Hey #booklovers and #podcast enthusiasts! Check out @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode about my new book: #Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness and Modernity in Accra ππ.
If you like what you hear, consider buying:
π www.pennpress.org/978151282465...
newbooksnetwork.com/headstrong
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Elon Musk has built his empire through ruthless exploitation, union busting, and dangerous working conditions, and his company's reliance on cobalt from Congo keeps fueling instability in the region that has resulted in the death and displacement of thousands.
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What's the tipping point between a protest and pep rally?
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Copy of the books, Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness and Modernity in Accra, with an close on the cover which features the portrait of a dark skinned Black woman with red, yellow, blue colors abstractly framing her face with the title of the book, Headstrong, written vertically down the cover. Art by Maku Azu. Book by Laurian R Bowles. Books are sitting on a table with a white table cloth.
Thank you to everyone who showed up, asked brilliant questions, and made the evening one to remember. We sold out of copiesπ
#BookLaunch #Headstrong #NewBeginnings #Blackfeminist #ethnography
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Same
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What's the tipping point between a protest and pep rally?
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4 panel graphic:
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Take a walk or a ride on those western streets, join in the fun, and keep an eye out for ICE. You know what to do.
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shunning is a useful choice
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"When we are so hyper-focused on who should be doing the job, instead of whoβs actually doing it, we miss the opportunity to have some really rich connections with people." Nedra Glover Tawwab
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A poem for insomnia:
The ceiling hums with hours, a few ticks to midnight
Your sky is breaking in pale fire.
I trace the shape of your name in darkness, a tide pulling east
If I could unspool this restless night, Iβd knot it gently to your morning lightβ joyful in a shared horizon.
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Headstrong
In this weekβs newsletter:
Tune in to this week's newsletter! Scholarly Sources with Laurian Bowles | Fast 5: Art & War with Christopher C. Gorham | Meet A Host with Jenna Pittman
@drlaurian.bsky.social
www.christophercgorham.com
scholars.duke.edu/person/Jenna...
newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/headstrong...
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Cover of Headstrong with a bright, multicolored portrait of a woman's face
Letβs give a round of applause for Ideas on Fire author Laurian Bowles @drlaurian.bsky.social on the release of Headstrong: ΒWomen Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra! π₯³ Itβs out now from @pennpress.bsky.social
www.pennpress.org/978151282465...
#IoFAuthors
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University for Development Studies (Ghana) becomes first African university to reach Universities World Cup quarterfinals with 4-1 win over Spainβs Ramon Llull
www.gbcghanaonline.com/sports/uds-s...
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I have been Facebook free for 15 years
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It's always been the bulk bins.
From the Home Economist, the Healthy Home Market to Fresh Fields to Sprouts Farmer's Market.
Bulk bins keep me and my p-touch in a happy place.
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She calls herself a radical but is conflict avoidant π€
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"And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirkβs death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I donβt know...1/2
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
"The essay is a razor-sharp critique of intellectuals who, by assuming the roles of βexpertsβ and technocrats for the state, abandon all moral, ethical, and historical judgment in order to advance ruling class interests and U.S. hegemony"
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
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Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Political Science at Davidson College
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