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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD

@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social

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Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY• PhDJ• order my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/ www.taoleighgoffe.com Harvard Kennedy School fellow

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · Feb 3

I’m SUNDAY NEW YORK TIMES official!! My book #DarkLaboratory. A thrill to be read and understood. Feels like seeing my name in lights. Ran to the news stand with Dragon Baby 🩵🐲 to buy some hard copies yesterday.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 3h

Join us on Govenors Island. My Lab is hosting a Studio Visit with Artist @cecilestudio.bsky.social RSVP to get your spot! Ecuadorian ecologies meets Chinese calligraphy.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 3h

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 3h

Be my colleague in NYC! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu Women and Gender Studies.

Assistant Professor with a desired focus on Black reproductive rights, maternal care and midwifery / doulas / sexuality

Applications due by November 15.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social · 2d

Since Trump’s EO, my family has received multiple death threats. This past weekend, we were doxxed (we received a threatening email with our home address). We are moving to a safer location.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 5d

Teaching has been such a joy this semester @huntercollege.bsky.social NYC, our living island laboratory. 💜

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 14d

So many memoirs on mothers… for my feminist memoir class that will be a whole unit.

What are your favorites?

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 5d

We are at the point where ICE's gestapo raids -- whole buildings being cleared and residents hauled off in the middle of the night, no questions asked -- are being reported in People magazine.

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@makeradicalcare @radical-care.bsky.social · 7d

On the penultimate day of September I finished my first reading of Dark Laboratory by @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social … I will literally have to write an entire essay in homage (and to tally all the synchronicities I found…). Go read it!!!

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 7d

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s play ball! #YankeeStadium

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 12d

Solange on IG: “We would like to play a small part in creating free access to the expansive range of critical thought and expression by these great minds.”

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Saint Heron Community Library; a growing media center dedicated to students, practicing artists and designers, musicians and general literature enthusiasts.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 12d

We talked about CUNY!

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General Strike Detroit/Downriver @genstrikedetroit.bsky.social · 12d

You taught us
the state cannot kill the people’s dream,
that exile blooms into legacy,
and even in death
the fight lives on, in us, with you, forever.

Power to the people. ✊🏾
#Assatashakur Rest in Power

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 12d

#NightSchool great insights by my “African-Caribbean Literature” students @huntercollege.bsky.social on the life of #AssataShakur, the question of freedom, and refuge in Cuba - RIP 🕊️

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 14d

First day of the @asalh-bhm.bsky.social annual meeting!

Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all African American studies books with code ASALH25 at checkout!
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#ASALH25 #ASALH2025 #BlackHistory

Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Atlanta, GA. Sept 24-28, 2025. Get 50% off our books! Use promo code: ASALH25. Offer expires October 3, 2025

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 14d

The best of us are comedians lol

Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! TBR

Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 14d

Nothing makes me a better Professor than remaining a student.

I love to enroll in classes, partly to remember the vulnerability of surrendering to the porous process of learning.

What post-PhD coursework have you enjoyed?

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 14d

So many memoirs on mothers… for my feminist memoir class that will be a whole unit.

What are your favorites?

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 15d

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 15d

Enter the Dragon Baby!! Happy 1st birthday to my baby. Bruce Lee-themed party.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16d

These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask

- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16d

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production.

Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization.

David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

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