So grateful to all of the historians, artists, storytellers, and organizations for sharing their knowledge with us this week!

"poking fun at whiteness" undoes its potency. Joy and humor and anger are interlinked.

I read @kcarterjackson.bsky.social 's We Refuse and still think about it regularly. I love that she includes Joy in her consideration of forceful refusal.

So excited for your talk tonight!

"whiteness is consumed with inflicting violence"... "Why are white people so violent?"

"Racism isn't concerned with being caught on camera. It poses for it."

"marches are public mourning, not public policy." Carter Jackson challenges us to reconsider our veneration of non-violence.

Ogogor reminds us that enslavers weren't just men, and the panelists all speak to this process of identifying enslavers and the power they held.

I really appreciate how Davis showed us the range of enslaved experiences, and bringing people's voices to our view

I appreciate that they're sharing a range of enslaved experiences and laws that impacted the human experience.

She's talking about bringing in sensory experiences to her classroom in teaching students - cooking recipes from old cookbooks, bringing scents and movement into class

Really powerful is her discussion of her book and humanizing our understanding of enslaved people in the market - that they had the capacity to talk back and contradict, humanization of a human commodity.

It's really wonderful to hear a sort of state of the field talk targeted to a broader public audience.