Marissa Jackson Sow

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Feisty #mom, #wife, #writer, and #lawprofessor. Enthusiastic about #law, #politics, #culture, #design and #style, #genderequity, #postcolonialism, #racialjustice, #humanrights, #cities, #art, #faith, #philosophy, and the #climatecrisis. Allegedly funny. Definitely left-wing, Jamerican, and Episcopalian. Artist, interrupted. The 🔥this time. Trying to get into Mastodon out after years on that other app.

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Why Black Families Are Leaving New York, and What It Means for the City - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/nyregion/black-residents-nyc.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PhdAmaka/status/1620428223875096576

Why Black Families Are Leaving New York, and What It Means for the City

Black children in particular are disappearing from the city, and many families point to one reason: Raising children here has become too expensive.

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"The past is our future, and the only way we can repair our futures is to go back in the past to make sure that our present is taken care of and that we keep on moving."

Listen to our episode 4 with @[email protected] on the debate on race in France: https://africanfutures.mit.edu/news/2022-10-26-mame-fatou-niang-working-with-through-and-around-silences-in-the-debate-on-race-in-france/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/_AFALab_/status/1620402791708766209

Episode 4 - Mame-Fatou Niang: Working with, through, and around silences in the debate on race in France | African Futures

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Just over two weeks left to apply for the LPE academic fellow position at @[email protected]! You would get 50% for your own work/scholarship and would spend 50% of your time working with me an a truly incredible group of academics to help build the movement!

https://lpeproject.org/events/job-announcement-academic-fellow/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/corinneblalock/status/1620218491315060736

Job Announcement: The Law & Political Economy Project is Hiring!

The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project seeks to hire an Academic Fellow to play both a scholarly and organizational role. The LPE Project brings together a network of scholars, practitioners…

LPE Project

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Oct 12 2019: Atatiana Jefferson killed by cop Aaron Dean while babysitting her nephew Zion.

Nov 9 2019: Marquis Jefferson (Atatiana’s dad) dies at 58.

Dec 3 2020: Yolanda Carr (Atatiana’s mom) dies at 55.

Jan 30 2023: Amber Carr (Atatiana’s sister/Zion’s mom) dies at 33.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ignantintellect/status/1620235717690658816

The Ignant Intellectual® on Twitter

“Oct 12 2019: Atatiana Jefferson killed by cop Aaron Dean while babysitting her nephew Zion. Nov 9 2019: Marquis Jefferson (Atatiana’s dad) dies at 58. Dec 3 2020: Yolanda Carr (Atatiana’s mom) dies at 55. Jan 30 2023: Amber Carr (Atatiana’s sister/Zion’s mom) dies at 33.”

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Tyaad til mi cyan tyaad no more 😭😭😭😭😭

What?!

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Finding out that TD Jakes and his people run TheShadeRoom was not on my 22-23 season bingo card.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mylifewritten/status/1619926195197591553

VeeAyeElle on Twitter

“Finding out that TD Jakes and his people run TheShadeRoom was not on my 22-23 season bingo card.”

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I feel seen. 🥲

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All these Netflix shows about biracial peoples identities… I wanna hear about bi-ethnic folks struggles. Tell me about being too plantAIN for the Jamaicans and too PlantIN for the Nigerians.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mayowasworld/status/1619739875552690179

Mayowa on Twitter

“All these Netflix shows about biracial peoples identities… I wanna hear about bi-ethnic folks struggles. Tell me about being too plantAIN for the Jamaicans and too PlantIN for the Nigerians.”

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🤣

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Husband: “Ok girls, it’s time to get ready for bed. We have a long day tomorrow.”

7-YO: “YOU have a long day tomorrow. My day is fine.”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KSVesq/status/1619879431069380608

KSV on Twitter

“Husband: “Ok girls, it’s time to get ready for bed. We have a long day tomorrow.” 7-YO: “YOU have a long day tomorrow. My day is fine.””

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Yes

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore described the recording of Rodney King's beating as an act of "nation building."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Greene_DM/status/1619359638574764032

Dan Greene on Twitter

“Ruth Wilson Gilmore described the recording of Rodney King's beating as an act of "nation building."”

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I'm in footnoting hell.