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Sarah Dohl ❌👑 @sarahdohl.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all. And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Despite it all, working on proofs this morning. Shirley Graham Du Bois has 2 words for fascists 🖕🏿

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“The university is not in crisis. For its active collusion with the designs of racial capitalism and empire, it is the crisis.”

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Has anyone tried telling universities that the current administration is a graduate student union in disguise? I’ll bet they get their fight back real quick 👀

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Éditions Ròt-Bò-Krik @rotbokrik.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Première étape de notre programme de printemps, l’université Tulane de La Nouvelle-Orléans et le colloque "Black Internationalism in Translation and the Cartographies of Emancipation". Avec Brent Hayes Edwards @annettejosephg.bsky.social @mamefatouniang.bsky.social @chelseastieber.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I am a judge for this year’s National Book Awards! Excited to see other familiar faces on this panel. With the current state of the world, spending this summer reading excellent books will feel like slow dancing in a burning room. Looking forward…

Photo collage showing headshots of judges for National Book Awards

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

There will be no tipping point. No rock bottom. No policy heinous enough, no egg prices high enough to make them renounce their hate. There will be neither regret nor reckoning, just our work daily and diligently for better, for justice.

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

There are people who voted for all this and are now suffering consequences. Please know that if they could do it all over again…they would vote exactly the same way. Craft your calls for “empathy”accordingly.

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you live in the triangle area this is a good time to get your produce locally and support Black farmers www.tallgrassnc.com

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Tall Grass

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Solidarity. AND Wish more people had stood up for the gasping canary in the coal mine aka the Humanities.

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

TMRW! 17:30 GMT (12:30 ET, 9:30 PT) -in person & via Zoom I'll be participating in this roundtable discussion re: "The Future of French Global History" @ihr.bsky.social w/Sarah Dunstan, Martin Evans, @annettejosephg.bsky.social, Ludivine Broch & Julian Jackson. www.history.ac.uk/events/round...

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Roundtable: The Future of French Global History

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

historian and scholar friends (I forget the hashtag for this lol): What are some good secondary sources analyzing racial capitalism/industrialization and Native American removal in the 19th century? please repost! thanks in advance!

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” ~Frantz Fanon

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🗃️ Hello, hi. The sky is falling. Also, can anyone please help me make out this text? It is from a letter written by a boy in an orphanage in Egypt in 1883. Thank you in advance

Handwritten letter in English and possibly Arabic

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Watching an empire tear itself apart in real time and it’s a lot uglier than I imagined

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🗃️ #skystorians Amidst all the terribleness, I offer a sincere thank you for putting me on to some resources on childhood in 19th.-century Sierra Leone. I pulled this out of the rabbit hole: a child’s drawing on the wall of a house showing children shooing away birds from the rice farm ❤️

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Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

@annettejosephg.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & I are seeking submissions for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "Children & Childhood in the French-Speaking World." We are esp interested in contributions that deal with race, empire, and colonialism. CFP here: bit.ly/3EIeVvE

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A kompa cover of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing is not a thing I knew I needed until I heard it

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“In this sense, the oft-noted discursive silence on the topic of slavery in Africa should not be seen as evidence of forgetting or denial, but rather as evidence that, in many instances, these memories still constitute…bodies of experience rather than discursive knowledge” (Argenti, 35)

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#afrihistosky Studies on childhood in 19th-century West Africa? Sierra Leone if possible. Tysm

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

#skystorians at the risk of abusing your generosity: can anyone recommend readings about ideas/definitions of childhood in West Africa in the 19th century? Please and thank you 🗃️

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🗃️ I am writing a book about children & slavery. The Middle Passage chapters are so difficult. Very very bad things happened to children on slave ships and it doesn’t feel right to turn any of into “argument” or “evidence.” I am trying to hold them in (with?) the writing but I just want to give up.

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🗃️In my sources the ship’s captain says in 1837 that he believes it was built in North America but I am hoping for something more definitive

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And yet the FN wins more and more votes each election 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#skystorians where do I go to find out where a ship was built? I am trying to trace the origins of a ship called Urraca later Arrogante later Iberia that sailed under Spanish, British, and Portuguese flags in the 1830s ty! 🗃️

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Grossman, the group’s executive director, read a prepared report noting that the group’s lobbying was “limited to history itself.” Please help out a clueless literary scholar: what is “history itself?”

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

If that CVS automated voice was a real person we would have come to blows last week. Meanwhile I am trying to find a black-owned pharmacy in Durham but it looks like they’ve all gone out of business 😭

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It is somehow mesmerizing to open so many books that claim to be about the African diaspora as a whole but only focus on the United States and the Anglophone Caribbean

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Before 2024 comes to a close here is one of my favorite things I did this year on Radio France Internationale: on my grandfather’s work as Nkrumah’s secretary, Black French women, and the soundtracks to my roundabout route “home” through Ga and Creole and French www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

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En sol majeur - Du Ghana à Suzanne Césaire avec Annette Joseph-Gabriel

Quoi de mieux, pour poser un regard sur l’histoire française noire, qu’une fenêtre anglophone. Préparez vos oreilles et vos lunettes, car le mot « intersection » va sans doute tomber En Sol Majeur dan...

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

‘Tis the season. I think about little Krissmiss dae once a year and wonder how she is doing

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

What “humanities” are we advocating for if we cannot even vote on one of the most pressing issues of our now?

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I am reading the MLA report on resolution 2025-1, which asks us to weigh Palestinian lives against *reads again* the importance of the MLA International Bibliography, summer sessions, and online institutes. I feel like I am losing my mind

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...

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Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote

In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate …

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

What is the word I am looking for? Is it annoyed or flummoxed or just plain stabby?

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I am reading a book published in 2015 that insists on calling enslaved men “adult males” and I cannot describe how this makes me feel

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

So far it feels like whispering into a room full of people milling about…which is different from the feeling of shouting into a void on that other hell site but maybe the same overall outcome? 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I have entered my tweed phase as a professor. I feel like @parisnoire.bsky.social will be either proud or horrified 😂#FrenchHistorianShoes

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

M. Jacqui Alexander writes that “crossings are never undertaken all at once and never once and for all.” It is my hope that by evolving into a site that is transparently iterative, Mapping Marronage will illustrate the fits and starts of maroon journeys, and the many stops along the way to freedom.

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Live your life in a way that doesn’t make a whole country rejoice when you are assassinated is a very low bar and yet here we are

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m seeing a lot of library love and I am here for it. Here’s my public library wrapped for the year 😃 My goal for 2025 is to work up the courage to use For the People’s resources to get more involved in my local library ❤️

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