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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Beronda L. Montgomery, Jori Lewis, and Ashia Ajani in the same room on November 12th at the University of Maryland, College Park!!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Environmental writer series at UMD, College Park this fall!! We hope to see you there!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our Plant Perspectives special issue on "Global more-than-human histories of palms" is out! Immense gratitude to my co-editors Sophie Chao and Pilar Egüez Guevara for their time, trust, and brilliance!! www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m excited to finally see this collaboration with @postcolsandwich.bsky.social in print in this Plant Humanities volume! We researched and wrote our dissertations together, and we’re sharing space with writers I admire like Sumana Roy, Judith Carney, Romita Ray, Gary Paul Nahban, and Yota Batsaki.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Grateful to be back in Mississippi for this!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I didn’t know that sorrel (hibiscus) leaves taste so good.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The CEDAR Gallery is now open @UofMaryland and stands for Centering Ecologies, Diasporas and Ancestral Roots. It’s a permanent environmental micro art gallery designed to support high school and university students through climate anxiety and eco-grief.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Grateful to Dean Shonekan for coming to our grand opening today to cut the green ribbon. The CEDAR Gallery to support students through climate anxiety and eco-grief is officially open! Shout out to our incredible student environmental justice organization, 17 for Peace and Justice.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I’m excited to go to Boston this week for a symposium on Monocultures at Tufts University. We mustn’t forget that there are more plantations today than ever before, and they continue to harm, people, places, and our planet.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Check out our Black and Indigenous Eco-Micro Gallery to support students through climate anxiety and other environmental concerns. Please follow us on IG @cedargalleryumd for more updates on our student-led initiatives.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Our Black and Indigenous art gallery to support students through climate and eco anxiety is almost ready for its grand opening on May 1st, but student orgs are already using the space!! Check us out at the CEDAR Gallery history.umd.edu/cedar-gallery

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It’s official, y’all. I have a book contract with Duke University Press!!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

What a way to start Black History Month!! It was so cool to finally meet Dr. Beronda L. Montgomery in person and host her at UMD to discuss her book When Tree Testify. It was extra special that she cited my work in the book and included a whole slide in her presentation to explain why!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Last Friday, I gathered environmental justice educators from across the University of Maryland system for an EJ Pedagogy Workshop, where we shared syllabi, best practices, assignments, and thoughts on how we help students navigate climate and eco anxiety. It was an incredible experience!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

For folks excited about Afro-Latin American environmental histories, please check out these incredible novels on Brazil. #BlackFiction

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

These new books look great. I write a lot on arsenic and would love to eventually teach a course on the social and political history of elements.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

2025 was a decent year of travel. I went to Senegal, Turkey, Canada, and London.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

New book alert: A Global History of the Sweet Potato by Q. Edward Wang. I’m excited to teach this book in the spring in my Plants & Diaspora seminar on Black and Indigenous Environmental Histories in the Americas. I focus on seven plants but have some time for others, too!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m so happy to host Beronda L. Montgomery in DC and College Park Feb 2-3!! When Trees Testify comes out in January 2026 and you can see her talk at both Howard (Feb 2) and University of Maryland, College Park (Feb 3). See you there!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Not me randomly seeing research on agrochemicals in Latin America on my trip to London

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I'm opening up a Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery @umterps.bsky.social to help students navigate climate anxiety & other stresses that come with learning about environmental injustice & environmental racism. Please consider donating & coming to our fundraiser @framebridge.bsky.social!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I’m excited to read Rick A. López’s new book Rooted in Place!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“People of African descent played critical roles in Guerrero and the rest of New Spain as plantation laborers, mine workers, coastal militiamen, and arrieros. As a common pathway for formerly enslaved afrodescendientes, arrieros were also connected to emancipation and social mobility.”

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“Globally and historically, most mules respond to calls from arrieros. As of 2021, over half of the world’s mules lived in Spanish America, with a third calling Mexico home. How this happened has everything to do with the Spanish empire, slavery, and racial capitalism.”

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Unfortunately, this wasn’t my first toxic tour, and it likely won’t be my last. But it was an affirming tour for me with the People’s Port Authority and environmental justice leader, Monica Huertas, and civil rights leader, Ashanti Alston. I’m grateful for their time and courage and example.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It's official, I'm faculty. I have new "Assistant Professor" webpage at the University of Maryland. history.umd.edu/directory/ja...

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

In Winona, MS for a Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmett Till Tour. This is the old train depot where Till got off in 1955. He got round trip tickets from Chicago to Winona but, as to know, he never got back on. Never got home.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

They have some big trees at Stanford. I’m not sure if these are redwoods, but the eucalyptus trees in the arboretum are huge and numerous. I didn’t know they got so large.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A few black agrarian histories in the United States.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Black and Indigenous Ecologies and Futures panel tomorrow in College Park at 4:30!! Hope to see you there!!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I had a blast delivering @unchistory.bsky.social's second annual "Historians on the Cutting Edge" Lecture! What an amazing department and incredible department chair. It was especially inspiring to hang out with Camille Goldmon and finally meet Jarvis McInnis!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The CEDAR Gallery centers ecologies, diasporas, & ancestral roots through supporting and showcasing of Black and Indigenous environmental works. It is part of the Indigenous Futures Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park and our first event will be on April 30! Please register & share!!

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I'm excited to get back into community-designed art. Over a decade since I last helped on an installation in Paris, I'm happy to know that I might have more opportunities to display environmental art works that showcase ecologies, diaspora, & ancestral roots at UMD's Indigenous Futures Lab.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Joy for days! I was so happy and honored to give a lecture and workshop research in the @tru-uoft.bsky.social. Meeting and engaging with Dr. Murphy was as joyous as it was intellectually generative. Toronto owes me not a single thing. Thank you dearly for the invitation.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

African Renaissance Monument in Dakar, Senegal.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I didn’t know that warthogs have such short necks that they need to kneel down to graze. This would have been an endearing addition to The Lion King.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I learned how to brush my teeth with branches from cotton plants in rural Senegal this week, and it makes me wonder if my ancestors in Alabama also knew how to use the cotton plant for dental hygiene.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We’re actively terraforming our world with plastic. Goats and cows graze in fields of it. Blades of bags and wrappers even sway in the wind like grass. Plastic disposal is a crisis across the global countryside. I took these photos in Joal, Senegal yesterday, but this could be anywhere.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I bought a few books on my favorite street in Mexico City: Donceles.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Mole Rojo de Guerrero is the only mole for me. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’ve been studying and writing about coconut farmers in Costa Chica for years, so it was a true blessing to receive an invitation to visit this beautiful huerta in Monte Alto, San Marcos, Guerrero. Mil gracias @itsme_diaan

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Three new books but not sure where to start.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Please please please find and read this brilliant graphic novel series by Saladin Ahmed called Abbott.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

“Once in a while a big book comes along that compels you to drop everything, clear your schedule and focus intently…” Vincent Brown on Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley (2024).

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It’s such an honor to look just a little like my mom.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I met this young woman and she calls me hers 😌🤭

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It’s been a year, poppy. We miss you and carry your spirit everyday. You’d be cheesing (just like this) if you knew that high schoolers in Philly read about you learn about black environmental histories. Thanks for all the fishing trips and for being my biggest fan. Love you.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Death comes with new traditions. I’m happy that I could move my nana’s plants back inside for the winter, even though I know she’d give anything for my poppy to do it one last time.

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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Coffee creamers from three different countries. Afri-Mate is from Tanzania, and the other two “coffee whiteners” are from Germany and Turkey. I might just start collecting these things 🤦🏾‍♂️

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