Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I do not appreciate this inclusion of this detail about the assault lasting 20 seconds. It’s an attempt to minimize rape. 000
Reposted by Brittney CooperAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power. 26181181879
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Mellon is out here keeping humanities in universities afloat which is absurd on so many levels. But I am thankful for the way they support my work and some of the coolest projects Black scholars are doing across the country. Wrap them in bubble wrap. And read this if you need fortification. 0120
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I also really appreciate that Phil Harper who directs Higher Learning funding at Mellon is explicit about their support of Indigenous Studies, Black Studies and Gender Studies. And the framing of these fields (rightly) as scholarly. This is a stark difference from the conservative approach of others 1153
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It feels clear to me that there is very little understanding outside of academe of just how much humanities are under attack all over the country. But you cannot understand politics, war, ethics, or history without strong depts in universities in these fields. 1114
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comWith Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support. 15025
Reposted by Brittney CooperJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter 161539238
Reposted by Brittney CooperBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here. 1876079967
Reposted by Brittney CooperDurba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 08/07/2026powerful piece by @profcrunk.bsky.social on the existential threats levelled at Black women scholars, including Dr. Cooper herself "Black Feminist Waymaking Under Fascism" @feministstudies.bsky.social open access here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/434/arti... 086
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The thing that gets on my nerves about Graham Platner is the way folks keep being shocked that racists are very often rapists and rapists are very often racists. See also SCOTUS. See also POTUS. Racism and patriarchy are intertwined bc they are both about dominance reinforced through violence. 16413
Reposted by Brittney CooperKay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 09/06/2026First day of Plait/Form at the RAGElab hosted by @profcrunk.bsky.social was amazing! I even got to try a new craft. See next post! 172
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I have a new children’s book out. You can pick it up wherever books are sold! 0319
Reposted by Brittney Coopersknorc.bsky.social @sknorc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Thank you @profcrunk.bsky.social for calling out the issue underlying the scourge of mass shootings in this country. Mental health is the easy answer, and it is obviously part of the problem, but the patriarchy rotting our society from the roots has to be addressed. www.thecut.com/article/shre...thecut.comThe Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy. 03816
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos. www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c... 10442164
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The President of Rutgers continues to dismantle DEI despite the fact that we are a state school and the voters of New Jersey roundly rejected all things Trump last November. It is infuriating. He and the entire leadership team at Rutgers are all Black people btw. 518165
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I have taken up quilting. Unfortunately that puts you in proximity to sympathizers. Just this morning I told somebody “the confederacy lost,” not knowing i was right on time. As I usually am. Happy Happy indeed! 0231
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Girl. This ain’t the account for you. Read any credible book on Black Feminist Thought from the 21st century. You could read one of mine. Or you could read my white feminist colleague Kyla Schuller’s book “The Trouble with White Women.” Now go away. 130
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Racism perpetuates division. Not those who call it out. 110
Reposted by Brittney CooperRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 13/02/2026get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship 1341414197381
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I want the patriarchs and aspirational patriarchs to go first. But also: just like we have to undo internalized racism, we have to undo internalized patriarchy. However, I don’t know that you and I agree on what internalized patriarchy looks like, bc “male roles” as a phrase does not compute for me. 100
Reposted by Brittney CooperKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Perfect combo here. 461093252
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026All people flying first class are participating for greater or lesser reasons in a form of class theater that works primarily by making folks feel more dominant. I fly first class on long haul flights because I’m fat and need the space, but my “noble” reasons don’t change the class dynamics. 120
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026A lot in this question. In the 1960s the US Govt pathologized Black women and accused them of stunting Black families by being heads of household. So I tend to reject white racist ideas that assert that Black women leading Black families is the cause of social ills. It’s a terrible analysis. 100
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026As I said, I work in racial justice movements which definitely, therefore, do not center Blue Dog democrats. Anyway, if you feel your communist anarchist set has excellent gender politics and analyses great. I don’t believe it, but I don’t care enough to argue the point. 030
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I’m not talking about writers. I’m talking about movements. 250
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Black feminists have written extensively about white women and their role in patriarchy. 2544
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I’m a feminist in left movements. Our gender analysis always lags behind other more radical analyses of race and class and I say this as a Black feminist who is in racial justice movements primarily. 2432
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026There are so many guys. The whole point is they are all invested in patriarchy, whatever their position relative to left or right politics. 2260
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026It’s like how half of the hustle of flying first class is that other people can’t do it. The seats are better but they aren’t that great for the level of money being paid. Airlines play on folks need to feel distinctive and different even if the inducements are costly and paltry. 1387
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026They have to externalize the emptiness. They have to make all that inequality visible in order for them to *feel* as powerful as their money says they are. They have to dominate everyone and everything in order to feel like the gods they believe they should be. Newsflash: it still won’t be enough. 14712
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Domination is the only thing that gives emotional meaning to having all that power. They have more money than can be spent in a million lifetimes, but money can’t buy happiness. It can buy the power to induce collective misery, which will feel something when too much money still feels like nothing. 38724
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence. 221794506
Reposted by Brittney CooperSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland. 35590313675
Reposted by Brittney CooperKari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 20/12/2025The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT. 24896162
Reposted by Brittney CooperJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/12/2025% Black tenure-track faculty doesn't increase--it declines between 2004 and 2024! The Compact piece uses various subsets to highlight the small amounts of diversification in humanities & some social science. That's fine, but worth taking a step back to the complete data 437940
Reposted by Brittney CooperJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty. 1032871
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Attacks on academic freedom are off the chain right now. But we are a mighty bunch when we stick together. 0163
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025They put it there so he can find it on days when the dementia is winning I’m sure. 040
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025She didn’t even say a disparaging word. Why are Black women the casualties of white men’s wars? 712037
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Among the things I am thinking abt is how the left fared after Breitbart died, and after Scalia died. And wondering how things will go this time. And now going back to my fiber crafts and gardening. (I finally have some tomatoes.) 2260
Brittney Cooper @profcrunk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Yes. Nell Painter’s bio of Truth is the one to make this argument. 021
Reposted by Brittney CooperTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.” THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different. 4736113
Reposted by Brittney CooperNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/06/2025If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are. 753042531
