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Tavia Nyong’o

@tavnyongo

The long march through the institutions

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linkhttps://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/tavia-nyongo calendar_today05-01-2019 18:27:33

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The first and last “frequently used emoji” on your phone sums up your 2022. Mine: 2022 in like 🥟 And out like 🧟‍♀️

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Today is the anniversary of the United Fruit Company massacre against striking workers on the Colombian Caribbean coast in 1928. Between 1000 and 2000 banana pickers were killed in a bloodbath. The company responsible is known today as 'Chiquita.'

Today is the anniversary of the United Fruit Company massacre against striking workers on the Colombian Caribbean coast in 1928. Between 1000 and 2000 banana pickers were killed in a bloodbath. The company responsible is known today as 'Chiquita.'
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Woke up in Nairobi and started writing my Spring lectures: The Formation of Modern American Culture: 1945—2001. I feel like a proper emigré intellectual.

Woke up in Nairobi and started writing my Spring lectures: The Formation of Modern American Culture: 1945—2001. I feel like a proper emigré intellectual.
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Okay, I think that’s all for now folks. Don’t want to collaborate with evil more than I have to. I’m off to join the Clan of the Cavebear. You can find me at [email protected]

Okay, I think that’s all for now folks. Don’t want to collaborate with evil more than I have to. 

I’m off to join the Clan of the Cavebear. You can find me at samo@mastodon.lol
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Back on this platform against my better judgement to share my outrage that colleagues like E Patrick Johnson, Cathy Cohen, and Rod Ferguson, and now the great poet Amiri Baraka, are being removed from the AP African American Studies syllabus in response to right wing backlash.

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We are back in the trenches of another culture war, and as someone who reviewed the AP AAS curriculum (it was/is fantastic) and had high hopes for its roll out, I’m deeply disappointed by the College Board folding to pressure.

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I call upon leaders in higher education to publicly defend scholarship in black queer studies, intersectionality, and critical race theory from censorship and politically-motivated attack. Academic freedom is at stake.

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Here’s an idea: NAACP and HRC join forces to sponsor a Freedom Summer 2023 in Florida to fight the DeSantis agenda: register voters, defend trans and queer youth, fight the right wing takeover of higher Ed.