Reposted by Antonia Randolphjourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...gofundme.comDonate to A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move, organized by Jourdain SearlesI desperately need money to move and sign a lease on a new apartment. My … Jourdain Searles needs your support for A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move 7142135
Reposted by Antonia RandolphLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 4hI've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been. 9783197
Reposted by Antonia RandolphArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Some research even suggests that Black caregivers spend 34% of their household income on caregiving costs, highlighting the economic burden they face in comparison to the national average of 26%." thetriibe.com/2026/09/pers...thetriibe.comPERSPECTIVE: Caregiving is Black America’s new health crisis • The TRiiBEIn Black families, caregiving is often a love letter — but is it also a burden that’s too heavy for one person to carry? 178
Reposted by Antonia Randolph#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have long marveled at the stereotype of Black Church music as the place where queerness happens, where it is accepted even if simultaneously demeaned and dismissed as impotent and sinful. From where did the stereotype of the gay musician, the gay choir director, the gay singer emerge? 185
Reposted by Antonia RandolphElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study 751387656
Reposted by Antonia RandolphAlfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Freddie Jackson, whose death was announced yesterday, was a major force on the American R&B chart through the early '90s. I celebrated him here. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/o...humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.comOn Freddie JacksonA pity the late Freddie Jackson was best known by crossover audiences for the mawkish “You Are My Lady.” A sensation when it dropped on R&B radio in spring 1985, “Rock Me Toni… 0114
Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026Gotcha! You know I don't know what I'm doing. 😁 000
Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026Preorder my upcoming book, That's My Heart: Queering Intimacy in Hip-Hop Culture! It will be out in June 2027 from University of California Press. I argue that the centrality of Black men's bonds in hip-hop contributes to misogynoir. www.ucpress.edu/books/thats-.... Tell a friend!ucpress.eduThat's My Heart by Antonia Randolph - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 054
Reposted by Antonia Randolph19thnews @19thnews.org · 07/10/2026When Trump empowered the Department of Government Efficiency to gut the federal workforce, thousands of Black women lost their jobs. It also gutted the well-being of the Black women who hold up the majority-black D.C. community. bit.ly/4hxqrv3bit.lyThe unseen toll: Depression, anxiety plague Black women a year after being fired by DOGEDOGE cuts dismantled a job pipeline for D.C.'s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up it up. 16533
Reposted by Antonia RandolphKyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance. 410262
Reposted by Antonia Randolph#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What can St. Louis teach us about the intersection of the AIDS crisis and the Black Church? It was truly heartbreaking—Robert’s death, his family’s continued confusion about it. Especially because he was not the only one. Listening to the Hammond organ can help answer this question. How? 111
Reposted by Antonia RandolphNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And there's now official #PopConference 2027 info/CFP available. Theme: "Reflections: Looking Back, Listening Again, Writing about Music"; deadline November 1st. Dates: March 11-13 2027. See ya there as ever... popcon2027.sched.com/info 031
Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026Can't believe that this is the last year. What a gift this community has been! 031
Reposted by Antonia RandolphSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I love this institute. I’ve had the honor of presenting and learning alongside amazing scholars of Black feminist thought. This is this beloved institute’s last year. I’ll miss it deeply. Grad students, you should apply ❤️🌺 (link is here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...) 33316
Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026Much too few! Not even sure if I'd choose the same albums tomorrow. 010
Reposted by Antonia RandolphPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 02/10/2026Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 215469
Reposted by Antonia Randolph#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was interviewed by Emily Colucci for @publisherswkly.bsky.social about From Infinite World … an hour convo condensed, yes, but I am so grateful for the conversation! Check out the full interview here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... Preorder today! wwnorton.com/books/978132... 082
Reposted by Antonia RandolphBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgTierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It PredictableRepublican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care. 530399
Reposted by Antonia RandolphKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's Oct 3. The midterms are a month away, but early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots will start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home. bingo.cip.uw.edubingo.cip.uw.edu"Rigged Election" BingoSpot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common story elements behind election rumors — can you get BINGO? 817486
Reposted by Antonia RandolphSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently. 10802404
Reposted by Antonia RandolphSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m so looking forward to this beautiful book. Reading the great intro now 💐💐 @demonicgrounds.bsky.social 074
Reposted by Antonia RandolphTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7942342
Reposted by Antonia RandolphDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One more share for anyone in the night crowd. Thanks to everyone who read and shared today. 14413
Reposted by Antonia RandolphToshi @toshiandthesongs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Introducing EcoTones a new work created by @alexispauline.bsky.social Danielle Purifoy, Toshi Reagon Danielle Spurlock. Nov.7 Memorial Hall Chapel Hill NC. Info hellotoshi.events/ecotones Presented by CarolinaPerformingArts Wise Reagon Arts 🌳🌊🦋 073
Reposted by Antonia Randolph Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.orgSunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions 97025
Reposted by Antonia RandolphDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Great to see this review of Harmony Hammond's "Still Dangerous!" in The Brooklyn Rail. You can catch her signing it at the Leslie-Lohman Museum on 10/29. brooklynrail.org/2026/10/art_...brooklynrail.orgStill Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader | The Brooklyn RailThis reader presents a spectrum of Hammond’s voice from short gallery texts to lengthy scholarly articles and interviews. 022
Reposted by Antonia RandolphBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026- “Doing Something Unholy”: Algorithmic Publics and Reclaiming LGBTQ+ Culture on #QueerTok (Kelly Hoppenjans-Sanders) - Declaration of a beat: Ontic rupture in Kendrick Lamar’s “Auntie Diaries” (Adriel Elijah Miles) 121
Reposted by Antonia RandolphBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here's the introduction to the new issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS), written by me and my co-editor Dr Alisha Lola Jones: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...online.ucpress.eduEditors’ IntroductionAmerica is now in a moment—not its first—where backlash enjoys the full force of political authority. The lines between paramilitary and military, militia and police force, vigilante justice and the l... 1146
Reposted by Antonia RandolphBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The articles: - Queens, Bitches, and Whores: David Bowie’s Queer Feminine Selves (Skyler Jones) - ‘It’s all gay music, definitely’: Ethnographic Reflections on the Operationalization of the concept ‘Gay Music’ Within Lisbon Gay Nightlife (Marco Roque de Freitas) 122
Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026I just got this and I really like it. Convertible tote and bookbag, soft handles, and great choices of colors. Fits a large laptop. www.olend.net/products/ona 1110
Reposted by Antonia RandolphMistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A thread about the serial killer targeting sex workers in Philadelphia - please consider RTing the OP because major media isn’t covering this  39848
Reposted by Antonia RandolphSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Good morning. Sending love and solidarity to the students, faculty and staff, including the students that wanted to pursue majors (but now can’t!!) in Black studies, Latino Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at UT Austin 064
Reposted by Antonia RandolphNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's precisely because of the explanatory power these disciplines have for seeing fascism as the performance of masculinity that they are under attack. It exposes them for what they are: not inherent, natural and indomitable, but putting on a costume and playing house with national politics. 0127
Reposted by Antonia RandolphRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 21/09/2026“They don’t really give a shit about the quality of it. It’s more of a quantity game.” More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... 34519
Reposted by Antonia RandolphAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Guardian will stream NAZA on its website for free >>> www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comGlobal release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZATheatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website 3325176
Reposted by Antonia RandolphAlbumism @albumism.com · 23/09/2026Happy Birthday N'Dea Davenport! album.ink/NDavenportHBD 02610
Reposted by Antonia RandolphMariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026My birthday is October 7. The last 12 months have bent, shaped, stretched, and almost killed me. I’m fundraising for my life, and also a happy birthday. Goal: $2500 by 10/31. 🎉 sayheylenee at gmail dot com on all $ apps. paypal.me/sayheylenee cash.app/$itsdopegirlfresh venmo.com/u/dopegirlfresh 73267
Reposted by Antonia RandolphRI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 20/09/202665/100 #MutualAid #HelpSky 0515
Reposted by Antonia RandolphNicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaqdocs.google.com 1199209
Reposted by Antonia Randolphtru @thetrudz.photo · 18/09/2026🩵 Hi. I really could use some immediate support as I’m dealing with major income loss + ongoing health issues. A lot has changed for artists + finding other work has been tough thus far. tysm. • thetrudz.com/shop • patreon.com/thetrudz • cash.me/$thetrudz • paypal.me/thetrudz • venmo.com/u/thetrudz 04786
Reposted by Antonia RandolphLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...texastribune.orgMajors related to race, gender cut at University of TexasThe University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty. 9491214
Reposted by Antonia RandolphPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What To Do During A Coup by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson medium.com/p/what-to-do... - for those who are focused on electoral organizing, @ashdashlee.bsky.social has some guidance for what you can be doing now.medium.comWhat To Do During A Coup“Are we solving this or admiring it?” — @hardhatsandheels_ on Instagram. 110153
Reposted by Antonia RandolphAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026They're constantly putting money into think tanks, media publications, and friendly substack grifters like Matthew Yglesias to get the Dem professional class to agree to abandon trans people. They've been banging that drum for 2 years now nonstop saying it's trans people's fault. 229924
Reposted by Antonia RandolphProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026Some of the nation’s first statewide voucher programs were created specifically for students with disabilities. But most legislatures haven’t required private schools that take this public money to accept even a few kids with such needs.propublica.orgVouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ... 13386130