La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)

"In 1969, in Queens, snatching liberty seemed compelling. Some of us thrived; some of us died. All of us had a taste."
—Toni Morrison, foreword of Sula

the point was snatching shit, not necessarily winning. but doing.

"𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦."

The grotesque.

he's trying to be "relevant."
and that attempt, and discourse, is so tired af

"meritocracy"

𝒐𝒌, 𝑱𝒂𝒏

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Happy National Black Women History Month 🖤🤎

Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

"In 1821, New York changed its constitution to take away the right to vote from free Black citizens. Delegate Samuel Young justified the change with Enlightenment race theory, explaining, 'The minds of the blacks are not competent to vote.'”
—Michael Harriot, Black AF History...

Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

"A year after ratification, the 1790 Naturalization Act further cemented the supremacy of whiteness by limiting American citizenship to any “free white person . . . of good character.” And if you think the concept was limited to Southern states or slaves, nope."
—Michael Harriot, Black AF History...

it's Black Women's History Month tomorrow

Everything ICE says is a lie.

#MuseumsAreNotNeutral

If you’re willing to sacrifice trans lives to “save democracy,” then you don’t understand the first thing about democracy.

Books: left - Negroes With Guns by Robert F Williams right - Radio Free Dixie. Robert F Williams and the Roots of Black Power by Timothy Tyson

101 years ago today, a man was born whose name wasn't even a whisper when I grew up.

Feb 26, 1925, Robert F William was born in Monroe, NC.

Williams didnt believe in nonviolence. He was so feared to the point that the NAACP suspended him, & the FBI hunted him internationally.

He passed in 1996

I feel so bad for my colleagues. one was shaking. she was upaet & afraid of losing her job if she reacted.

it's so horrible.

correction-- 𝘩𝘰𝘸 '𝘸𝘦' 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘱. ✨

the racists seem to get extra stupid & loud during BHM.

witnessed Black colleagues get harassed & called the N word.
considering how 'we' can hold each up.
we're all we've got.

"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."
—Gwendolyn Brooks

Thankfully I am undeterred. Death is the only certainty. Everything else can change.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

That’s kind of you! This is a resource hub for ways to help Minnesota. Right now many people are having a hard time paying their rent (haven’t been able to work because of ICE raids). www.standwithminnesota.com

It’s disorienting how fast the country moved on. In Minnesota, families are still living with raids, detentions, and federal force in their neighborhoods. The cameras left. The headlines faded. The fear didn’t.

Before In the Wake, there was Monstrous Intimacies. A major work.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Me signing books at an event at the University of Chicago, hosted by the Office of Military-Affiliated Communities, which purchased 200 copies of the book and gave them to attendees, students, and veterans in Cook County Jail, and Veterans Treatment Courts. This was the highlight!

To sum up, it takes time to see the “impact” of a scholarly book. Keep grinding. Keep writing. Pay it forward: write book reviews, leave Amazon reviews, email authors, invite them to talk with your students, cite your sources. And most authors would be delighted to know that anyone reads our books!

#Lit #BHM

"We know Black history in our city didn't begin a century ago, when it was first celebrated. As long as New York has been a city, as long as there have been New Yorkers, there has been Black history."
—NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

"𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬"

𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩! ✨

“She will outlive everything you know.”

J. Jennifer Espinoza, from her poem “The Moon is Trans”

I’m being very intentional with where I invest my time and energy. Today was a fantastic day, for example, because I got to spend most of it in critical dialogue and community with brilliant Black women scholars working across multiple fields of expertise spanning history, law and STEM..

sshhhh!