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Vickie M

@vickiemass.bsky.social
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Literatures of the Black Diaspora; black subjectivity; the novel as critique; the novel as theory

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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Black identity as always imperiled
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Black identity is always imperiled
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Notice all the black writers being accused of using AI in their works. Notice.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 01/09/2026
Through a statement given by Pastor Carl Ruby, Pierre Ronal Bel talks about the day his son, Haitian-Ohioan college student Pierre Damas Bel, killed himself over shame of losing his temporary protected status as an immigrant and being forced by ICE to wear an ankle monitor.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy smokes an unreal rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by Cynthia Erivo in Vancouver last night to honor Dolly Parton….incredible
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, no. Not Dolly.
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is awful.
thesun.co.uk
Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home'
FORMER Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in south London, The Telegraph reports. Mr Arday, 41, was found “unresponsive” at a property in Battersea on Friday afternoo…
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ghouls. Racists. Transphobes. No forgiveness.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
next faculty activity report I have to submit I'm just going to write 'here to be brown on campus'
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I am surviving 2026 by re-reading SCENES OF SUBJECTION (Hartman).
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The highlight of my summer is not having to check my email inbox twice a day. I'm going to miss those days.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 10/08/2026
It is precisely the people making a living by rolling their eyes at "standpoint epistemology" that most consistently catalogue the details of their own upbringing and identity before almost every piece.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 10/08/2026
Today's Atlantic story confirming something obviously true: most self-declared leftist "anti-woke" positions are about something that happened down the hall in their academic department.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Doubt that.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"But sometimes, writing about the life around me is the best way I can love it."
oxfordamerican.org
Mister Anthony
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.stlpr.org/law-order/20... David Diamond, Pérez Paz’s … traffic attorney listed on the 2024 court docket, would not answer questions about him. When STLPR informed him that Pérez Paz had been shot and killed alongside his wife, the attorney said it “doesn’t matter” before hanging up the phone.
stlpr.org
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 19/07/2026
A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
They’re clearly trying to give this game to Argentina.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 06/07/2026
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
A radiant Lupita N'yongo in a silver mesh sheath dress with a side arm  opening that reveals she don't need no side arm because her body is the weapon, okay? Okay.

(Photo is from Harper's Bazaar US insta carousel and they did not include a photographer credit. Boo hiss on that)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Birthright Citizenship is poised to become the next Roe v. Wade: A rallying cry for Republicans bent on revoking human rights. People claiming victory today should know that the Supreme Court gave Trump a roadmap to destroy it. My latest in @thenation.com
thenation.com
Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship is a victory that may contain the seeds of a future defeat.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Rufo has now primed Klein to accept the first step in the radicalisation pipeline of irrational fear over 'large-scale demographic change'. Klein is now openly affirming the 'concerns' underlying the Great Replacement Theory in The New York Times. Great job, Klein! You did it! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
But would you say someone who is, for example, hesitant about rapid, large-scale demographic change is just a 1 percent white nationalist?

No, I don’t believe that.

Yeah, because that would be like the majority of the country.

Yes. I don’t think it is a problem, or unfair, or even wrong, to worry about large-scale, rapid demographic change.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🤬😡🤬
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The center cannot hold.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Paraguay! Wow!!!
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Their goal is to institutionalize & legitimize the fascist turn, not unlike the earlier "viewpoint diversity" initiative that was designed to permanently embed discredited fascist & theocratic ideas in the university.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thank you to all the establishment media hacks who refused to use the word racist, white supremacist and bigoted to describe Trump and the MAGA movement and furthermore criticized the rest of us who did. It's definitely "economic anxiety." You all were on it. Bravo. Well done.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As we all know, getting a degree means you’re no longer black. The only way to count as black is if you don’t take jobs white people think only white people should be able to get bsky.app/profile/edro...
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Let’s go!!!
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
MY MAYOR MUSLIM MY CONGRESSMAN JEWISH
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Critical fabulation is not a one-size-fits-all practice. It is not a historical practice of punking the reader into believing falsehoods.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hartman offers countless examples in her work beyond "Venus in Two Acts" (2008), and so do scholars Marisa Fuentes, Jules Gill-Peterson, Jessica Marie Johnson, and a few others. Not everyone can pursue critical fabulation, nor should they.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One additional comment: critical fabulation is about the Black feminist praxis of an ethics of care.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It is about leaning into the violence of the archives to offer alternative narratives that matter. It is about recognizing and discussing the silences and violence, allowing those resonances to be in all their messiness.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Critical fabulation requires an intimate knowledge of what is in and what is not in the archives. It means having a deep engagement with scholarship. It is not about making up fictitious histories. I am so tired of people failing to understand that. Lorde, hilfe.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It is 2026, and people still think Saidiya Hartman and Natalie Zemon Davis invented historical information in their works. I am by no means an expert on critical fabulation, but it is not a practice about making up historical information.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
youtu.be/IoUBK1tIJIM
youtu.be
Triumph of the Human Spirit
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Black-Owned Bookstores Are Redefining the Reading Experience for Next Gen www.ebony.com/black-owned-...
ebony.com
Black-Owned Bookstores Shaping Next Gen Reading
Discover how Black-owned bookstores like Roots in Miami are transforming communities, preserving Black culture, and inspiring the next generation through books, events, and shared experiences. Explore...
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Do the work!
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
April is living up to its reputation. Is it cold? Is it warm? Is it both? Is it raining? It doesn’t matter.
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“However, when Billy died in January 2026, Marie-Thérèse had not yet obtained a green card allowing her to remain in the US, leaving her status unclear. She then found herself in a dispute with one of her late husband’s sons, who allegedly cut off water, electricity and internet at her home.”
theguardian.com
French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart
The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre
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Vickie M @vickiemass.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Catherine Belsey said “Language is not the imitation of thought, but its condition.” Feeling those words deeply lately.
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