Azsaneé Truss, PhD

NYC friends! Come through next Friday!

We are excited to reconvene Center alums: @hannamorris.bsky.social, @muira.bsky.social, @richardstupart.com @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social @cratebeats.bsky.social @azsaneet.bsky.social @sristovska.bsky.social @rouxpz.bsky.social & more! We hope you can join us! Register here: bit.ly/42NTpii

Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates

🎓 🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. graduates!! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

A photo of me flanked by three new WOC PhD graduates in their blue and red regalia and 8 sided caps. We are all grinning.

Helped make a few more PhDs this year and yep this is one of the absolute best part
Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones

#PhDone 👩🏾‍🎓

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Now that I’ve defended, the way I sprinkle a lil “Dr.” or “PhD” on EVERYTHING. Email signature, bio, plane ticket, packages. If it has my name on it, there’s a prefix or suffix now

Thank you!!

(Re)Search For Solutions

Research for Solutions brings together voices of researchers, community org partners, & members of impacted communities to discuss interventions to firearm related violence. Hosted by @sonalirajan.bsky.social; S1 produced by @azsaneet.bsky.social & @jriinaferrie.bsky.social
researchforsolutions.com

Groovin Griot | Media | Digital Futures Institute (DFI) | Teachers College, Columbia University Teachers College Digital Futures Institute (DFI) is an interdisciplinary hub for digital innovation, with a mission to advance more just social futures that is driven by research, pedagogy, and public...

Groovin’ Griot is a podcast about how we use dance to tell stories. Hosts @azsaneet.bsky.social & OreOluwa Badaki talk with researchers and dancers to help unpack the role of dance in research; In their conversations, they talk roots, rhythm, community, & more.

www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...

Thanks Nathan!!!

🎉 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social who successfully defended her dissertation, “Conspi(racism): Subversive Ideas in Black American Art & Media," last Friday!

I did a thing!

Feminism and the Far-Right A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

I'll be speaking at an incredible symposium, Feminism and the Far Right, at Goldsmiths on June 6th! It'll be early on the east coast but worth setting your alarm for ⏰ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

Three Annenberg Doctoral Candidates Receive 2025 Sachs Program Grants

🎉Congrats to Annenberg doctoral candidates Lucila Rozas Urrunaga, Farrah Rahaman, and Azsaneé Truss for receiving 2025 Sachs Program Grants, which will fund their creative projects. Learn about their projects here:

Charles Mills hive, wya!?

I’m done drafting all of my dissertation chapters & this weekend I have nothing to do because I’m waiting on feedback. I’ve been twiddling my thumbs all day — I literally do not know what to do with free time any more 🙃

You gotta get on tiktok to see all the theories folks have. It’s borderline unhinged but it’s so much fun

Azsaneé Truss considers how #conspiracy theorizing among #Black #Americans draws on "critical (more honest) histories" that the dominant public often ignores. mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/26/a...

This is the 3rd week in a row I’m listening to The Read & it’s nothing but Target ads for the first 10 mins smh

Philly-area lawmakers walk out of meeting with Penn president over DEI cuts A Pennsylvania state senator and state representative left the meeting after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”

NEW: Two Philly-area lawmakers walked out of a meeting with the @upenn.edu president on Tuesday after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”

One state senator called the meeting “bullshit.” @whyy.org whyy.org/articles/pen...

what if we just *didn't* write conclusion paragraphs? what if we all just agreed to stop... amirite?

I know there are bigger things happening in the world. But today I just can’t believe i keep having to do dishes. Every day. Washing dishes. It never ends

As expected smh

Some Schools Act After Trump’s D.E.I. Orders. Others Say They’ll Resist. Some universities are scrubbing websites and canceling events to comply with executive orders targeting diversity efforts. Other schools are promising to resist.

“It’s meant to create chaos in higher education, and in that it’s been successful. The responses are all over the map.”
– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on Trump's attempts to end D.E.I. activity on campuses.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

Putting this on a t-shirt.

As an avid childhood reader of Captain Underpants, I would argue that the nutritional value of those books was very high & therefore this entire list needs to be thrown out. Gonna go dig up my old collection while I listen to this week’s Pop Off!

I’m nothing if not a Mills stan. Go read my work in Media Theory!

Thinking back on how Charles Mills reframed the social contract as a racial contract, @azsaneet.bsky.social asks "what if the social construction of race is, in and of itself, a conspiracy?" #race #Black #racism #conspiracy https://buff.ly/4aSyygC

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As a part of the swamp, I am personally thrilled by the events of this evening #grammys