Theodore Foster

The cover image for the book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C. Anderson

The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition (@williamcson.bsky.social): www.akpress.org/nationonnoma...

“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace,/ is getting used to harm.”
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On

My Mother Steeled Me with Black History The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute served as a critical training ground in my youth leading me to question what makes Alabama history, Black history in the 5th grade.

“Life is not everlasting and neither is history. To make what we do in this life meaningful one must have a critical understanding of Black history.” open.substack.com/pub/civilrig...

“I can’t complain” -a Black proverb

‘They killed him inside’: man who was son’s caretaker detained by ICE and denied final goodbye Wael Tarabishi, who has a lifelong muscle disorder, died after Maher, his father and primary caretaker, was detained

“The Guardian once again asked ICE why the request was denied, but did not receive a reply.

ICE has repeatedly claimed Maher is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An Epitaph for Civil Rights & Black Studies Why I write, research and teach about the civil rights movement from a Black studies perspective.

Starting a substack I hope makes this space a more active and generative place for my writing practice & sharing ideas in a process more publicly. civilrightsepitaph.substack.com/p/an-epitaph...

“Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” -Dostoyevsky

Chelsea Mikael Frazier - Department of English, Cornell University Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 11/05/2025 · 1h 9m

Chelsea Mikael Frazier on the podcast talking about ecology, Black feminism, and Black Studies research. Amazing convo, here or other streams:

Tamara T. Butler - Executive Director, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 11/07/2025 · 51m

Ashley hosts Tamara T. Butler to talk about memory work, history, and making Black cultural education. Here or at your preferred stream:

My mom came to this work as a parent of a child with Down Syndrome and thru Alice Wong & others moved away from the inclusion/integration model and goal of the movement for disability justice and toward a more radical critique of what it means to be human & thus differently abled.

My mother recently passed and she too was deeply involved in disability rights, justice & activism communities across the U.S. so Alice Wing’s passing compounds that grief & amplifies their ancestral presence in our struggles today.

Learning of the passing of Alice Wong this morning hit hard. She was such a fierce thinker and activist pushing the disability justice movement forward. May she rest in power as the oracle of an ancestor she claimed, axe.

Nobody is discussing the assassination attempt on George Wallace in 1972 but some mainstream news outlets are comparing that man to Malcolm X which says everything you need to know about the real-time revisionism and whitewashing taking place right now.

“If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?” -Black proverb

Welcome! I’m not trying too hard but also want a virtual space beyond Meta/X to exchange and learn and be.

Two tracks I can meditate to on repeat: “Jacob and the Stone” x Emile Mosseri & “Hunting Bears” x Radiohead

So much is lost when we use desegregation OR integration to frame & know what happened as one iteration of legalized white supremacy crumbled and a new one emerged.

Folx turn to AI for what we used to turn to a thesaurus for and we are worse off for it…well those who overvalue that “tool” for not thinking

Writing (and grading) my way out today

It’s wild that Biden is the FIRST U.S. president to travel to Angola, ever, smh.

I’m excited to be writing again in one and soon to be two writing groups bc I’ve got too much 🔥🔥🔥 that’s been on the stove too long and needs publishing for the job (academia) but also towards writing for a critical Black education for liberation.

I hope this can be a different place for that and a lot more as the empire crumbles and my late 30s progress on this second run in small town Louisiana after my second 21 month run in Chicago imploded over the past couple of yrs.

Slowly checking in on this app and finding a community bc I really did get a lot out of Twitter community, esp while in grad school and starting off on the TT in Louisiana. Beyond the job ish & academia I also appreciated the political education of many activists, artists, writers, journalists, etc.

Same, the versions of me archived on that platform are many, all past now.

Not happy about leaving the hellscape platform but enough was enough. Where my ppls at?!?