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Mariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 6h

I got myself a little PT job. I get paid next week. However! Someone duped my debit card and cleaned my bank account completely out. 😩 I am fucking cooked until I get my refund and a new card. Can anyone help with groceries and OOP medical expenses? Raising $100 for the dentist, $150 for food. 🙏🏾

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Amanda Marie Martinez @amamartinez.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I had *so* much fun talking about the question of Dolly Parton as a working class icon (??) w Yami Rodriguez & Justin Randolph for the + Working History podcast! Check it out: tr.ee/jmPknWjt8X

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Working History Official: Instagram, X | Linktree

View workinghistorypodcast’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Soundcloud here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Palmer Memorial Institute is the only designated Black women’s history site in North Carolina. Thanks to an ambitious preservation and adaptive reuse plan, the campus will soon welcome learners again. Loved covering this project!

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Historic Black School at Heart of Development Plans in North Carolina Town

The Palmer Memorial Institute campus, once home to Charlotte Hawkins Brown, will continue to anchor Sedalia as the town grows.

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Tim Hsu @timhsu.net · 14/10/2026

PSA: For anyone writing a recommendation for the NSF grad fellowship this year, recs are due on Fri Oct 16, 8pm Eastern, cleverly *before* the actual application deadline. This tidbit isn't on the NSFGRF front page anymore; it's buried inside the program solicitation:

From the NSFGRF program solicitation:

Reference letters are due Friday, October 16 by 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Reference letters must be submitted through the NSF Reference Letter System in Research.gov and will not be accepted after 8:00 p.m. ET.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.

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Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"The terrain she [Soyica Diggs Colbert] covers manages to be simultaneously vast and intimate... if Black women’s friendships and artistry, coupled with political action and finely observed emotional nuance, are your siren’s call, then Colbert’s book is a rare treat." -- Joan Morgan @nytimes.com

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Book Review: ‘Freedom’s Gate,’ by Soyica Diggs Colbert (Gift Article)

A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance and politics collided.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My very fav young journo + the ever brilliant Shamus Khan & Jennifer Hirsh on why our rage at Cornell & the world is right and how it can be put to good use to make this “the last Jane Doe.”

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The Architecture of Campus Assault

College sexual assault is predictable. Here's how to change that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).

The revealing moments in the civil service were lonelier. They occurred inside people’s hearts and minds, and seldom leaked to the press. After his arrival at the IRS, one of Gavin Kliger’s first acts had been to demand that the agency fire its 6,700 probationary workers, who had yet to be granted civil service protection. By law they could be fired only for poor performance. Gavin had asked Traci DiMartini, in her capacity as head of human resources, to agree to put her name on an email to the mostly young employees telling them that they had failed at their jobs. The Doge people played this trick often. They’d use or try to use civil servants as a kind of ventriloquist dummy so that they, the Doge workers, could keep their names off official documents. But Traci took one look at the email, saw it was plainly a lie, and refused to have anything to do with it. The price of that single act of resistance was her job. Gavin didn’t have the authority to fire Traci, but his new acting commissioner did. “He asked Melanie to fire Traci, and Melanie did it,” said Kathleen.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy to share that the next book to appear in the Black Outdoors book series is ‘The Black Outside’ by the great poet Dr. Joy Priest. The book is now available for preorder @dukepress.bsky.social

Cover of The Black Outside by Joy Priest. Cover is peach and centers a color photograph of four Black children and a baby standing within and sitting on a tree. The text is in gray.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Three days: sanctioning the international criminal court, announcing that the firing-squad execution of NH will be live-streamed, investigating the WH press on bogus antitrust charges, searching IO’s home on transparently pretextual immigration charges, financing Putin, jettisoning Zelensky.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

W.E.B Du Bois Collection www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopl...

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NPR @npr.org · 10/10/2026

It has been one year since Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, but Palestinians say the past 12 months have been a ceasefire in name only. n.pr/3TxsXs9

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Photos: What a year of ceasefire in Gaza looks like

It has been one year since Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, but Palestinians say the past 12 months have been a ceasefire in name only.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

After 12 years of seeming invincibility, the Modi regime is showing cracks due to widespread youth protests. This is the story to watch!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Part of what happens with this strict separation between "policing" and "immigration enforcement" is the refusal to connect the dots on a child being shot in Mississippi and a father being shot in front of his child in NYC because this Black guy happens to be from Senegal.

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Demonic Grounds at Yale…

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.

Black & white photo of “Black Community Survival Conference: Serve the People Body & Sold” —a banner hanging above a group of people standing on a platform. This is a photo depicting the work of the Black Panther Party.

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You may have heard that nonfiction's having a rough time. I investigated for @thewalrus.ca. And it's very true, but not for the reasons you might think. thewalrus.ca/nonfiction-i...

An image of a big red book that says "FICTION" on the cover. Behind it, a smaller book that says "NON-FICTION" tries to peek out.

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I 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...

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Donate to A Fresh Start: Help Jourdain Move, organized by Jourdain Searles

I 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

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'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.

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Arrianna 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...

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PERSPECTIVE: Caregiving is Black America’s new health crisis • The TRiiBE

In Black families, caregiving is often a love letter — but is it also a burden that’s too heavy for one person to carry?

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I 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?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’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.

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CDC 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

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Freddie 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...

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On Freddie Jackson

A 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…

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Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

Gotcha! You know I don't know what I'm doing. 😁

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Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

Preorder 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!

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That's My Heart by Antonia Randolph - Paper

Scholarship 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.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 07/10/2026

When 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/4hxqrv3

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The unseen toll: Depression, anxiety plague Black women a year after being fired by DOGE

DOGE cuts dismantled a job pipeline for D.C.'s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up it up.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

About 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.

A photograph of an art exhibit from the Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein library showing a shelf of redacted Epstein files

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What 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?

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And 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

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Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Can't believe that this is the last year. What a gift this community has been!

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I 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...)

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BLACK FEMINIST THEORY SUMMER INSTITUTE

Abundance

AUGUST 2-6, 2027

Kemi Adeyemi
Moya Bailey
Margo Natalie Crawford
Crystal Donkor
Uri McMillan
Petal Samuel
Marisa Solomon
Shatema Threadcraft

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Antonia Randolph @baldwinvidal.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Much too few! Not even sure if I'd choose the same albums tomorrow.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 02/10/2026

Don'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.

Screenshot of chart showing how police killings in 2025 began. 680 were suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 112 were traffic violations. 84 were unknown.

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I 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...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

This 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...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It'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.edu

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"Rigged Election" Bingo

Spot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common story elements behind election rumors — can you get BINGO?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If 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.

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m so looking forward to this beautiful book. Reading the great intro now 💐💐 @demonicgrounds.bsky.social

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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