Multi-hyphenate 👑 Sociologist of race, Black families & highered + Lover of food, art, and culture + Champion for Black Women cc: @SpelmanCollege 💙/ OSU 🌰

Joined March 2019
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"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us." -The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) by Combahee River Collective /5
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Is anyone still here? I know that basically I'm not either but if you are: I'm teaching research methods and I'm wondering if people have recommendations on reflexivity statements/positionality statements written by non-POC?
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“Passing it Down”
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🚀New paper alert. One chapter from my dissertation is out @Gend_Soc! Check out how Americans classify the gender of ambiguous names by using a gender-binary frame and racialized views. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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It’s my TEDx Anniversary! Two years ago today I delivered my first #TEDx in my hometown of Detroit! This talk highlights my work on trauma narratives and narratives as currency. Full talk: Is My Pain Your Gain? | Aya Waller-Bey | TEDxDetroit youtu.be/g8cNikk32uM?si=oCJD… via @YouTube
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Hair by Helena.
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This is fine and also college rankings are racialized and anti-black processes that ignore historical and contemporary suppression and neglect of hbcus!
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I love this thread, plan to read the OP article, & want to also add that the village is really a racialized, classed, & gendered phenom. The syst. undergirding R, C, + G make villages both culturally salient, necessary, & inaccessible for reasons ment. here & others unnamed.
As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...
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Today I write about how many parents who bemoan the loss of a "village" don't actually want one, because it would require them to interact with other people.
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Happy Gullah Geechee Heritage Month and Hoodoo Heritage Month. Today is a good day to get into one of the many legacies the ancestors gifted to the Gullah Geechee—stories about the Flying Africans—folktales of spiritual comfort and resistance.
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What does career "success" really mean for college students? In my first solo-authored PhD article in @socprobsjournal, I explore how students' racial and class backgrounds shape the moral tensions they face in their career decision-making ➡️ tinyurl.com/socpro056
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The landing page for the Center for the Study of Black Families and Children is now available. Worked so hard to get this off the ground. And I'm thankful to the team going on this journey with me. I'm in my feelings right now. 😭 artsci.utk.edu/research-and-…
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Congratulations to alumna Dr. Ruha Benjamin, C’2001 (@ruha9) on being named a 2024 @macfound Genius Fellow! Your groundbreaking work in science, technology and social justice continues to inspire us all. #SpelmanExcellence
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If you snag a copy of today’s @freep you can read my recently published op-ed in print! freep.com/story/opinion/cont…
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My book is coming! I just got page proofs today and it's just barely starting to feel real. I apologize in advance because I'm going to talk about this a lot between now and March! ucpress.edu/books/who-pays-f…
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Checking in to ask about course scheduling for folks who teach 3+ classes in one sem/day. How do you manage pacing? Do you do all back to back? 2, break for lunch and then the others? And how early do you start/late do you go? Pros and cons to various configurations.
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Spelman College is proud to maintain its position as the No. 1 HBCU for the 18th year in a row on the @USNews Best Colleges Report! We're also ranked No. 1 in Social Mobility. View all of our 2024-2025 rankings: spelman.edu/news/2024/09/spe…
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So much great scholarship coming out right now! My amazing colleague Dr. Goosby and her colleagues recently published a paper in @JofHSB focused on fibroids among Black women in the academy. @UTPopCenter @UTAustinSoc Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Good morning, academic friends. May your students have read the text, completed the assignment, and be excited to discuss today in class! Ten weeks (or so) to Thanksgiving….
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Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. 🇵🇷🖤 Puerto Rico’s colonial status and geographical location situate it as a locus of global encounters and ongoing displacement. As such, the Puerto
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