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#Blerd, #Womanist, #Writer, #Afrofuturist | Assistant Professor at University of Colorado at Boulder | Research: #SFF, #Literacy, #Education, #SecondaryEducation, & #SocialJustice |she/her| šŸ’–šŸ’š| Thoughts = my own (I think that’s a ā€œduhā€ thing to say, but here we are) | Twitter: SR_Toliver (but trying to move away from the #birdsite after more than a decade on it) | #BlackMastodon #TwitterMigration
Websitehttps://readingblackfutures.com
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=445gUJQAAAAJ&hl=en
My Book!https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003159285/recovering-black-storytelling-qualitative-research-toliver
Ron DeSantis Blocks AP African American Studies Course

The state used Ron DeSantis’ ā€œStop WOKE Actā€ to block the proposed program from its schools

Rolling Stone
I’m not procrastinating.
I’m practicing strategic patience.
#procrastination #professor #ProfessorLife #academia #AcademicMastodon @academicchatter

A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz

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Not to brag, but FedEx left a note on my door that they missed me.
"I'll have plenty of time for that in early January." #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon @academicchatter

Oh you mean the people who were ready to trash American democracy and install Trump for another term based on Rudy Guiliani’s ramblings and Mike Lindell’s fever dream don’t have an organized and rational approach to governing?

Interesting.

My year in books 2022! Here’s what I notice:
- I read more SFF this year (as one does)
- The books that don’t have covers are ones I reviewed that haven’t come out yet
- I read fewer academic books in 2022. I’m not sure why, but maybe I needed an academia break? I have some academic ones lined up for 23.
Read this and understand why Twitter and Facebook are failing. They’re run by people who fundamentally hate what those sites are, hate the people who use them, and so they keep trying to make them be something else.
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?

The Honest Broker
When I was active at the wikipedia there were a group of other writers who would follow me around and mark my articles on women and black people for deletion. They marked my edits CN even when there was a citation. They reworded everything I wrote to minimize the contributions of minorities to history, and hint at theories of racial inferiority. I'd just go to the library and bury them in more citations. It was kind of violent TBH. #threads #wikipedia #moderation