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:: ... it's a really big bag ::

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That time I went to Montréal, decided to only eat Chinese food, gave a talk at McGill, discovered new amazing treats (shrimp dumplings in peanut sauce! dumpling pizza!), had one of the better bowls of hand pulled noodles I've ever had, got a new cat, and enjoyed a sumptuous bowl of chili cucumbers 🔥 (at Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpsnEHiObqx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Getting some prep in before Black Digitalities. Blue sky, fall colors, teaching interactive collage with Black archival materials… *no complaints* (at University of Maryland, College Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj8IcoVLsGX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Harryette Mullen on Bob Kaufman

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The thing you are most afraid to write. Write that.

Nayyirah Waheed (via surqrised)

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Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.

Nayyirah Waheed (via resqectable)

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Gearing up to build some more keyboards. But make it like Sunday morning. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcvNqomleAd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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At AADHum, we’ve been thinking a lot about what we’ve learned over the past year or so, running both a large fellowship and developing more than a few dozen #BlackDH events and projects during the panny. In our conversations re what’s next, we found ourselves compulsively avoiding framing our ideas as “we’ve gained insight into x” while adjusting to these times. But at the same time, things have indeed changed and it is our job to know that, as well as we can. As well as we can: In balance against our hesitation to lemonade the pandemic, this year we’re doubling down on developing programs and activities that respond to / learn from the complexities of scheduling, hybrid-work, and distant collaboration that characterized last year. Last year we were all moved by the breadth, depth, and sincerity of audience participation at our events, generating so much community-feeling, sparking so much new #BlackDH thinking, inspired by the intellectual energy of the @aadhum.umd scholars and their interlocutors. So we’ve been thinking about the smart + generous generativity of those gatherings—the relative success of our virtual event formats, & how to bring the insights of those experiences over to how we plan new programs, workshops, and project ideation/creation structures. How do we honor and support artists & scholars in relation to digital work? In other places I and others have argued for the numerous ways DH properly shares roots with and must always learn from the hard lessons survived and negotiated by ethnic and women and gender studies. Yes. But how do we move from critical DH insights around labor, sustainability, community-build, and project accountability (for instance), to new or improved configurations for funding, developing and supporting digital scholarship? So that is the nut we’ve been trying to crack in our moment of pause and evaluation. There are a lot of good models out there, and we have thus been thinking about how to grow our work, given what we continually learn from our own and others’ experiences. Now we must begin! . #tweetphoto (at University of Maryland, College Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcnKCisu8GP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A balm. And this entire series is gorgeous. ✨ Repost from @walidahimarisha • Repost @equalitylabs: “We can’t build what we can’t imagine.” —Walidah Imarisha💫 Beautiful piece by @ashlukadraws — made for the @interruptcrim abolition imagination postcard series curated by @micahbazant and Mariame Kaba🌸💙 #tweetphoto https://www.instagram.com/p/CQOcU7FBuhb/?utm_medium=tumblr

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This was a great evening. It came on a Monday when I was deep in the weeds of org work, and this conversation about space, vulnerability, teaching, and so many other things definitely pulled me back out. Thank you! 🌱 Repost from @bosnoma • One of our past events included a lecture and table discussion between Michelle Chang @ja_ja_co and Marisa Parham @amplify285. The discussion was anchored around the use of technology in design as an avenue towards racial justice. The presentations were followed by a Q&A and conversation with the NOMAS members. The role of narratives and the medium of installations are constantly presenting avenues to make use of new technologies by proposing new ways of achieving justice, and sharing new perspectives. (at Harvard Graduate School of Design) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNNYp8GBt4X/?igshid=13lcbp514jdbn

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Layers upon layers of sighs... .⠀ "So whether you’re planning your next holiday or just daydreaming, here are 50 beautiful bookstore to visit around the world," from @bookriot | hashtag sigh | https://buff.ly/3cKoytX . There are some amazing places pictured here. Spell me my beautiful in books, please. #globalbookstores https://www.instagram.com/p/CK_rO4ehMK8/?igshid=fvlnqlwdyp9q

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“Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.” —Maria W. Stewart • 🌀Repost from @blackwomeninvisualart • The Stargazer/Solace in the Stillness by @beatriceartnyc #artandwordsfriday #artandwords #blackwomanartist #blackwomanactivist #blackwomanwriter #acrylic #africanfabric #mariawstewart #beatricelebreton https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9LFzLh78x/?igshid=vd2bxmoffgxy

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In our house we’re still riding this #amandagorman poem, a feeling captured so beautifully in this @jojokarlin illustration. ✨🌊 Repost from @jojokarlin • “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” -Amanda Gorman 🌊 Manatee, let’s be brave. 💙 ❤️ 🤍 Thank you, @amandascgorman! #amandagorman #inauguration2021 #poetlaureate #bidenharris2020 #poetryspeaks #bethelight #jojodoodles #girlandmanatee #manateeandme #meandmymanatee #childrensillustration #watercolorillustration #rolemodels #lookuptopoets #nationalyouthpoetlaureate https://www.instagram.com/p/CKZTYm8haZj/?igshid=19qldacx3fi9q

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Dedicating this day to the patron saint of .break .dance, the complex and unknowable and inimitable Zora Neale Hurston. (Bey is the honey, but Hurston is the nectar 🌺🐝🍯⚡️) — Image Repost from @duroolowu • Writer Zora Neale Hurston (1940). Photograph by artist Carl Van Vechten. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJhvbWFhyPo/?igshid=1aprbr106yso7

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Repost from @speakpatrice • Kicked off my monthly opinion column with @MSNBC Daily today (swipe for some excerpts from the essay.) Best way to support is by sharing and reading 💓. And thank you @hayesbrown! #BelieveBlackWomen https://www.instagram.com/p/CI_rvf3BhW-/?igshid=m5aganwytuvy

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Repost from @blackstudiesccny • ❤ 💫 Reposted from @harlemunitednyc Find some bliss, find some rest, find some joy 💗 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeNp79B27O/?igshid=ofliu8xb36x3

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Repost from @aadhum.umd • AADHum— The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities at UMD— is pleased to present Black as X: Platforming Experimental Scholarship, our first AADHum Scholars Symposium for the 2020 cohort. In a series of conversations with noted Black Studies scholars, each scholar will offer project demonstrations, discuss their project process, and speculate about future project iterations. Join us in exploring the capaciousness of Black life through experimentation with digital methods. Join us the week of 12/7, daily at 1p! Registration link in bio. 🚀 #BasX #BlackDH #AADHum https://www.instagram.com/p/CIY3ltFDDSI/?igshid=tr2ah6l7tvj6

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I’m not sure how much higher one can climb to avoid passing out from dumpster fire fumes and just sleeping until Thanksgiving, but I am truly looking forward to finding some fresh air with my newly expanded circle of colleagues today. 🌱 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFwr1NYB-8P/?igshid=1q5h26doqo5ym