Venus Evans-Winters, Ph.D.

Health & Wellness in the Academy: Daughtering as a Community of Care YouTube video by Dr. Venus Evans-Winters

@drvenus.bsky.social and I started a new podcast series: Beyond the Soundbite: Black Feminist Research & Wellness. Check out the first episode www.youtube.com/live/LtSYQcZ...

Social Media Bans for Children Ignore the Reality of Digital Life Parents are better served developing digital literacy skills than trying to recreate their own childhoods.

Parents worried about their kids’ social media use are nostalgic for a version of their own childhood. They’d be better served cultivating digital literacy skills.

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.

Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

An older black woman with short salt & pepper hair in a blue knit cardigan looking off to the right. She is smiling and has her arms crossed.

NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.

Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!

What a great loss to the intellectual community. Condolences.

Call Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVP A permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest

www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

Girl, that’s called age! Each year added means more muscle pain and longer fatigue (okay, “recovery time” 🙄). It hurts all over!

You’re absolutely on it @nelsonlflores.bsky.social! I’ve been using research to point this out for years. Reagan even invented the concept of teen pregnancy to gut government programs for the poor. Social scientists were complicit in furthering the narrative.

I’ve authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than 10 books & dozens of journal articles & book chapters over the course of my career. Research/writing are not about individual success or personal achievement. Thinking & theorizing are about collective agency and liberatory knowledge.

‘Internment’ tells the dystopian story of a Muslim American teen fighting for justice. Author @samiraahmed.bsky.social calls banning stories like hers “identity erasure” & dissuades young activists who can drive real change. She joins me at 11a ET for the latest #VelshiBannedBookClub. #Velshi

Go read and write what you like! ✍🏽📚
As a Professor with 20 years in the game, I know for sure that reading, writing, and creating art that “you like” and need is a practice of freedom. 🧘🏽‍♀️🪷💜
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism

30 x 30 x 30 Mindfulness Writing Challenge

Go read and write what you like! ✍🏽📑📚
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Join the FREE 30x30x30 March mindfulness writing challenge! If this sounds like something you need, sign up: shorturl.at/OxHtk
#wellnesschallenge #journaling #writing #mentalwellness #spiritualactivism

YouTube video by ProPublica Mother Speaks Out Against Trump’s Detention of Her Son at Guantanamo

WATCH: When Angela Sequera learned that her son had been transferred from an El Paso immigration facility to Guantanamo, she panicked. Her son wasn’t a terrorist.

“It hit me like a bucket of cold water.”

Bringing Black Studies to Black People Dr. Adam Banks flies from the Bay Area to Cleveland most weekends to teach. Black studies in a neighborhood cafe.

I really encourage you to read this. It’s so good and important.

wordinblack.com/2025/02/brin...

Colleges scramble to meet federal anti-DEI deadline The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration wil...

Wary Colleges Scramble to Meet #DEI Deadline

The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration will go to enforce it. #HigherEd #EDUSky bit.ly/3F0SuSQ

In my mind, I hope and I PRAY that the other women called Reid up and asked for her blessing in how best to move forward. Because as we know, the “checkbox” replacement method as strategy hurts even more, in the short and long term. I hope they were respectful. You think this is what Reid wanted?

Picture of quote from W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America. "When the Confederates returned to domination, the public schools, which had attained a degree of efficiency never before reached in the South, were greatly curtailed. One hundred and ten of the teachers, many of them native-born, were dismissed at once, and their places were filled with intolerate Confederates."

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

I think this time the good old boys club screwed over the wrong wh*te boys.

American Experience | Chapter 1 | Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP | Season 37 | Episode 1 Watch a preview of Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP.

🎥📺🚨Premiering Feb 25: #ForgottenHeroPBS: Walter White and the NAACP, which traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and his anti-lynching work and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.
www.pbs.org/video/chapte... #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#tellemwhatwedid

We’re always reminded that we are replaceable. I hope Reid is doing well in this moment and continue to shine.

Civil rights law, affirmative action, diversity and equity programs, were designed to eliminate the obstacles faced by people whose ancestors were enslaved, they were created to address a *condition,*not as a “racial preference. Addressing a condition is not racial discrimination

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and…

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office:
• 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students
• 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence
• 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

📣The AERA 2025 Division K Pre-Conference Seminars application deadline has been extended to Feb 21! Please click the link to consider this FREE opportunity tinyurl.com/DivKPreSem

It’s strange watching critics of this administration turn to the judicial system.
Is anyone familiar with the tenets of Critical Race Theory?

Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives.

Calling all Pre-K — higher ed educators! Share your thoughts on PBS @NewsHour Classroom's Educator Voice blog.

Subject: Potential dismantling or transformation of the Dept. of Education ✍️ and how it affects you/your students. Share by Thurs., 2/13 here: bit.ly/40Q0vRw | #EduSky #sschat #DOE #edchat

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.