Stars in her eyes✨director of Black digital & experimental humanities @umd_aadhum + prof @umdEnglish & assoc dir @umd_mith 👾 a she/they of @irlhumanities

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Joined December 2013
Beyond— beyond!— honored to see .break .dance included in Vision Unbound, an online exhibition of contemporary e-lit by women curated by @drigar for @ELitLab at The NEXT! The exhibit includes groundbreaking work by Amira Hanafi, Melody Peijing & Priti Pandurangan. Check it out!
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It's really about leaving on a high note, and with this I bid adieu y'all.
ATTENTION BLACK PEOPLE: There is a Class Action Lawsuit for Ginger Ale. Yall better sign up, this is the closest we are going to get to reparations 😭
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Today, on the first anniversary of my mother’s death, I will remember her by knocking on doors in PA to get out the vote—and when Kamala wins—by organizing for peace and justice. Let’s go VOTE.
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We are thrilled that @BarnardCollege professor Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion" is the inspiration for the 2025 @metmuseum Costume Institute exhibition. #MetGala ow.ly/3WZq50TIecs
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Thrilled to have brought Recovering the #RevuedesColonies into dialogue with #K4BL at the TEl for Black DH roundtable at #TEI2024. Feeling energized by compelling presentations, inspiring discussion and the important work ahead 📰 @egpalazzolo @jmjafrx @raffazizzi @NoelleRomney
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Hosting one of our honest faves? Yes please more please. Amanda Phillips @UMD_MITH, talking to us about game studies in and outside the academy— and all the things™ 👾👾👾
Join us TOMORROW at 4pm in MITH or online for our first Fall 2024 Digital Dialogue lecture! We will be hosting Amanda Phillips, Associate Professor at @GU_ENGL, as they discuss their book #GamerTrouble Register at go.umd.edu/mith-ddfa24-phill…
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Marisa Parham retweeted
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action 404media.co/someone-put-faci…
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I’m so honored to be among the remarkable 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellows and grateful for the spotlight I hope this award will shine on Black women’s visions & struggles for reproductive & family justice. #MacFellow 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Week 4 of Women's History Month & we're honoring Marisa Parham. Her ".break .dance" is a mash up of images, video, animation, & text inhabiting “spaces of possibility” around, across, and beyond the screen. We are so pleased to feature it in Vision Unbound the-next.eliterature.org/exh…
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All the excitements ✨
huntington.org/event/futurit… My colleague, andré carrington has put together an amazing two day symposium on #OctaviaEButler at @TheHuntington featuring wonderful scholars including @AMReese07 @amplify285!!
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I can't say enough about how excited I am to hear this talk— and to emerge ready to drop the word 'sferics' in regular conversation! But really, how often do you get to listen to the atmosphere and its objects, its electricity, its lightning... +
It’s the final Digital Dialogue of the Spring 2024 season! Join us 5/7 at 5:15pm for "Sensing Sferics: Electromagnetic Noise and Environmental Signal," a lecture featuring @jeffreymoro, Assistant Clinical Professor @umd_AADHum. Register now ➡️ bit.ly/ddsp24-moro-c
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So much of this, like all things, comes down to frequency— in every sense. +
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That's it for our final digital dialogue of AY 23-24! Join us in F24 for a new slate of amazing speakers. If you're local to UMD & would like to nominate future Digital Dialogue speakers, fill out out our @UMD_MITH & @umd_AADHum nomination form: bit.ly/ddfa24-speaker-noms
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And we're off! @jmjafrx is schematizing the (amazing) @life_x_code network of labs, projects, and initiatives. Today we are learning about Keywords for Black Louisiana, a project to produce a scholarly edition that actively attends to Black voices and needs—past and present +
We are so so SO looking forward to welcoming these folk to MITH & AADHum this week. Join @jmjafrx + the Keywords for Black Louisiana team for a meeting of big minds n' big hearts, doing the scholarship our souls need today more than ever. In person on Tues. 4/3 @ 5:15 | Hornbake 0301 @life_x_code @umd_AADHum @UMD_MITH
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So many different kinds of technical knowledge at play, reading both French & Spanish, the rigor of paleography. Shout out to the project's work w/ @UMD_MITH's @raffazizzi, grateful for his work at the intersection of minimal computing + @TEIconsortium protocols and strategies.
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Say it again and again. Understand a mandate for research and community partnership ⇢ Leila Blackbird: "Nothing about us without us" 🔥
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