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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm so excited to share my newest publication at @thejop.bsky.social "Intersectional Threat" argues that all threats are experienced based on social location and orientation to power. This paper has been under review since Jan 22. I'm SO happy it is finally out. www.academia.edu/176155961/In...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.

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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The news media isn't covering the lynchings of Black folks enough for me.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New headshots from Lakesha Miner Photography. I'm elated at how they came out!

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 18/09/2026

The @aaup.org is offering a webinar on FOIA for better tech shared governance on Monday 21 September, led by @hellobrittparis.bsky.social and @jedbrown.org . Check your email for AAUP for signup!

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/09/2026

For my newsletter, I wrote about how we shouldn't ignore that a billionaire trying to build data centers is putting a hundred million into Republican anti-trans ads in these midterms. www.burnsnotice.com/the-data-cen...

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The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People

Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

REGISTRATION IS OPEN for my new course, Black Feminist (Insurgent) Politics, the intro course for my new writing and learning institute, Invisible Ink, building on my debut book Black Women Taught Us. ✨ Oct 5 – Nov 4, 2026 via Zoom Registration closes Sept. 25th Enroll: coloredconvos.com/courses

Cover image for the course. BLACK FEMINIST INSURGENT POLITICS. DATES OCTOBER 6 THRU NOVEMBER 4TH, INSTRUCTORS: JENN M JACKSON AND GUESTS, LECTURES ON MONDAYS AND DISCUSSIONS ON Wednesdays

Cover of the book Black Women Taught Us in hues of purple and red

This seminar critically examines key issues, assumptions, and debates in contemporary, post-civil rights Black Feminist thought, action, and behavior. As such, we will understand that Black Feminism is global and diasporic. We will begin with a survey and broad analysis of Black Feminist history and origins. We will pay particular attention to how Black Feminists make use of standpoint theory, Black nationalism, Black liberalism, liberal feminism, and radical feminist thought. We will also investigate the simultaneity of race, gender, class, and sexual oppression and its relationship to power. This means that we will draw connections between Black Feminist models and contemporary queer and trans politics. In this course, we will also focus on Black feminist understandings of intersectionality, the history of this analytical frame, and how this framework has contributed to today’s politics.

Enroll at coloredconvos.com/courses

Send any questions to InvisibleInkCourses@coloredconvos.com

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

20 year old me is shocked that 42 year old me is rooting for Macklemore and not Chris Brown.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have been holding this news for weeks. I'm so excited to share an event I'll be participating in with @feministpress.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social @karnythia.blacksky.app and LORETTA J. Ross on Oct 6th at 6pm EST at THEE SCHOMBURG!!! Admission is free! www.eventbrite.com/e/2000312837...

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Feminist Press and Roxane Gay Present: FEMINIST CANARIES

Don't miss this bold conversation about how feminism prepared us for this political moment, even when the world refused to listen.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)

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Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors

Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

HUGE thank you to @jnovkov.bsky.social, @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social, @chelseaebin.bsky.social, and Gwen Alphonso for the conversation about my new book in Boston for APSA

Jenn M. Jackson, Gwen Alphonso, Howell Williams, Julie Novkov, and Chelsea Ebin at a panel for Williams’s Fatherhood, Race, and the American State

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For folks who are attending APSA in Boston, I will be signing copies of BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US in the exhibit hall at 2pm 😊📚

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Please stop recommending How To Be an Anti-Racist. Please. For the love of all that is good. A book that says everyone is racist if they think racist thoughts is not honoring the work of our ancestors and elders. And, it certainly won't get us any freer. Here's a list of better books on anti-racism.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At many elite universities, administrators are making $800k+ per year and chancellors/presidents are making over a million dollars. This all while adjunct professors are making so little that they qualify for food stamps. Higher education has a problem.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I refuse to produce work that roots itself in explaining Blackness to white people or queerness to straight people or disability to abled people or transness to cis people. I refuse.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've seen a lot of confusion on this so I wanted to offer clarity: "Woke" = Black. Hope that helps.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I refuse to handover feminism to white women. Black feminism has always been here and always will be.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

People would be louder about the employment crisis Black women are facing if they actually cared about Black women. Just saying.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I miss the days when folks used social media to do something instead of just saying something. Sure, words are important. So is studying, organizing, advocating, strategizing, and mobilizing.

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Quote: "Black women have long shown how people can pursue dignity, justice, and collective freedom while living within profoundly unjust systems. The question is whether the rest of us are prepared to listen." 👏🏾✊🏾♀️

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This feature in Forbes by Dr. Gasman is one of the most thoughtful, careful, and intentional write ups on BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US since it was released almost 3 years ago. When folks take time to reflect like this, it touches me deeply. www.forbes.com/sites/marybe...

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Beyond Celebration: Taking Black Women’s Ideas Seriously

For Jenn M. Jackson, Black feminism began at home, through the lessons offered by the women who raised them.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Watching these documentaries about the worst exes and worst neighbors has shown me beyond any doubt that police officers do not prevent crime. Half the time, they don't even solve it. What other kind of job has such a low success rate but still remains so central to society?

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

In 2 days, a new version of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth will be released from Modern Library Books and Penguin Classics. I am so thankful to the Modern Library team for asking me to contribute the Introduction to this critical text. It still astounds me that I get to do this work!

Image: Sojourner Truth's critical text with revised cover image.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I can't stop thinking about Jason Arday and his family. These people want us dead. And, they are relentless.

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Terri E. Givens @profterrig.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m starting a mentoring program for Black faculty at UBC. I informally mentor many Black faculty at all stages, including in leadership positions where we are often more vulnerable. I have written about my experiences in my book Radical Empathy and in my columns in @insidehighered.com.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The overwhelming quiet from senior scholars (especially white scholars) regarding Jason Arday says everything.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish folks made an effort to look out for and protect Black academics before we enter the news cycle. So many of us are struggling quietly. It's literally killing us.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm intrigued to hear how senior white professors, POC professors, and Black professors are protecting junior Black professors who are being targetted all over the world. You come to the internet to express outrage but where is the effort to support us BEFORE we are harmed by these institutions?

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As Black academics, we don't look out for one another enough.

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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Let’s talk “cancel culture” tho. *Look* at who gets truly canceled. This man is dead. Colin Kaepernick has not played pro football since 2016. Claudine Gay was forced out of the presidency of Harvard.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't have the words I need to discuss the loss of Jason Arday's young life. All I can say is that this internet age is especially violent, nasty, and despicable toward Black intellectuals. We are targeted more than any academic group esp if we are dark-skinned, fat, disabled, queer or trans.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just got the first blurb for my second book POLICING BLACKNESS from a scholar and public intellectual I ADORE. She LOVES the book! I can't wait for y'all to read it! Cover reveal soon 💜

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm going to teach my Black Feminist (Insurgent) Politics course this fall online for the public. There will be tuition costs on a sliding scale. We will work on core concepts, writing, and reading. Stay tuned as I plan the course and release more info.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

After my Threads about royalties and selling nonfiction books last week, folks asked me to expand on some of the strategies and tactics I used. So, I wrote a longer post on my Substack. For me, it's about building community first. #blacksky jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/i-beat-my-...

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Here's how I sold more than 10k copies of my debut nonfiction book

I wanted to sell 10k books in 2 years. I sold more.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I sold 12k+ copies of my debut book, BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US. It was Amazon's Best History pick and a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Penguin Random House is the number one press in the world. And, I still have to prove this book's worth to academics every day. It's exhausting.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I love that you're tooting your own horn. This is so important, and so many don't do it enough. 🙌🏾👑🎊📚 Pls pin a post with a good image of your book with title in alt-text, your preferred link to buy it, and how to cite you. And re/skeet your articles. I'm sure many "folks" appreciate your work. 🏆

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I published 4 academic articles this year. Two articles were in top journals. I have a book coming out in June and another book under advance contract, both at top presses. Yet, as a Black woman who studies Black people, folks will still disregard my research like I've done nothing at all.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Hey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.

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The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New podcast to start your week! Amazing conversation with Leigh Raiford about the origins of the field, the place of visual culture in Black study, and the analytical and imaginative dimensions of Black Studies. Listen here or at most streams: go.umd.edu/LeighRaiford

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Leigh Raiford - Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · July 27 · 1h 6m

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I finally received the full reading of my brain map from a few months ago. The results: autism, ADHD, CPTSD, insomnia, and mild OCD. It's nuts to me that I've achieved so much and never received a single accommodation.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm so grateful to the Gender and Political Psychology Network for awarding me with the Early Career Research Award. These researchers and scholars are a community social scientists who support and elevate the study of gender and sexuality and how they affect how we think about politics.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am ELATED to share this article I have been writing since 2015. I was a graduate student at UChicago while organizers fought against the closures of schools across Chicago. I theorize how Black Death emerges within neoliberalism. Available at Journal of Urban Affairs. doi.org/10.1080/0735...

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On August 17, 2015, 12 Black organizers launched a hunger strike to keep Walter Dyett High School open in Chicago’s historically Black Bronzeville neighborhood. It proceeded for 34 days until organizers surmised that their deaths would not be deemed significant to their political leaders. Considering this outcome, this article asks: how does Black Death emerge in a neoliberal city? I argue that the deaths of Black people—especially the poor—are inherent to the neoliberal systems within which many Black residents live. Moreover, I argue that Black Death operates not as a subtext for the struggling infrastructures and state-based frameworks in densely populated metropolitan areas but instead as an ever-present reality of the neoliberal city. I place the Dyett hunger strike in context with the 1995 heat wave in Chicago and the broader history of machine politics in the city. By theorizing Black Death in the neoliberal city, I offer a critical theoretical contribution to the neoliberal urban politics and policy literature. I posit that Black Death rarely moves governments toward restorative action to redress economic and social disparities in Black and poor communities. Rather, it is often Black and poor people themselves who resist the neoliberal turn.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is #marfansyndrome. My daughter had her first Marfan Syndrome related surgery on Monday. Surgeons corrected the curvature in her spine which was obstructing the full use of her lungs. She went into surgery at 6'2" and she is now 6'4" tall.

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La Marr Jurelle Bruce @afromantic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I signed a book deal with W.W. Norton & Company to publish my next project, COME OUTSIDE: BLACK LOVE IN A WIDE-OPEN PLACE. Let's go.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Where compassion is the open availability of care and concern meant to help, heal, and restore.. resentment is the defensiveness toward it.. I have encountered droves of people who resent my disabilities.. They hate having to make accommodations for someone who doesn’t “really look sick.”

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'Compassion Fatigue' in Black Disabled Life

I often wonder how my disabilities affect the emotional capacity of those who love me.

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