Sakénya McDonald, PhD

He volunteers as tribute.

This 👇🏾

Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Request denied.

Fact.

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According to the New York Times, roughly 0.5% of recorded history over the past 3,500 years is about women. That's only 17.5 years.

This (and many other issues) is why I spend every day speaking up and out for Black women. It's why I fight for us to tell our stories.

I want more folks to join me.

Brilliant scholarship, congrats!

This is hot.

They colonized her people's land. The bill was breaking a treaty. Decorum does not apply here.

But colonizers gonna colonize. Every time.

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"If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable" - June Jordan

👇🏿!!!

Refusal. Withdrawal. Assertion.

This IS the movement.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"I have encountered barriers to the exercise of honest counsel. These repeated obstacles of procedural circumvention, particularly insidious to those of us who have advocated for more democratic and inclusive knowledge systems, represent not just personal frustration, but institutional regression"

"Contemporary mammies should be completely committed to their jobs" - P. Hill Collins

In the workplace, though, Black women are (daily) confronted with unrealistic expectations and coded messages reminding them they are expendable.

Make it, make sense.

#iconoclast
#feministphilosophy

And we ALL saw what our Mayor is capable of so...move on up from 'round us 🎯

👇🏿 stop. read.

That moment when you realize your gifts are too big to fit in the life-sized container you are painfully trying to squeeze into.

When it becomes clear that that your function is to do that ONE thing.

Better.

I feel like Michael Jordan, circa 1990.

#blackfeminist
#iconoclast

"I can no longer justify my presence in academia, for example, with words that exist in the English language.

The moment I find some symbol of my presence in the rarefied halls of elite institutions, it gets stolen, co-opted, filled with negative meaning". - Patricia Williams

Call of panels: African Perspectives on Global Transformations (Basel, 26-28.08.2026) Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Base...

CfP
Basel, 26-28.08.2026

Joint conference of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and the Association for African Studies in Germany e.V. (VAD) hosted by the ZASB Research Network Africa at the University of Basel.

www.sagw.ch/africa/aktue...

‪Liette Gidlow‬ ‪@profgidlow.bsky.social‬

@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️

See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information.

Please repost.

“The phrase “theory of change” has become popular in recent years, as in “what’s your theory of change?” Mine is that categories are leaky and anomalies abound. That change happens in complex, sometimes unpredictable ways, that it often unfolds with slow and indirect consequences, and that what ends up in the centres of power often begins in the margins and shadows. That stories have profound power and changing the story is often the beginning of changing the world.” Rebecca Solnit

Love this from Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian today on how deep social change is non-linear, and takes faith and creative persistence and eyes to see.

Masterclass petty.

We are in an interesting point in understanding whiteness and American politics. How much shit are white folks willing to eat from Trump in order to uphold the racial hierarchy? Are the wages of whiteness getting too high? 🙃

#deviance

"Coloniality and its relations of domination, she claims, are also reproduced in the knowledge production of academic scholars of decoloniality, primarily from the global North".

👀

#blackademics

Just... weird.

Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others.

Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!

go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL

Yes. This 👇🏿

I want to be as happy as people in medication commercials as horrible side effects are being listed

📅 Don’t forget to save the date!

Join us for an online roundtable on Including Minority Voices in Research — a conversation on inclusivity, representation, and reflection in political psychology.

🗓 May 6 | 3:00–4:30 PM CEST | Zoom

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