A few pics from my Du Bois lecture in Berlin on the 4th of July: “Coercion and Autonomy in Samuel R. Delany’s Stars”

Y’know, I haven’t been active on here in a moment, but Mastodon really is the only real microblogging/text-based app I would want to use. Hope you’ve all been doing well!

Davarian Baldwin: "We throw away higher education at our own expense." / Abolition at the university = redirecting its resources towards the communities who live in the actual places that host our universities and marginalized people within its walls. He proposes ARIS in place of DEI: Abolition, Reparations, Investment, Security. #focwg23 #highered #abolition #dei #socialjustice #antiracism

Faculty of Color Working Group symposium off to a wonderful start with a keynote by Prof. Lorgia Garcia Peña. "We must insist on community as an action, as a verb…" #focwg23

Tmw your grad school colleague wins a #Pulitzer. Always been in awe of Andrea Chu’s meteoric rise. Massive congrats to her!