Hi Jess, thanks for highlighting this section from Moten and Harney! I’m so interested in their idea of the “social” and “institutionalized” being: I’m thinking of Moten’s quote, from I think a different text, […]

Keshia, thanks for this post! I think about this a lot because many of my students in the Queens College Education program are Caribbean or Caribbean origin, either Black or Indo-Caribbean, and when we talk about […]

I appreciate this historical point about Howard University, Lucien – a Black university is not (only) about demographic composition, but (also) about centering Blackness is all areas of university life – but that […]

Hi Matt, I’m not actually sure I *can* walk through the idea that diversity/representation can be weaponized – one of the reasons I want to discuss it is because I’m unsure of its implications and what it might […]

Thanks, Lucien! I I appreciated your mention of “abolition university studies: an invitation” in class this week–as you can probably tell from some of the questions I’ve asked here, a lot of my thinking around […]