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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 15h

Oh I didn't even notice that I'd been targeted by noted transphobe @jessesingal.com on his gossip-mongering podcast! What an honor!

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Leave her alone you rank motherfuckers. I am Jane Doe.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It has been exactly 10 years and five months of refusing to believe that Prince is gone. Come back and tell us how to make joy again, we miss you.

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Prince Performs Purple Rain Live

ALT: Prince Performs Purple Rain Live

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you to Allison Carruth for this review of Deviant Matter in American Literary History, so good to be engaged in good faith by a fellow scholar in my field

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

international students want to learn, supporting that freedom is invaluable, eroding it is bigotry.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You have to just take a day to cry for it all sometimes right? I mean: our life’s work! Democracy. Learning. All of it.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, I was tired. I was 25. 🤬

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks to Allison Carruth for this review of Deviant Matter in the latest American Literary History.

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New Review of Deviant Matter

Thank you to Allison Carruth!

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Stop trusting people who sell out their colleagues. Really stop. They are de facto bad actors. And start understanding that those of us with jobs have spend every day of our professional lives fighting for more lines for the people who don’t.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Footnoted and with clear citational practice. No straw men. And if you leave to be a journalist or have the nerve to call yourself one, get trained first. It’s a real profession.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I have never been in a hiring situation in which the best candidate was dismissed because of their race, or anyone eliminated from the long or short list — ever. Oh - I have been in hiring situations in which people were actively campaigned against because of their race but they were never white.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Snowflake critics 😭 😭 😭, negative hermeneutics, sucky baby ed bros, start taking receipts

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Snowflake Critics

why do we have to always be better than they are

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

No one hates higher education more than the people who work for the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Well I spent the morning reading one of the most beautiful, rigorous, and thoughtful graduate papers I’ve read in years and I just want to say again that when putting energy into the bad actors of academia threatens to distract you go back to the classroom and remember that teaching is prayer.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Scope of care. Stop being cowardly and silent in the face of this relentless abuse largely targeting Black scholars. When it happens to your people speak up. Reach out to them. Do not leave them alone. Boycot the agents of this harm. Link below for a public post from Nishant Shaw on Facebook.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And Claudine Gay, and Kailyn Greenidge, and Misan Harriman, and my colleague, and the women pointed at in Harper’s article and and and fucking and. It’s enough.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I went after Len Gutkin and his bad habit of misrepresenting minoritarian literary and cultural critique in his writing and work today, no less because I’m just reeling after the death of Jason Arday. We have got to start calling these people out. substack.com/@kylawazanat...

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins (@kylawazanatompkins)

I took Len Gutkin on in his comments section and I’m going to write something longer. I’ll admit: I’m reeling from the death of Jason Arday and I’m set off by the shoddy Chronicle story about my frien...

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good Morning what stupidity will we have to endure today.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m making Tee Shirts with Namwali Serpell’s tweets on it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@namwalien.bsky.social is going to town on the Tyler Austin Harper Atlantic article on the Bad Site. I’m going to post a few pics below

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you think you were a token in academia, just wait until you figure out why you are on the anti-woke beat at The Atlantic.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

More petulant sucky baby tabloid writing and I finally, and for the only time, discuss the Chronicle of Higher Education kylawazanatompkins.substack.com/p/more-sucky...

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More petulant sucky baby tabloid writing

This time from Tyler Austin Harper <eye roll>

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

People: You can’t post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song: Me: You don’t have to be beautiful to turn me on.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It has been 3761 days of refusing to believe that Prince is gone. We miss you so much, divine channel to the Gods, come back to us.

The popstar Prince dancing against a pink background in the music video for his song KISS

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Independent, Worker-Owned and Reader-Funded News sources.

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