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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Attn: Grad Students applications are open now until Dec. 15th I’m excited for the opportunity to be in conversation with some amazing folks this summer at Duke🌻 #blackfeminism #bfiduke

Cream flyer for the black feminist theory summer institute

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Ten years in the making, literally. This article is just the beginning of a much larger project, but it is such a joy to see it in the world. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

now out in the world (via onlinefirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) I am so happy to have penned this ode to a text for which I’m so stylistically and theoretically indebted & I can’t wait for the rest of the special issue of Feminist Theory to be live🌸

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From the shadows: An ode to Patricia J Williams's Alchemy of Race and Rights - Haylee Christine Harrell, 2025

This multi-genre essay argues the importance of Patricia J Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor as a theoretical tour-de-for...

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The proofs for “black Foucault: An Intellectual Reparations Project” are here!! I cannot wait for this ten year long collaborative project (w/my fav interlocutor Taryn D Jordan) to come out in Foucault Studies’ spring issue🌸🖤

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

HAUNT(ING) | HAUNTED | GHOSTS | INTIMACY First class of #IntimateGhosts is done! The room was packed & they didn’t come to play. Here is an obligatory board picture to show the entanglement of terms that will be shaping our discussions this semester.

Picture of white board group processing and associations with the terms Haunting and Haunted

Picture of white board group processing and associations with the term Ghosts

Picture of white board group processing and associations with the term Intimacy

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Half of my time being a professor is running back and forth between my office and the faculty lounge trying to print something😩

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Currently reading Taryn D Jordan on the Force of Black Domesticity: brill.com/view/journal...

Screenshot of page 223 in the essay “Notes on the Force of Domesticity” in the Simone De Beauvoir Journal written by Taryn Jordan

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Friday’s panel is sadly cancelled! But hopefully y’all will see that work somewhere in print soon👀 Saturday’s panel is still on! Stay safe out there everyone🖤🖤

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I’m going to be at #MLA2025! I’m excited to be presenting on a black queer reading-writing practice for haunting and the haunted & “the heaves” as embodied racial anxiety in Adrian Piper’s travel memoir “Escape to Berlin.”

MLA Session Queer and Trans Forms of Black Study. Friday, 10 January 2025, 12:00-1:15pm. At the Hilton Riverside New Orleans

MLA panel Black Women’s Travel (Auto)Biography. Saturday, 11 January 2025. 5:15-6:30pm at the Hilton Riverside New Orleans

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Lemme rant here too: not me and my brother standing up for a black woman worker at the airport and this man came back at us with this “TAKE OFF YOUR MASK. I DARE YOU TO TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!” The way this palm colored man’s face got all red and he stomped his damn foot like a toddler. Like sir😩

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

my mom still calls my job “school.” As in “Are you reading that book for pleasure or for school?” she is also the same woman who smiles & says “my little nerd” every time I update her on what I’ve been writing/teaching. I guess to her, I will forever be that little kid tucked in a corner reading 😂

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Holiday thoughts: everytime I’m w/my mom & brother together it takes zero time for me to realize we are WEIRDOS! Shared quirks, shared vocal affectations, constant disassociations, lovers of a silly little snack & good drink. Man I love my lil Aries trio, I have no clue how my pops dealt w/us😂

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

opened a delivery today just to find out my brother bought my dogs night lights for when we are out of town (our dog sitter comes by the house to take care of them but doesn’t stay overnight). Apparently “it gets dark & they might get nervous” && he claims they ain’t his dogs too👀🤦🏽‍♀️

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

how imma look hyping up my students next semester;

black and white picture of nosferatu (1922) giving a thumbs up with the text “YESFERATU” underneath

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Read the free intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social for the second Alchemy Lecture, "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," featuring work from Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. ow.ly/ScU150TTn7N

Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My tribute to the late, great Tony Todd just went up on @fangoria.bsky.social online! It features an interview @kundalinisteve.bsky.social & I did with him. You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149) www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...

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Remembering Tony Todd: The Legacy Of Candyman In His Own Words

Honoring Tony Todd: The legacy of CANDYMAN in his own words. Tananarive Due unearths a rare interview with the late legend.

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Archiving the Black Web has opened up our applications for Web Archiving School. Apply to be a fellow, instructor, or teaching assistant. Apps due January 31st, 2025.

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

your queer-feminist’s favorite queer-feminist #newprofilepic

Haylee is sitting down and wearing a black tank top and grey pants. They have tattoos on their arms, square oversized reading glasses, and their mid length red-brown hair is down and curled.

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

spring grad course on lock (&& at capacity)

Course syllabus for “Intimate Ghosts: On race, affect, and haunting .” Includes a picture from a scene of the movie “Carnival of souls” with people who have white painted, ashen, faces on a bus.

Syllabus page reads:
Course Description
This course is an investigation into the concept of the “ghost” as a figure that emerges and exposes the interstices between material/immaterial, real/imaginary, private/public, the past/present, right/wrong, rational/irrational, same/other, and further constructed binaries. This course will tackle the ghost as a figure of haunting while also questioning the very real material effects of embodiment, affect, and other modes of disruption that occur with the ghost’s emergence on the page and in our historical present. Specifically, then, this course will tackle the figure of the “ghost” in relation to questions and theories of racialization, spatiality, sexuality, history, embodiment, and affect theory.
Required Texts
• Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, Avery F. Gordon
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• Light in August, William Faulkner
• Passing, Nella Larsen
• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
• Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo
• He Who Searches, Luisa Valenzuela

Required Viewings
• Candyman, dir. Bernard Rose (1992)
• Carnival of Souls, dir. Herk Harvey (1962)
• It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)
• Passing, dir. Rebecca Hall (2021)—requires Netflix
• The Devil’s Backbone, dir. Guillermo Del Toro (2001)
• Huesera: The Bone Woman, dir. Michelle Garza Cervera
• The Haunting of Hill House, “The Bent Neck Lady,” and “Two Storms,” dir. Mike Flanagan (2018)—requires Netflix

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allison ponthier @allisonponthier.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

my favorite genre of christmas song is “Horny for Santa” and i feel like we have progressed as a society enough to add one “Horny for Krampus” standard into the mix

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Let’s try this again, Hello y’all 👋🏽 I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.

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Jadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Might revive the Failure to Identify series in 2025. It has been on pause since 2020. i provide an audience, an event, a venue, a place to sleep, and maybe even some funds if we plan far enough in advance. If interested in reading/performing, let me know. jdpluecker.com/failure-to-i...

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Failure to Identify — JD Pluecker

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you have Apple TV and are waiting for Succession to return, you should watch Bad Sisters in the meantime. It is such a fun ensemble cast and an entertaining and thought provoking take on the female revenge//“Good for Her” trope.

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I finally watched Seligman’s SHIVA BABY and this is a horror film right? The way Seligman shoots the last third of the film, the close up shots between Diana Argon and Rachel Sennott, it all crafts such tension—I’m wildly anxious even as the film has ended #FilmSky

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

this arrangement (put together by the trumpet player Tatiana Tate) is just OUTSTANDING. I love black women & femmes

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand returns to BTC to discuss Salvage: Readings from the Wreck Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck - Tin House

What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand’s latest book of nonfiction Salvage: ...

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

not my mom reading my third year review report from my chair & humming to herself “mhm, it IS a haunting.” neither she (or my dad) finished college. But when I say she is my biggest supporter I MEAN it—especially as a nonblack woman raising black children & even more after the death of my father.

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you aren’t watching #FROM y’all are really missing out. I just finished the season three finale and IMMEDIATELY rewatched it. My jaw is on the floor and I need season four like yesterday #FROMILY

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have yet to see a horror movie this year that’s matched THE FIRST OMEN for me (besides perhaps The Substance). This article really sums up so much of what I loved about it.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024

Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When a brilliant former student invites you to give a few words on the life & work of James Baldwin (prior to a filming of the beautiful narrative film “JIMMY”) you say yes.

In the foreground Haylee is in a white shirt and black pants, holding a microphone, and laughing. There is a screen in the background that reads “Houston Cinema Arts Festival”

In the foreground Haylee is in a white shirt and black pants, holding a microphone. There is a screen in the background that reads “Houston Cinema Arts Festival”

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the MACROaggression of folks who, when they find out I work at U of H, immediately ask “isn’t it like *super* dangerous over there” b/c we’re a majority minority school? Because we’re a Hispanic serving institution? Or because we’re in Third Ward? Like stop playing in my face✋🏾

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I need the Emmy’s to stop sleeping on #FROM because Scott McCord is just outstanding this season. Victor is such a nuanced character to portray and the addition of his father?? The whole cast is killing it but McCord’s performance haunts me every week! #FROMily (does this # exist here yet??)

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just saw heretic and I have so many thoughts. But I’ll begin by saying Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East were spectacular. The nuance of having Thatcher as the East coast daughter of a convert with East as the Ogden born (seemingly naive) Utah native

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

my brilliant, kind, and supportive mentor (and former adviser) Lynne Huffer has a book coming out w/ @dukepress.bsky.social and I truly cannot express how excited I am for this project to be in the world🖤💐 link: www.dukeupress.edu/these-surviv...

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

READ PALESTINE WEEK is still going on! Publishers For Palestine have made 35 ebooks free to you, to help amplify Palestinian voices. Educational books, poetry, diction, memoir, etc. They include many books on more popular reading rec lists.

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Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5

Join us for an international #ReadPalestine week, starting Wednesday, November 29, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Here, you can find more than 35 free ebooks in ni...

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

currently (re)reading for our last “engendered histories” grad class meeting tomorrow.

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

How to do we ethically write about the dead? How do we “not tell the story that must be told” of those “poem-lives” that have been deemed “less than history?” I forever grateful to my graduate students for holding space to thoughtfully grapple w/ these hard & timely questions.

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Haylee Harrell @hayleehar.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

On the docket for this Spring w/ University of Houston English. These classes feel even weightier teaching in the wake of the closure of the DEI & LGBTQ centers on campus.

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