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Airea D. Matthews

@aireadee.bsky.social

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Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Nov 15

What if we get off everything and just start reading?

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · Jun 18

This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings.

"Light refracts my name in
dialect only moths comprehend."

Altitude

Icarus, he advised, heed the warning: don’t fly

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · May 26

Laundromats are one of those few places where you can connect in real time with other human beings who may or may not have vastly different lives than your own.

Go to a laundromat and watch how you learn something new. I’ll die on this hill.

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Apr 27

Wherever you are at least it’s not inside this uber of undefinable funk. At least it’s not here.

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Feb 21

We can throw this whole month in the trash for all I care.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Feb 20

🙏🏽❤️

Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · Feb 19

Early poem today for 19th day of National Black History month. Confessions From Here by Airea D. Matthews.
@aireadee.bsky.social This poem is a brilliant case of you not knowing what will come next!
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Confessions From Here

I left our window open most nights

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Feb 4

It would be very nice if politicians cared about upholding democracy as much as they care about tweeting. But…here we are.

Afraid to break. Content to be broken.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Feb 1

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Feb 2

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Feb 2

You’re feeling dread for a reason. Search for the reason and activate.

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 30

UVA April 15th.

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Jhansi Ki Rani @keepmelearning.bsky.social · Jan 29

Democratic strategist Keith Edwards wrote this guide for federal employees—it has suggestions for how they can slow walk and even stop the Trump administration agenda from being implemented. Please share it!

keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...

Delay, Leak, Disobey: How to Counter Trump 2.0 from Within

Bureaucrats will guard the frontlines in the fight against American authoritarianism.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 25

The value of these platforms is in the algorithm. When buyers purchase, they purchase the speculative valuation of the algorithm—which is to say they buy your desires, thoughts, patterns & try to shape culture around what you think you wanted.

Lull you to sleep sated.

Rock you awake wanting.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 24

Another reading selection

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 24

I can’t pass up the opportunity to be a Virgo and say “I told yall.”

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 24

They can’t have your mind if you don’t let them. And if you don’t let them, they won’t have your thoughts to tarnish.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 21

It’s all spectacle. It’s all Bread and Circus.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 16

Unbearable beauty (without filter or editing). Sunset in Toubab Dialaw.

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 8

Watching America from Senegal. Superbly shitty episode today with the 4th beastie boy in a gold chain talking about freedom.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Jan 7

My message to Zuck

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Jan 5

New York at night. Dakar at sunrise.

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thank you, Brittany Rogers, for this generous interview in MQR.

sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2024/11/...

The Self as Subject: An Interview with Airea D. Matthews

When I learned that Airea’s new collection Bread and Circus was forthcoming, I immediately reached out and asked for the opportunity to discuss what I knew would be a masterful work. She said yes. …

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Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Dec 5

Just a reminder that meetings that could have been an email have life or death consequences.

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Nov 28

Absolutely gorgeous!!

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Nov 28

Imagine starting a battle rap and losing so completely, you call the police.

Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social · Nov 27

May I suggest the Kendrick Lamar model for the next four years?

-Anticipate foolishness
-Find an inside source
-Use your art form to drop 🔥 diss tracks proving you have intel
-Stage local spite concerts
-Get media coverage
-Go 🤫
-Book gigs
-Release a global collab, double down phenom