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Christopher Tounsel

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Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP) UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 4h

Up the sky in silence holy
Comes the young moon slowly, slowly,
Softly with her light divine,
Filling, like a cup with wine.

Elizabeth Chase Allen
Born October 9, 1832

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 1d

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Vittorio Alfieri
Died October 8, 1803

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Feared Sudanese Warlord Is Convicted of War Crimes

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 2d

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw.

Edgar Allan Poe
Died October 7, 1849

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 3d

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Herbert M. Shelton
Born October 6, 1895

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 6d

Our son just screamed, "P is for Pteranodon!"

I love that kid 😊

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 6d

“Poets are born, not made.” That’s about the way it is with punters.

John Heisman
Died October 3, 1936

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 7d

Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

August Wilson
Died October 2, 2005

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 8d

Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Jimmy Carter
Born October 1, 1924

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 9d

When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley, Jr.
Born September 30, 1861

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 10d

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

Dianne Feinstein
Died September 29, 2023

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 13d

The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness. In the juvenescence of the year
Came Christ the tiger.

T.S. Eliot
Born September 26, 1888

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 13d

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76

Quintard Taylor Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 14d

Growing up among the poor, I and everyone in our community were taught mainly through the church that the poor were God’s chosen people.

bell hooks
Born September 25, 1952

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 15d

God is on the side of freedom; and any cause that has God on its side, I care not how much it may be trampled upon, how much it may be trailed in the dust, is sure to triumph.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Born September 24, 1825

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 16d

Rise up to be born with me, my brother.

Pablo Neruda
Died September 23, 1973

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 17d

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Died September 21, 1860

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 20d

God giveth speech to all, song to the few.

Walter C. Smith
Died September 19, 1908

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 21d

"The world of women’s basketball has been one of the few spaces where the bright lights consistently shine on Black women and girls," writes Dr. Timeka Tounsel @timekatounsel-phd.bsky.social in her latest article @forbes.com.

www.forbes.com/sites/timeka...

How Black Women Hoopers Are Building Mega Brands Beyond The Court

WNBA and NCAA stars like Angel Reese and Flau’jae Johnson are redefining athlete entrepreneurship and reshaping the media landscape for Black women.

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to share that the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women's History is out! And humbled to see my article “Women in South Sudan” included among entries written by so many African Studies scholars that I look up to 🙏🏿

Link: oxfordre.com/africanhisto...

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 23d

The volcano which the colonists had long ignored, pretending it did not exist, was now in full eruption. Masses of slaves poured down from the hills, emerging from the plantations as though they had been spewed up from a crater.

Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Born September 16, 1916

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 24d

When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

Agatha Christie
Born September 15, 1890

Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 25d

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to announce our first session of the Global Africa Transcontinental Seminar series! 📚

When: Oct 2, 8–9:30 am (PST)
Where: Zoom
Registration: washington.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Sponsors: UW African Studies Program, UCAD Department of History, and SciencesPo African Program

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 27d

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charles Dudley Warner
Born September 12, 1829