Dr. Renée M Byrd
blacklandpoetics.bsky.social
Dr. Renée M Byrd
@blacklandpoetics.bsky.social
I ask questions about Black & abolition ecologies, plants as co-conspirators, healing State and interpersonal violence and more recently how Black feminist art opens portals to liberation.

Founder of Earthseed Laboratories.
www.earthseedlabs.com
What is with all these videos on instagram with people removing barnacles and stuff from animals? Have you see this? I’m feelin some kinda way. A lot of them are clearly AI. But why are they all over my instagram now?
February 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Ok I know there are more profound things to say about the Super Bowl 1/2 t show & people are saying those things, but I keep thinking about Kendrick Lamar’s jeans. They reminded me of my jeans in high school and they were damn sexy. Obviously he was making more profound points but damn those jeans
February 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
genuinely confused. Mildred Garcia, CSU Chancellor, announced a new AI initiative. Our universities are gonna provide the workforce to “drive California’s future AI-driven economy.” We are gonna leverage AI for “impactful solutions” to climate change. What hellscape are we building? What? Why? What?
February 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Okay can we stop using ‘felon’ as some insult against Trump? It seems to me that we risk reproducing the disposability of Black and brown folks. It doesn’t stick to him.
January 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Giving this space a shot. Maybe this is my chance to give up self-censoring and be brutally honest. I’m gonna keep it real but always aim for being unintelligible to empire.
January 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM