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Laurian Bowles PhD
@drlaurian.bsky.social
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Black femme anthropologist | Author: HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra http://bit.ly/42KE9Dv, get 30% off w/ code PENN-LBOWLES30 or CSPENN30
she/her/dr | vann professor of racial justice | relationship anarchist | diaspora daughter|
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Thank you to everyone who showed up, asked brilliant questions, and made the evening one to remember. We sold out of copies📚

#BookLaunch #Headstrong #NewBeginnings #Blackfeminist #ethnography
Copy of the books, Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness and Modernity in Accra, with an close on the cover which features the portrait of a dark skinned Black woman with red, yellow, blue colors abstractly framing her face with the title of the book, Headstrong, written vertically down the cover. Art by Maku Azu. Book by Laurian R Bowles. Books are sitting on a table with a white table cloth.
October 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I just solved Black Crossword's puzzle "Tuesday, August 26, 2025" in 46s. Can you beat my time? Visit blackcrossword.com to play. crosshare.org/crosswords/Q...
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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They really did publish this opinion.
July 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A hilltop view from Ho, Volta Region #visitvoltaexperienceGhana
June 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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John Guillory's definition of close reading feels substantive.

Excerpt from a review/reflection, "The Invention of Close Reading" by Dan Sinykin. June 2025 issue @thenation.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Words written in black on a white background, that read "the surest failure is the unattempted walk"
April 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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My colleague @hngreen.bsky.social reading from her new book, Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War www.fordhampress.com/978153150852...
There women sitting on a stage with a glass door in the background
March 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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#Headstrong proofs returned again

I hope I'll see the cover mock up soon!
Title page of a book, black writing on white background that reads: Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness and Modernity in Accra, by Laurian R. Bowles
March 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Basquiat & Banksy, in conversation #HirshornMuseum
Two paintings, one by Banksy, the other by Basquiat, hanging in an gallery space with a docent standing in the corner
March 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The vibe to stay on
Poster of a man holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Where you Can't Work"
March 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The #Blacksonian is beautiful
March 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Champion nails
Brown hand holding steering wheel. Wifh green and gold painted nails
February 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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From Daniel Littlefield's Rice and Slavery: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina
Screenshot from page 1 of Daniel Littlefield's Rice and Slavery. Black typefast on white background
January 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Uber, the 😎
Uber advertising that says, We're turning their F into W. If your teen failed their driver's test, they get 1 month of free rides. Black background and white letters.
January 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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#Caturday cuddles.
Two cats sitting closely together on a red couch. One tabby is orange and the other is black. They are sitting on a blue and white blanket
January 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Friends, what flag is that on the left?
December 21, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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By Nikki Giovanni
A poem by Nikki Giovanni called, When I Die. Written in black letters on a white background. When i die I hope no one who ever hurt me cries And if they cry i hope their eyes fall out and a million maggots that made up their brains crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh that covered the evil that passed odd as the person that u probably tried to love
December 11, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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From rh. Sin
A poem from a book by rh.sin that says, she's a quiet wild Gentle sort of rough Something divine But rarely understood Always to be adored And respected
December 1, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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If you don't already know, go see #TheStringQueens. Awesome performance that ranged from classical chamber music to MJ and 90s neo-soul. #blumenthalarts #Blacksky
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Candlelit auditorium. Three Black women are wearing red dresses; each holding instruments. The woman on the left is holding and playing a violin, the woman cenfer, the cello, and the woman on the right, the viola. They are a string trio known as, The String Queens
November 30, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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I made it
#IMXpilates
Pilates reformer in a studio with brown wooden floors and white walls
November 29, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Is she serious?!

"I have a brown son" is like, I can't be racist, my best friend is Black..

Read more at: www.charlotteobserver.com/living/relig...
November 27, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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The #AAA2024Tampa Distinguished Lecture is the Dr. Johnnetta B Cole
November 23, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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#AAA2024Tampa conversation with Marvin Dunn, author of "Black Miami in the Twentieth Century and The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence" & producer of documentaries focusing on Black history. Dunn is also a community activist, founding the Miami Center for Racial Justice.
Conference room with the rear of people's heads with Marvin Dunn facing the camera.
November 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Thanks, kid
A bouquet or flowers, orange and dark pink roses with baby's breath and wild flower accents
November 21, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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So happy that my colleagues at #AAA2024Tampa are sharing their final report on the policy about the ethics and appropriate treatment of human remains
"The Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains" panel and report out
November 20, 2024 at 11:24 PM