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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Aug 25

🤩⭐I got my copy of this incredible volume edited by Jen Boum Make and Charly Verstraet w/ a foreword by Jessica Oublié - I'm thrilled to be in such great company!🔥🎉

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Aug 13

I can't wait to welcome Gaspard Njock & Annick Kamgang for the 6th Global Africas event hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Comics and the Art of Investigation. For more info: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/6th-gl...

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Jul 15

🤩Congratulations to Jennifer Boum Make on her new book "Decolonial Care" 🎉What an important and timely intervention - I can't wait to get my copy! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-pr...

Decolonial Care

Decolonial Care examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Thr...

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Jul 8

Full article: Y a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Un grand merci à Pedro Monaville pour ce compte-rendu nuancé de mon livre "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

Y-a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ?

Published in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · May 16

Exciting news! 1) Drawing (in) the Feminine was nominated for a Comics Studies Society award *and* an Eisner award and 2) the Edinburgh UP page is live for Graphic Narratives of Resistance!🤩🤩 Check it out: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-graphic...

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Apr 17

DEVELOPING: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four people hospitalized, local hospital says; FSU urges students to seek shelter.

Live Updates: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four hospitalized

Active shooter reported at Florida State

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Apr 17

For those in SoCal, I'll be talking about my book at Pomona College 💙 (4/25) and UCLA (4/28) 🩵💛 - I hope to see some of you there! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Apr 16

What a gift to spend two days with Felwine Sarr during the Afrotopias conference! ✨🌟

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you 🤩 and bonne lecture!

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Mar 31

I'm *so* looking forward to the 5th Global Africas event next week: the Afrotopias Conference featuring Felwine Sarr! For more info & the program: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Mar 26

I'm looking forward to participating in this workshop on comics & language classes at Pomona College and to the book talk I'll be giving at UCLA the following week!💙💛

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Mar 19

I can't wait to welcome director Thierno Souleymane Diallo to campus this weekend for a screening & Q&A of his documentary "The Cemetery of Cinema"!🤩

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Mar 11

Can't wait to discuss my book with everyone at UMass Lowell - un grand merci à Kristen Stern!

Flyer: Black Bandes Dessinées in Context

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 28

🤩 Yes!!! What a journey - and what wonderfully engaging and supportive conversations then and since with you and @katelynknox.bsky.social 💚

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 28

🤩 Thrilled to have Jagravi Dave profile my book on @brittlepaper.bsky.social - brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...

Combatting Racial Stereotypes Through Comics: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay

On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay is the first book in English to explore the work of Black francophone artists of bandes desinées and their responses to colonial l...

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 22

Can't wait for the Tout-Monde Foundation & Winthrop-King Institute Homo Sargassum symposium at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts & I'm honored to participate with Mora Beauchamp-Byrd & Henri Tauliaut to discuss comics, art, and the environment!🤩 www.tout-monde-foundation.org/copy-of-homo...

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 12

🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 5

The new issue of Imaginaries is up & its on bandes dessinées including Jessica Oublié's #tropiquestoxiques & Marcelino Truong's 40 Men and 12 Rifles h-france.net/imaginaries/

Global map from Tropiques toxiques on the history of kepone/chlordecone.

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 The final draft of the 5th Global Africas: Afrotopias Conference program is live: winthropking.fsu.edu/5th-global-a... I'm looking forward to what promises to be a rich engagement with and expansion on Felwine Sarr's #Afrotopia 🤩

Afrotopias Conferene Banner with Felwine Sarr

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Jan 17

My students' collaborative comments on the Sarr-Savoy report are clear-sighted & give me hope for whatever comes next!

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Jan 3

Finalizing my "Francophone Afrotopias" seminar syllabus & I can't wait to share Bodys Isek Kingelez's art (at the Chicago Art Institute now!) & screen Mati Diop's "Dahomey" in preparation for Felwine Sarr's keynote during the 5th Global Africas event, the "Afrotopias" conference! 🤩

Bodys Isek Kingelez - "Villa fantôme" (1996)

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The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social · Dec 23

Announcing our spring 2025 season! Review copies and course adoption requests: [email protected]
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The Ohio State University Press: Spring 2025 Catalog

The Spring 2025 catalog of the Ohio State University Press, with new titles in creative nonfiction, critical adoption studies, cultural studies, rhetoric and communication, and more.

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Jan 2

Tb to the 67th ASA meeting where I ran into Duncan Yoon & my incredible co-panelists Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Hilary Jones, & Ousseina Alidou (not pictured). Looking forward to more discussions following the "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histories &Thought" panel!

Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Michelle Bumatay, and Hilary Jones

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Dec 10

Looking forward to the 67th ASA & participating in the roundtable "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histoires and Thought" w/ Aliko Songolo, Naminata Diabate, Ousseina Alidou, & Hilary Jones! A très bientôt!
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67th Annual ASA Meeting: Global Africa (Chicago, Illinois | December 12-14, 2024)

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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Nov 27

Final proofs! I'm looking forward to sharing this with everyone!🤩

Title page: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power

Page from "Si la Mer Méditerranée pouvait parler..."

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