Jessica Marie Johnson
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Jessica Marie Johnson
@jessicamariejohnson.com
writer, historian of slavery. books: Wicked Flesh (Penn Press, 2020); Computational Humanities (UMinn, 2024). director at @lifexcode.bsky.social. Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
Keywords in Practice: K4BL Witnessing Black Life & Community

Sponsored by UVA's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, in association with the Scholars' Lab, and the Departments of English; Africana Studies; History; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
April 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New Orleans Book Fest this weekend: "Imani Perry joins Freddi Williams Evans, Annette Gordon-Reed and Jessica Marie Johnson in a conversation about the complexities of Black women’s lives in the Atlantic World."      bookfest.tulane.edu/schedule/bla...
March 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If music is therapy, who’s your therapist?
February 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
January 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM

The Outsider Preservation Initiative is offering grants for supporting descendant community members who seek ways to preserve Black placemaking, freedom-seeking, migration, and placekeeping heritage through creative storytelling!!!! Apply!
December 18, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Honored to join the authors, novelists, historians, poets, and writers at @NOLABookFest on March 27-29. Check out the excellent author lineup and join me at this free public event!
#NOLABookFest
bookfest.tulane.edu/register
November 23, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Spending time with the baddies of Women With a Vision tomorrow at American Studies Association in Baltimore. It is always time to engage in Black Study with one of the oldest Black-led reproductive justice collective in the South.
November 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM