“Home is a Photograph. Blackness and Belonging in the world” a keynote by Leigh Raiford at the Centre for Humanities Research

Congrats to UC Berkeley Profs. Leigh Raiford (@professoroddjob) + Saira Mohamed for being selected as recipients of this year’s #BerlinPrize ! Their groundbreaking work in African American studies and law, respectively, promises new powerful insights. bit.ly/41CBrfl

The documentary I’m part of just won an NAACP Image Awards® 🤯 Congratulations to director #ChristineTurner on “Lynching Postcards: ‘Token of a Great Day’”

I hope we can escalate our support of each other (and those we do not know), because we are all we got.

My colleagues are dope
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Merci pour tout.
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Y'all. Justice Sotomayor can count votes. She knows where this is headed... either viability is gone or Roe is gone.

Her questions are for the public... to let us know that abortion isn't the end. It's just beginning of the unraveling of these other rights of intimate life.

What’s your favorite font and why is it Garamond ?

Proud to have lent my talking head to this short sharp work directed by #ChristineTurner now streaming

Proud of the work we’re doing African Diaspora Studies, U.C. Berkeley thru #TheBlackStudiesCollaboratory w/ the support of Mellon Foundation

Our TT Asst Prof search is still open. And it’s WIDE open: anti-blackness in the US & the AD: abolition studies, digital media, critical race approaches to data science & mapping, museum studies, racial capitalism, trans/queer/feminist theory, critical disability studies. Apply!

#CatchingUpWithJune first recording with #AngelaYDavis & Pratibha Parmar is available

with gratitude #CatchingUpWithJune

same same…Been crying for the last week #CatchingUpWithJune

Cannot tell you how excited 19 yo baby Black feminist budding cinephile me is that 48 yo me is moderating this conversation on Monday! Please join all of us!

🚨come be my colleague 🚨

Spotlight on Leigh Raiford, MAAH Stone Juror since 2019, & recent recipient of $2.8 mil grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the “The Black Studies Collaboratory” @ UC Berkeley. Congrats to Leigh & team! More info about Leigh & her work: vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/leigh-….

It was a beautiful week in which everyone showed up w care & generosity & held space for each other’s most radical & most tender dreams. Thank you all! #GlobalBlackFeminismsSummerLab #BlackStudiesCollaboratory African Diaspora Studies, U.C. Berkeley