgoole” at the top and a picture of me at the bottom right. sheet is multicolored with black cultural emphasis.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

mellie should’ve burned that house down with everybody in it, my GOD.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

don’t ever let anyone tell you black people don’t listen to country. listening at the interstice isn’t always industrially legible. signed, a black girl from nashville.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

and all my church fam is in here too, let me not leave that out. the saints are outside.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

they made genres and styles blend like watercolors.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

just decided, i’m starting a side project. i know all the folks, they’re my aunties and such. lemme sit in some living rooms and press record. they’re how i ended up studying black music to begin with.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

in nashville at 3rd and lindsley watching gale mayes tear up the stage singing at the intersection of every style you can think of. blues, gospel, rock, country. i grew up in awe of ms.gale’s church solos. that’s the part of the “black country” story that’s often left out. hate it.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

folks on tiktok asking what people who live in belle meade do to make money. “those houses are so nice, is it old money?” baby. . . it’s slavery.

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

accidentally ended up at one of those grass wall joints trying to support a new black owned business in the area. baby, that experience was so terrible my sweet sweet mother who doesn’t complain about ANYTHING wrote an email. and it was an email, because she still didn’t wanna write a bad review😭

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books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

some of my family members are making their way into this picked marriage chapter. found out my great great aunt goldie (who’s name wasn’t goldie!) ran off to marry (or got married off to) an itinerant church of god sanctified preacher in 1918 when she was 18 years old. he was in his 30s.

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