christopher r. rogers
@justmaybechris.bsky.social
i write my shit, then shut up, study, and make community. | We Win From Within, LLC.
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NEW! FREE REPORT DOWNLOAD! Friends of the Tanner House Presents: Making the Tanner House Dream Come True [print version coming soon…] | A reflective report on our 2024-25 neighborhood programming activities | ACCESS: savethetannerhouse.org/forlovetothr...
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. @makcapitalism.bsky.social "Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory w/ Christopher R.( @justmaybechris.bsky.social )Rogers | Philadelphia Portal Ep. 2" Sterling( @lbsterlingjo.bsky.social )Johnson, Jared( @jaybeware.bsky.social )Ware #makcapitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfLh...
Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory with Christopher R. Rogers | Philadelphia Portal Ep. 2
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
. @makcapitalism.bsky.social "Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory w/ Christopher R.( @justmaybechris.bsky.social )Rogers | Philadelphia Portal Ep. 2" Sterling( @lbsterlingjo.bsky.social )Johnson, Jared( @jaybeware.bsky.social )Ware #makcapitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfLh...
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Was closing tabs & saw this para I so admire, written by @justmaybechris.bsky.social in our new article - purposefully breaking academic form & the 4th wall, inviting in, trusting, validating, organizing...& probably answering a reviewer's Q too. Flowers, friend!
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October 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Was closing tabs & saw this para I so admire, written by @justmaybechris.bsky.social in our new article - purposefully breaking academic form & the 4th wall, inviting in, trusting, validating, organizing...& probably answering a reviewer's Q too. Flowers, friend!
citejournal.org/volume-25/is...
citejournal.org/volume-25/is...
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Friday at 10 AM ET @justmaybechris.bsky.social joins the Philadelphia Portal (a Philly based media project that @makcapitalism.bsky.social is a part of & currently streams on the MAKC YT channel)
We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory
www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...
We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory
www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Friday at 10 AM ET @justmaybechris.bsky.social joins the Philadelphia Portal (a Philly based media project that @makcapitalism.bsky.social is a part of & currently streams on the MAKC YT channel)
We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory
www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...
We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory
www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...
NEW! FREE REPORT DOWNLOAD! Friends of the Tanner House Presents: Making the Tanner House Dream Come True [print version coming soon…] | A reflective report on our 2024-25 neighborhood programming activities | ACCESS: savethetannerhouse.org/forlovetothr...
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
NEW! FREE REPORT DOWNLOAD! Friends of the Tanner House Presents: Making the Tanner House Dream Come True [print version coming soon…] | A reflective report on our 2024-25 neighborhood programming activities | ACCESS: savethetannerhouse.org/forlovetothr...
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The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education by Drs. @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and me: citejournal.org/volume-25/is...
The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education – CITE Journal
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October 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education by Drs. @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and me: citejournal.org/volume-25/is...
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Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning by Drs. me, Cherise McBride, and @justmaybechris.bsky.social (also, RIP the bird app & the way we used to connect via SM for this one) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning
This article provides a comparative case study of two connected learning experiences in teacher education that vary in scope, participants, time, and design to consider the questions: 1) What chara...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Exploring the edges of collegiality: a cross-case analysis toward humanizing teachers’ connected learning by Drs. me, Cherise McBride, and @justmaybechris.bsky.social (also, RIP the bird app & the way we used to connect via SM for this one) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
COMMENTS: Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Thankful Poor. (9/29/2025)
READ: medium.com/@damayor/may...
READ: medium.com/@damayor/may...
may god bless the thankful poor | Friends of the Tanner House x Swann Auction Galleries
Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry…
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September 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
COMMENTS: Our upcoming art auction fundraiser in partnership with RUSH Arts & Swann Galleries borrows ancestral inspiration and sustenance from Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Thankful Poor. (9/29/2025)
READ: medium.com/@damayor/may...
READ: medium.com/@damayor/may...
NEW! Our people fought to make space for all our children to learn in-depth about the Black historical struggle through their public education. This effort is a community driven initiative and reminder that we do this work on behalf of them. Join us online October 18. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
NEW! Our people fought to make space for all our children to learn in-depth about the Black historical struggle through their public education. This effort is a community driven initiative and reminder that we do this work on behalf of them. Join us online October 18. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🙏🏾. Grateful to have been invited into conversation at AAMP next Saturday around one of my favorite films of all time Spook Who Sat By The Door. Come through and hear the stories of how many people wished, sacrificed, and risked to give us this classic.
September 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
🙏🏾. Grateful to have been invited into conversation at AAMP next Saturday around one of my favorite films of all time Spook Who Sat By The Door. Come through and hear the stories of how many people wished, sacrificed, and risked to give us this classic.
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"Serving as an art school w/ studios, art residency, library, open kitchen, + garden simultaneously, Sertão Negro is more than an institution—it is a holistic school rooted in Black cultural traditions + the spirit of the quilombo, where art, food, housing, + land are the grounds for communal life"
Storefront for Art and Architecture
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September 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Serving as an art school w/ studios, art residency, library, open kitchen, + garden simultaneously, Sertão Negro is more than an institution—it is a holistic school rooted in Black cultural traditions + the spirit of the quilombo, where art, food, housing, + land are the grounds for communal life"
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📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
The (Im)Possibilities of “Creating Digital Living Rooms”: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education – CITE Journal
citejournal.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
😎. FUNDRAISER PREVIEW EDITIONS ARE HERE! GET YOURS! DEBUT: AUGUST 22 at the FALL ABOLITION SCHOOL MIXER. See slide for details.
DONATE NOW VIA GOFUNDME. gofund.me/622d53ae
DONATE NOW VIA GOFUNDME. gofund.me/622d53ae
August 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
😎. FUNDRAISER PREVIEW EDITIONS ARE HERE! GET YOURS! DEBUT: AUGUST 22 at the FALL ABOLITION SCHOOL MIXER. See slide for details.
DONATE NOW VIA GOFUNDME. gofund.me/622d53ae
DONATE NOW VIA GOFUNDME. gofund.me/622d53ae
“We know that [Alexander’s] legacy stands for civil rights,” Rogers said. “It stands for justice, it stands for equity, it stands for democracy, it stands for knowledge. And so, if they are invested in those things, it's definitely surprising to see them sell out...” www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
Sadie T.M. Alexander, caught in the crossfire of a war to control America’s past | Will Bunch
Penn's law school's pause of a scholarship honoring a pioneering Black woman highlights a campaign to erase America's history.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“We know that [Alexander’s] legacy stands for civil rights,” Rogers said. “It stands for justice, it stands for equity, it stands for democracy, it stands for knowledge. And so, if they are invested in those things, it's definitely surprising to see them sell out...” www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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Much of the analysis of crime data is directed to opponents of abolition.
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
Crime Data: Three Things for Abolitionists to Consider — Abolition Journal | A Project of the W.E.B. Du Bois School for Abolition & Reconstruction
Abolition Journal is the publication platform of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. We study the world to change it.
abolitionjournal.com
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Much of the analysis of crime data is directed to opponents of abolition.
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing.
abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...
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Witchwords. This is what W.E.B. Du Bois called discourse or phrases used to discredit or repress political critiques or organizing.
As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare.
jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a...
As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare.
jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of a Red Scare
As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.
jewishcurrents.org
August 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Witchwords. This is what W.E.B. Du Bois called discourse or phrases used to discredit or repress political critiques or organizing.
As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare.
jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a...
As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare.
jewishcurrents.org/anatomy-of-a...
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Dionne Brand is one our greatest literary thinkers, and this profile of her is a great read.
jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-...
jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-...
The Measure of the World
By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.
jewishcurrents.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Dionne Brand is one our greatest literary thinkers, and this profile of her is a great read.
jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-...
jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-...
FRESHLY PRESSED. I have new work out. Columns: Black Youth Futures: Experimental Medicine: A Winter Break Reflection on "Me-First" Language Arts
Author(s): Christopher R. Rogers
Source: English Journal, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2025, p. 82-85
DOI: lnkd.in/eNecy_et
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Author(s): Christopher R. Rogers
Source: English Journal, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2025, p. 82-85
DOI: lnkd.in/eNecy_et
DM me for link.
July 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
FRESHLY PRESSED. I have new work out. Columns: Black Youth Futures: Experimental Medicine: A Winter Break Reflection on "Me-First" Language Arts
Author(s): Christopher R. Rogers
Source: English Journal, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2025, p. 82-85
DOI: lnkd.in/eNecy_et
DM me for link.
Author(s): Christopher R. Rogers
Source: English Journal, Volume 114, Issue 5, May 2025, p. 82-85
DOI: lnkd.in/eNecy_et
DM me for link.
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I’m throwing a party w one of my fav people @justmaybechris.bsky.social in a Safer Movements Collective x Chester Gifted Program collab!!!
join us Friday, August 1st for MAMAS COOKOUT 👩🏽🍳 there will be abolition trivia! a care corner! a kids space by the Philly Childcare Collective! prizes! dancing!
join us Friday, August 1st for MAMAS COOKOUT 👩🏽🍳 there will be abolition trivia! a care corner! a kids space by the Philly Childcare Collective! prizes! dancing!
July 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I’m throwing a party w one of my fav people @justmaybechris.bsky.social in a Safer Movements Collective x Chester Gifted Program collab!!!
join us Friday, August 1st for MAMAS COOKOUT 👩🏽🍳 there will be abolition trivia! a care corner! a kids space by the Philly Childcare Collective! prizes! dancing!
join us Friday, August 1st for MAMAS COOKOUT 👩🏽🍳 there will be abolition trivia! a care corner! a kids space by the Philly Childcare Collective! prizes! dancing!
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There’s a lot of mutual aid work being done to combat the errors of our government. I spent an afternoon with the Philly Abortion Doula to learn what she’s focusing on rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/16/p...
Philly Abortion Doula Provides Cooking, Clinics, and Child Care to Pregnant Patients
“Tell me what you need, and I’ll tell you what we can do,” the doula says.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There’s a lot of mutual aid work being done to combat the errors of our government. I spent an afternoon with the Philly Abortion Doula to learn what she’s focusing on rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/16/p...
“We’d want to know what in the hell you say?”
July 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“We’d want to know what in the hell you say?”
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“Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few. Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests.”– June Jordan
June 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few. Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests.”– June Jordan
💪🏾 Good News today. My first RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE received seed funding today. “Fugitive Poetry Pedagogies for the People” coming soon. Am opportunity to build up Black Philadelphia literary lesson plans and support a generation of local Black poets and writers in the process.
June 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
💪🏾 Good News today. My first RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE received seed funding today. “Fugitive Poetry Pedagogies for the People” coming soon. Am opportunity to build up Black Philadelphia literary lesson plans and support a generation of local Black poets and writers in the process.