This is an article from College English about how the poet-essayist-activist-teacher June Jordan navigated standardized vs. subjugated language practices in her CUNY class. It’s a super powerful essay and shows, among other things, how one’s personal experiences and positionally can be inseparable from one’s academic perspective. This essay was…[Read more]

This is a list of readings and other sources that are related to or alluded to in Beyonce’s visual album “Lemonade.” The file attached is just the first page, but you can view the whole thing here: https://diasporahypertext.com/2016/05/07/download-the-lemonadesyllabus-compiled-by-candice-benbow/
I think this could be a great resource for…[Read more]

I heard about this book reading an interview with Samuel Delany about literary pornography or pornographic literature, which he himself is a writer of. He mentions a time in the late 60’s when a publisher Essex House reached out to poets and literary fiction writers for erotic works with the only requirement being that the works focused on sex in…[Read more]

I’ve attached the introductory chapter to Rob Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which I read a couple years back and wanted to return to in context of works I’ve read since then. I’m particularly drawn to Nixon’s re-formulation of Mary Louise-Pratt’s concept of “planetary consciousness” which she describes in terms…[Read more]

The article discusses the implications of body image when the superhero begins as a disempowered hero and gains superpowers over time.

This excerpt from DuBois’s work discusses the idea of “double consciousness” that all African Americans possess. By being oppressed, they’re able to see the roles of the oppressed as well as the oppressors.

third example

Queer reading of Bollywood.

Indian short story writer.

http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html

This link leads to an article that includes a UC Berkeley lecture that Sun Ra did for an American Studies course. The link also includes a reading list that Sun Ra put together. I couldn’t upload the link as a file, so instead I found a…[Read more]

In this article Mel Y. Chen focuses on “the extended meanings of toxicity” as they pertain to race by focusing on a case of lead panic in toys. I found this via Project Muse

This is the first page of a letter from the Leslie Marmon Silko archive at the Beinecke (I’ll upload the second page following this post) by Silko to a Tuscon venue protesting the security checks she’s been subjected to in her regular attendance. Silko calls out what she calls the “death squad impersonators” who searched her, and asks whether…[Read more]

Sometimes you’ll be asked to send a short professional bio. Here is mine, as an example.

Haven’t quite updated it, but it’s more or less right.