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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Black wh0res, beached whales, and demonic grounds

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

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As a UT Austin African and African Diaspora Studies PhD alum, I stand in solidarity with the faculty, staff and current undergraduate and graduate students of the departments of Black Studies, Gender Studies, and Latino Studies.

I have had the pleasure of interacting with all of these departments and stand with my fellow UT Austin Black Studies grad alums as we say “ABSOLUTELY NOT!” to the elimination of these departments.

UT Austin AADS helped me sharpen as not only a scholar/thinker and educator but also as an artist and someone involved deeply in community organizing. I have developed life-long bonds with the people who come from this department and can genuinely say that I would not be the person that I am today without the friends and colleagues that I have made that adhere to and honor this great tradition of Black Study. Without this program, I would not have become as specialized in diasporic notions of Black feminist, queer and trans studies. Without this program, I would not have been trained to ask critical questions of myself, these orders and the world. Without this program, my teaching would have been uncritical, unimaginative and without rigor. And without this program I would not have become a Black Sexualities tenure-track professor. Though challenging, UT Austin African and African Diaspora Studies made me PREPARED.

Myself and others will NOT stand for this and we ask all who will listen and all who are willing to support by spreading this information and saying NO WAY and ABSOLUTELY NOT to the elimination of these NECESSARY DEPARTMENTS.

WE WILL FIGHT THIS! Do not allow for UT Austin to cower to state pressure and eliminate necessary departments that consider the survival of our people.

#saveUT #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 12/10/2025

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is definitely a p*rno. Sure, we ask that it is engaged critically, but we have 0 control over that and frankly you do not need my consent. So though you do not need my consent, I still need yours.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A year ago, @blair_ebonyyy and I finished a film. There was a lot of conversation regarding how we share it with everyone. We’ve decided to share it now. watch (be)cum(ing): bit.ly/YOUDONTNEEDM... password: YOUDONTNEEDMYCONSENT (THIS IS ADULT CONTENT) Link in bio…

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I really appreciate you so much for lifting this up.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered. Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case. This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is why we have to be careful about how we discuss s3x w0rk or people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy. I am certain that Cassie does not perceive herself as a prostitute, but a survivor of s3x trafficking but look at the implication. We have to decriminalize s3x w0rk.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

There is no accountability, there is no safety, there is no honesty, there is no desire that will be quenched, there is no healing, and that is precisely why the state creates the fantasy of the promise that they could actually satisfy those needs/desires.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

But the system convinces us that somehow they can meet those desires, but even after that that there is still disatisfaction even if it comes in waves.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It makes people go searching as they are driven by a sensation that will never be quenched. Your heart hurts, you're never satisfied and you will never be satisfied.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Think about the emotional turmoil that this system causes with the mythic promise of justice and finality. And when a verdict like this happens?

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Re: F*ck Diddy and Prisons For context. I don't support prisons. But we need to be clear thatthis is why the state, the "criminal" justice system has got to go. The way that they can bend, pull, redirect, obfuscate, exhaust?

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Though, it will be part of the Black Femmescapes Special Issue (I will share those details as soon as I get that) it is now available through open access with Taylor & Francis. This essay is only a fraction of what will be included in my forthcoming book with Duke.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

For the last six years, I have sat with this work and can share that “The pornographer and the party” has officially been published by Women & Performance journal. Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍. #blackstudies doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23/04/2025

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

Welp... Ohio.
THE VL
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TOLEDO
CONTACT SUBMIT A STORY
In compliance with S81, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs:
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studios
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy
• Bochelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studios
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender Studios
Al these programs remain available as minors for stud
In compliance with SB1, UToledo is suspending admissions beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to the following undergraduate programs:
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Africana Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Asian Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Data Analytics
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Disability Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle East Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Religious Studies
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Women's and Gender

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

😍 www.landfoodfreedom.com

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

happy 85th birthday to the coolest person alive, herbie hancock!

herbie hancock, wearing a striped shirt and looking like the coolest person you’ve ever seen, sits in a white shelby cobra with red interior. photographer unknown.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/04/2025

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

“killer of sheep" (1978) is out on blu-ray and 4K on 5/27 from @criterion.bsky.social. one way to support filmmakers you admire is to purchase the re/release of their works. here's a photo i took of charles burnett as he oversaw the new 4K restoration. www.criterion.com/films/34233-...

charles burnett overseeing the “killer of sheep” restoration in a dark screening room.

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n0humaninv0lved @n0humaninv0lved.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I wrote a short essay on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ for @dozierayanna.bsky.social ‘s “Women, Workers, and Whores on Film” Anthology Film Archives screening series premiering tonight. The alternate title for the Zine is “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E.” www.screenslate.com/articles/gir...

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Girl 6

This essay has been published in “Women, Workers, & Whores on Film” Zine with the title “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E”

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We're having a flash sale! Today and tomorrow only, save 50% on all books & journal issues. Use coupon FLASH50 to save. buff.ly/ist96Uj

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 22/03/2025

I was literally 90s fine in the 90s.

The author as the first Black woman in the Video Virgins series in 1993.

The author in a custom Laker jersey in the late 1990s.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm very sad to hear that we have lost the brilliant feminist film scholar Linda Williams, whose book "Hard Core" was one of the first feminist historical studies of porn. I was lucky to work with her on the "Porn Studies" collection & her books "Screening Sex" & "On The Wire." Rest in peace, Linda.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 19/03/2025

Black Porn History is Black History #whoribledecisions #decisionsdecisions

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 19/03/2025

Currently listening to a room of 30+ sex workers in Rwanda discuss how criminalization works there. And, the impact of USAID closure on sexual health care.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In "Hemispheric Blackface," Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to 20th- & 21st-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Check out the intro for free! #PerformanceStudies buff.ly/VcxRetk

Cover of Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas by Danielle M. Roper. The cover features art by Leasho Johnson, Banshee #2. The artwork contains a black silhouette of a human figure, which appears to have its back to the viewer. A conglomerate of colorful, textured swirls covers the figure's neck and the lower half of its head. The swirls include blue, red, orange, yellow, light green, and pink streaks. Amidst the swirls, there is a golden shape that resembles a lyre.

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When We're Not Hustling @nothustlingpod.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In S3 E11 of When We’re Not Hustling, Jessie Sage and Dr. Zalika U. Ibaorimi, PhD, explore identity, race, and sex work—discussing humanism, Black femme identity, and the notion of “no humans involved.” 🫀

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Ayanna Dozier @dozierayanna.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The zine is off to the press, featuring responses by Natasha Gornik, Elspeth Walker, Lauren Levitt, Lena Chen, & Zalika U. Ibaorimi. It can be ordered via Screen Slate or on-site during the screenings (4/4-10) at Anthology Film Archives ($15). Pre-orders can be sent to my Venmo account @dozierayanna

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