Murylo Batista #EndFemicideKE Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés Y. Figueroa-Vásquez Marlene Daut Kaiama L Glover 💥 sx salon Small Axe Lissette Acosta Corniel CUNYDominicanStudies Cassie Osei is Writing a Book Proposal Vanessa Pérez-Rosario Erika Denise Edwards No Comps Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes) Keisha-Khan Y. Perry The Caribbean Translation Project American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Dr. Robin Mitchell You might be interested in this. Deadline is imminent, but maybe they will run it again next year. PRizes are a good way to get noticed for a contract. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2…

The day is almost here! My book, “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War” will be available tomorrow.

Consider purchasing your copy from your favorite local bookstore, or, support Philly-based Black-woman-owned @harriettsbookshop.

This poor baby has been begging for clean water all her life..Sad

Just finished reading this beautiful novel and my life will never be the same. Thank you to Susan Abulhawa gifting me Nahr.

It’s hard to feel celebratory in this hard moment but nonetheless is an honor to be the recipient of an award named Barbara Christian. Grateful to the committee for selecting me. Hopeful still that my book Translating Blackness can help us dialogue across. Gracias.

It’s book launch day!!!!! So exciting!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 it’s finally here!!!!

So excited and grateful to be part of this new group of historians to join Penn this academic year.

penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penns-lon…

Emory University announces recruitment for the first African American Studies Ph.D. Program in the U.S. Southeast; we are currently accepting applications. For more details, please visit: aas.emory.edu/graduate/

Came home from a long day to find this on my porch!! Y’all I’m elated!! FIVE YEARS OF HARD WORK and it’s finally here!! 🎉🎉🎉. The Dialectic is in the Sea. Thank you @BethaniaGomes9 Archie Davies Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s!! I’m crying over here 😭😭

Garifuna New Yorkers performing punta for this 20th Anniversary of Reinterment of the Ancestors is soooo significant #IndigenousBlackness and I just got the inspiration to finish up my “Epilogue: The Futurities of Indigenous Blackness: Garifuna Studies mañana”

I already shared the joint flyer but this one so pretty I’m sharing again

Yesterday at Columbia I witnessed the brilliance of four Black women scholars: Josefina Baez, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Lorgia Garcia Peña, and THE Hortense Spillers! What a gorgeous day on that stunning campus!

🗓️ Oct 5
📍 Fac House (2nd Floor)
🔗sofheyman.org/events/crooked…
Join us for a discussion of Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Jr. novel Crooked Plow. The author will talk with anthropologist Keisha-Khan Y. Perry and translator Johnny Lorenz to explore literary writing & long shadow of slavery

Oct 5 | 6:15pm

Itamar Vieira Junior, Johnny Lorenz, & Keisha-Khan Y. Perry discuss translation, writing, social justice work, and slavery's long shadow.

Register: tinyurl.com/3h36amph

University Seminar on Public Humanities CU History Department SOF/Heyman at Columbia University Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro ILAS | Columbia University

Oct 5 Save the Date 🇧🇷 Columbia University. Free and open to the public. Translating Social Justice. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Literally revising my course syllabus right now! What an urgently needed & timely edited volume! Thank you Keisha-Khan Y. Perry for all of the grounds you continue to break open for us, seeing Karen Spencer’s art on the cover, makes my heart smile real big! Ida’s Revenge Melanie Y. White 🔥

Join the SOF/Heyman at Columbia University on 10/5 for a discussion of Itamar Vieira Junior’s best-selling novel Crooked Plow. The panelists will explore literary writing, social justice work, and the long shadow that slavery casts.

Congratulations #IoFAuthor Nicosia Shakes! Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa is available for preorder from Illinois Press. It's out just in time for fall syllabus planning and late #SummerReading lists. buff.ly/441GqI8

Seeing the first dissertation become a book warms my heart as a professor. We live for the success of our students.

I'm so proud to teach the work of Nicosia Shakes semester.