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Dr. Korey Tillman | Ṣàngówálé

@k-till.bsky.social

Asst Prof. of Crim and African Studies @Northeastern. Abolitionist. Scholar of Policing, Antiblackness, & Empire. Yoruba. ΑΦΑ. #SocAF #BlackSky

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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

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✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

31.08.2025 19:34 — 👍 82    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0
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She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.

01.09.2025 03:00 — 👍 807    🔁 395    💬 52    📌 56

"I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a bitch a poison apple yet." is an all time bar

31.08.2025 14:43 — 👍 1048    🔁 201    💬 4    📌 3

Lmao

31.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Undisiciplined Workshop Registration — A Gathering Together: Literary Journal

For grad students in Black Studies

www.agatheringtogether.com/undiscipline...

29.08.2025 02:04 — 👍 30    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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writing residency.
kingston.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

27.08.2025 02:02 — 👍 6    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

My article, "Stops: How Race, Space, and Policing Shapes Who is Human and Who is Not” is published! I theorize "stops" as moments when the category of human is contested and reified through racialized policing. Precursor to my "Punitive Inertia" article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

01.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, I haven't! Let me go watch it! Thank you for the suggestion. I'll keep you posted. What is it about?

21.05.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much, Alicia! I appreciate you! ❤️

20.05.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

doi.org/10.1093/socp... - the article is open access now! I want to thank Eric Piza and Amy Lewontin for helping to make this happen!

19.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Policing shapes who is human and who is not. Check it out

19.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm grateful for the feature!

19.05.2025 16:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Policing is about more than law enforcement, researcher says, it’s about who gets to be human Northeastern’s Korey Tillman aims to redefine how people think about policing and its impact on Black motion.

My work was featured in Northeastern Global New - "Policing is about more than law enforcement, researcher says, it’s about who gets to be human"
news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/02/p...

I'm thankful for the feature! @nusccj.bsky.social

07.05.2025 20:11 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Image of book cover with a painterly image of a classroom with one student in the back, all green and blue colors. “Slow Violence” in large letters with subtitle “Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom” across the top and “Ranita Ray” at the bottom.

Image of book cover with a painterly image of a classroom with one student in the back, all green and blue colors. “Slow Violence” in large letters with subtitle “Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom” across the top and “Ranita Ray” at the bottom.

The brilliant @ranitaray1.bsky.social has a new book out. Her first informed my own work so much, and I can’t wait to read this one! Preorder: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

24.04.2025 14:04 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

This is beautiful!

25.04.2025 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm just honored and humbled by this assessment. And the @Pitzer students were great! Shout-out to having a win jar. Just walked away with a new phrase lol

24.04.2025 21:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, fam!

24.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂

24.04.2025 16:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

sacrificing accountability. The level of student engagement in the session I observed was extraordinary. But more than that, it was honest. Students did not
perform for Dr. Tillman—they thought with him. That is a rarer achievement than it should be."

24.04.2025 04:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

His classroom is at once a
seminar, a workshop, and a brave space for examining the world around us. It prepares students not for the world as it is, but for the world as it must be made. His pedagogy is iterative without being imprecise, rigorous without being rigid, collaborative without

24.04.2025 04:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"What Dr. Tillman offers in Black Abolition Studies is not simply a content-rich
syllabus or a high-performing classroom. He offers a different kind of university experience—one that insists on the practice of freedom.

24.04.2025 04:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Here is a quick snippet. My observer is tremendously generous and an amazing writer.

24.04.2025 04:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I just read a statement from a teaching observation of my class that made me get teary-eyed 🙏🏿

23.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for the invite bro, it was an honor!!

23.04.2025 20:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Truly appreciating meeting & conversing w/ dope scholars this academic yr before sabbatical. Thank you again @k-till.bsky.social @dmmurphy.bsky.social for our convos, laughter, & pushing students @ Pitzer to think through complex matters & showcasing young scholars changing things in sociology.

21.04.2025 23:38 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

You are literally the GOAT! Thank you for putting us on and allowing the voices of our communities and our scholarship to be heard!

23.04.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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@ranitaray1.bsky.social dropped some heat! Make sure you get your copy! The MacArthur genius, Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home called it "A beautiful and aching book...will change how you think about education."

I'm excited to get my copy. It's going to the top of my list!

23.04.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Go see Sinners!

18.04.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I had my students draw an abolitionist world on the board in Feb. One student added me into the world. Today, that same student added that drawing to the end of their final presentation. I'm weak! I love my students! Look at my profile pic and it will make sense lol

16.04.2025 02:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0