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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · May 1

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On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · May 1

"I'm just trying to tell the truth and I think in order to do that we will have to invent, in addition to new forms, new modes and new idioms."
—Toni Cade Bambara

Honored and humbled.
My book received the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from AERA Division B.🖤
Save 30% on the paperback until May 31st! 👇🏿

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Apr 29

Rebecca, I’m sad to have missed you this year. As always, I’m so appreciative of your support and the ways you continue to lift the project! 🙏🏿

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Apr 27

Brazenly stealing this photo from the @sunypress.bsky.social feed to reshare here because one of the things I’m most bummed to have missed at #AERA2025 is seeing @wilsonokello.bsky.social live & in person with his wonderful book, On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means To Be Human 🤩

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · Apr 24

ON BLACKNESS, LIVELINESS, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development. #AERA2025 #ReadUP at booth 305 and save 30% with code SAERA25 tinyurl.com/2fpecaeu

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Apr 4

Looking forward to joining The Possibilities Project at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, for their colloquium. TPP is an arts-informed knowledge hub reimagining education in ways that center the wellbeing of Black youth. Honored to be part of this important work. 🖤 Hope to see you there.

Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Mar 18

Excited to learn with Dr. Chezare Warren this coming Thursday!

On Mourning, Possibility, and Black Education in the Right Now | 🗓 March 20, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET | 📍 Virtual Event

Register here: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Mar 6

🚨 Tonight at 6:30 PM! 🚨 Join us for a Deep Study Roundtable with Black Study in Education Lab Faculty-in-Residence, Dr. @tichavakunda.bsky.social , as we engage with Derrick Bell’s theory of racial realism. #BlackStudy #DeepStudy #RacialRealism

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨 Black Possibility as Creative Praxis Webinar🚨

Excited to learn with the brilliant @drtanksley.bsky.social this week!

📅 Feb 27 | 12–1 PM (EST)
📢 The Power and Potentiality of Abolitionist Tech
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/r/jC22BKxRBx

#BlackStudy #AbolitionistTech #CreativePraxis

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Feb 3

Registration link: forms.office.com/r/jC22BKxRBx

Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Feb 3

How do Black creative practices disrupt anti-Black violence in education? Drawing inspiration from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s–70s, this series explores how Black cultural production serves as a tool for healing, resistance, and reimagining education. Join us Thursday; registration below.

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Dec 13

Likewise!

Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Dec 13

I appreciate it!🙏🏿

Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you!

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you so much!🙏🏿

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Dec 13

Appreciate you, Nupe 👌🏿

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Dec 13

🤣🤣 🖤👊🏿

Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Nov 25

👋🏿 new to BlueSky and still figuring it out🙃, but here is a quick intro:
- Assistant Prof. at Penn State
- #creative (performance poetry)
- I read, write, and study at the nexus of #BlackStudies and #Education
- ΚΑΨ ♦️
- #author of #newbook 💫

#academicsky #blacksky #edusky #blackademic #blackbooksky

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thank you for this. Please add me🙏🏿

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thank you for this! Can you please add me?

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Nov 25

Please add. Thank you!

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · Nov 14

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars

go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

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Wilson Okello @wilsonokello.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thank you so much for sharing in the experience, Gabriel. I continue to be so grateful to be in this work with you.🙌🏿🖤

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · Nov 25

An honor to bear witness to Dr. @wilsonokello.bsky.social book talk “On Blackness, Liveliness, & What It Means to Be Human” at Strive Bookstore. Also, loved it happening outside of the sterile conference space in a beautiful Black owned bookstore as Dr. @hallofacademia.bsky.social reminded us.

Person standing in front of podium with microphone and person sitting in chair in back of them.

“A powerful Igbo axiom states that “mmadu bu oku na mmiri” (“the enlightened one is a synthesis of fire and water”)

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Nov 9

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.

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