DocLB2
@doclb2.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
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You can buy my first book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
She/her
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You can buy my first book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
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New look at the rom-com, ‘You, Me & Tuscany’ starring Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page.
🎥: In theaters | April 10, 2026
(via Screenrant)
🎥: In theaters | April 10, 2026
(via Screenrant)
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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On Feb 3 TPS is being terminated for Haitians in this country. People here for decades. People who are students, workers, whose kids are here. At least 330,735 people impacted.
Haiti is not safe. That's why TPS exists in the first place.
I cannot begin to express the rage I feel.
Haiti is not safe. That's why TPS exists in the first place.
I cannot begin to express the rage I feel.
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Don't let copaganda fool you – police violence is not tied to their safety.
The vast majority of police killings actually start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.
The vast majority of police killings actually start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Don't let copaganda fool you – police violence is not tied to their safety.
The vast majority of police killings actually start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.
The vast majority of police killings actually start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.
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Dear white people:
Defeatism is bad … but ?
Watch your tone when you tell people especially people of color and Black people and immigrants who have watched for MILLENNIA in the long term and our ENTIRE FUCKING lives in the short .
Of whiteness resisting change
Defeatism is bad … but ?
Watch your tone when you tell people especially people of color and Black people and immigrants who have watched for MILLENNIA in the long term and our ENTIRE FUCKING lives in the short .
Of whiteness resisting change
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Truth.
I don't have faith that white supremacy is going anywhere because white people like it too much, & I clearly see that America doesn't unbind itself without unbinding white supremacy, so that puts us at a realistic standstill, it's not just pessimism.
January 8, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Truth.
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Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
January 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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"...I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace--not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
January 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"...I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace--not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
My favorite birthday gift 💜
January 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
My favorite birthday gift 💜
"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living."
- Zora Neale Hurston
Happy Birthday to Zora and me 🥳
- Zora Neale Hurston
Happy Birthday to Zora and me 🥳
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living."
- Zora Neale Hurston
Happy Birthday to Zora and me 🥳
- Zora Neale Hurston
Happy Birthday to Zora and me 🥳
Today I'm 39!! Just a month ago I couldn't have imagined entering the last year of my 30s without my dad 😢 but I know he'd want me to smile today, so I will!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
January 7, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Today I'm 39!! Just a month ago I couldn't have imagined entering the last year of my 30s without my dad 😢 but I know he'd want me to smile today, so I will!
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy Birthday to me!
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Doing this podcast with @smartgirl07.bsky.social and our guests lit up my 2025-- smart, breezy, funny convos about first gen everything, ethical admin & student practices, and (80s & 90s) culture. Cannot wait for season two fun!
I kept resisting creating a podcast and I'm so glad that I didn't listen to myself. Here's the final episode of the season where @samanthapinto.bsky.social I recap the Year of Smart Girl. Join us for more shenanigans in season two.
www.buzzsprout.com/2459505/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2459505/epis...
"Thank You For Saying My Name Correctly": Season One Farewell - Smart Girl
Don't call it a comeback. Sam and LT look back on a year of school visits, book chats, and pop-up events that turned a memoir into a community project, where first-gen stories, fandoms, and everyday a...
www.buzzsprout.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Doing this podcast with @smartgirl07.bsky.social and our guests lit up my 2025-- smart, breezy, funny convos about first gen everything, ethical admin & student practices, and (80s & 90s) culture. Cannot wait for season two fun!
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pique = 👀
January 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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My dad died on December 24th 2025. Tomorrow is my 39th birthday. This was not how I imagined the start of 2026.
I'm definitely experiencing grief in reality 😢😢😢
I'm definitely experiencing grief in reality 😢😢😢
January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
My dad died on December 24th 2025. Tomorrow is my 39th birthday. This was not how I imagined the start of 2026.
I'm definitely experiencing grief in reality 😢😢😢
I'm definitely experiencing grief in reality 😢😢😢
I did not imagine I'd be stepping into the new year without my dad still walking this earth. I still haven't fully had the chance to feel. He's been gone a week tomorrow and my heart will never be the same. But I have my sister's and many villages. I am glad he was our dad. Rest well 💙💙
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I did not imagine I'd be stepping into the new year without my dad still walking this earth. I still haven't fully had the chance to feel. He's been gone a week tomorrow and my heart will never be the same. But I have my sister's and many villages. I am glad he was our dad. Rest well 💙💙
I don't have the words. But I will forever be grateful to the man my father was.
Please, rest easy. 😢
Please, rest easy. 😢
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I don't have the words. But I will forever be grateful to the man my father was.
Please, rest easy. 😢
Please, rest easy. 😢
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Someone should take this case on and help this TA sue the shit out of this institution.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Someone should take this case on and help this TA sue the shit out of this institution.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.
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This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
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www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...?
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...?
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
And just like that: final grades for Fall 2025 have been uploaded! To say that this semester has been tougher than most (mostly due to aging parents with health problems 😕) its over! Now I just need to knock out two article reviews and I can take an actual break!
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
And just like that: final grades for Fall 2025 have been uploaded! To say that this semester has been tougher than most (mostly due to aging parents with health problems 😕) its over! Now I just need to knock out two article reviews and I can take an actual break!
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#ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited
Good morning, friends. Shine authentically, embracing imperfections! Be honest. Be real. Be messy. Be unapologetically YOU! And don’t worry about anyone who doesn’t accept you for being you. #Jaye’sMorningLight
Good morning, friends. Shine authentically, embracing imperfections! Be honest. Be real. Be messy. Be unapologetically YOU! And don’t worry about anyone who doesn’t accept you for being you. #Jaye’sMorningLight
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Oh they done gone too far. Keep the Combahee River Collective out your mouth is this is what you do!
Jacobin 🤜🤛 Rod Dreher
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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If I can just get all my students to turn in their last assignments before this cold (flu ??)seriously manifests, I might just be ok 🤦🏾♀️
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If I can just get all my students to turn in their last assignments before this cold (flu ??)seriously manifests, I might just be ok 🤦🏾♀️