Haylee Harrell
@hayleehar.bsky.social
they/them | Black Feminist Theorist | tattooed, gay, & annoyed | Black Studies Prof & scholar of peculiar inventions @ University of Houston | ✍🏾 on queer intimate ghosts & embodied anxiety
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Haylee Harrell
@hayleehar.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Let’s try this again, Hello y’all 👋🏽
I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.
I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.
now out in the world (via onlinefirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
I am so happy to have penned this ode to a text for which I’m so stylistically and theoretically indebted & I can’t wait for the rest of the special issue of Feminist Theory to be live🌸
I am so happy to have penned this ode to a text for which I’m so stylistically and theoretically indebted & I can’t wait for the rest of the special issue of Feminist Theory to be live🌸
From the shadows: An ode to Patricia J Williams's Alchemy of Race and Rights - Haylee Christine Harrell, 2025
This multi-genre essay argues the importance of Patricia J Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor as a theoretical tour-de-for...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
now out in the world (via onlinefirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
I am so happy to have penned this ode to a text for which I’m so stylistically and theoretically indebted & I can’t wait for the rest of the special issue of Feminist Theory to be live🌸
I am so happy to have penned this ode to a text for which I’m so stylistically and theoretically indebted & I can’t wait for the rest of the special issue of Feminist Theory to be live🌸
The proofs for “black Foucault: An Intellectual Reparations Project” are here!! I cannot wait for this ten year long collaborative project (w/my fav interlocutor Taryn D Jordan) to come out in Foucault Studies’ spring issue🌸🖤
February 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The proofs for “black Foucault: An Intellectual Reparations Project” are here!! I cannot wait for this ten year long collaborative project (w/my fav interlocutor Taryn D Jordan) to come out in Foucault Studies’ spring issue🌸🖤
HAUNT(ING) | HAUNTED | GHOSTS | INTIMACY
First class of #IntimateGhosts is done! The room was packed & they didn’t come to play. Here is an obligatory board picture to show the entanglement of terms that will be shaping our discussions this semester.
First class of #IntimateGhosts is done! The room was packed & they didn’t come to play. Here is an obligatory board picture to show the entanglement of terms that will be shaping our discussions this semester.
January 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
HAUNT(ING) | HAUNTED | GHOSTS | INTIMACY
First class of #IntimateGhosts is done! The room was packed & they didn’t come to play. Here is an obligatory board picture to show the entanglement of terms that will be shaping our discussions this semester.
First class of #IntimateGhosts is done! The room was packed & they didn’t come to play. Here is an obligatory board picture to show the entanglement of terms that will be shaping our discussions this semester.
Half of my time being a professor is running back and forth between my office and the faculty lounge trying to print something😩
January 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Half of my time being a professor is running back and forth between my office and the faculty lounge trying to print something😩
Currently reading Taryn D Jordan on the Force of Black Domesticity: brill.com/view/journal...
January 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Currently reading Taryn D Jordan on the Force of Black Domesticity: brill.com/view/journal...
Friday’s panel is sadly cancelled! But hopefully y’all will see that work somewhere in print soon👀
Saturday’s panel is still on!
Stay safe out there everyone🖤🖤
Saturday’s panel is still on!
Stay safe out there everyone🖤🖤
I’m going to be at #MLA2025! I’m excited to be presenting on a black queer reading-writing practice for haunting and the haunted & “the heaves” as embodied racial anxiety in Adrian Piper’s travel memoir “Escape to Berlin.”
January 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Friday’s panel is sadly cancelled! But hopefully y’all will see that work somewhere in print soon👀
Saturday’s panel is still on!
Stay safe out there everyone🖤🖤
Saturday’s panel is still on!
Stay safe out there everyone🖤🖤
I’m going to be at #MLA2025! I’m excited to be presenting on a black queer reading-writing practice for haunting and the haunted & “the heaves” as embodied racial anxiety in Adrian Piper’s travel memoir “Escape to Berlin.”
January 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’m going to be at #MLA2025! I’m excited to be presenting on a black queer reading-writing practice for haunting and the haunted & “the heaves” as embodied racial anxiety in Adrian Piper’s travel memoir “Escape to Berlin.”
Lemme rant here too: not me and my brother standing up for a black woman worker at the airport and this man came back at us with this “TAKE OFF YOUR MASK. I DARE YOU TO TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!”
The way this palm colored man’s face got all red and he stomped his damn foot like a toddler. Like sir😩
The way this palm colored man’s face got all red and he stomped his damn foot like a toddler. Like sir😩
December 30, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Lemme rant here too: not me and my brother standing up for a black woman worker at the airport and this man came back at us with this “TAKE OFF YOUR MASK. I DARE YOU TO TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!”
The way this palm colored man’s face got all red and he stomped his damn foot like a toddler. Like sir😩
The way this palm colored man’s face got all red and he stomped his damn foot like a toddler. Like sir😩
my mom still calls my job “school.” As in “Are you reading that book for pleasure or for school?” she is also the same woman who smiles & says “my little nerd” every time I update her on what I’ve been writing/teaching.
I guess to her, I will forever be that little kid tucked in a corner reading 😂
I guess to her, I will forever be that little kid tucked in a corner reading 😂
December 28, 2024 at 9:19 PM
my mom still calls my job “school.” As in “Are you reading that book for pleasure or for school?” she is also the same woman who smiles & says “my little nerd” every time I update her on what I’ve been writing/teaching.
I guess to her, I will forever be that little kid tucked in a corner reading 😂
I guess to her, I will forever be that little kid tucked in a corner reading 😂
Holiday thoughts: everytime I’m w/my mom & brother together it takes zero time for me to realize we are WEIRDOS! Shared quirks, shared vocal affectations, constant disassociations, lovers of a silly little snack & good drink.
Man I love my lil Aries trio, I have no clue how my pops dealt w/us😂
Man I love my lil Aries trio, I have no clue how my pops dealt w/us😂
December 23, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Holiday thoughts: everytime I’m w/my mom & brother together it takes zero time for me to realize we are WEIRDOS! Shared quirks, shared vocal affectations, constant disassociations, lovers of a silly little snack & good drink.
Man I love my lil Aries trio, I have no clue how my pops dealt w/us😂
Man I love my lil Aries trio, I have no clue how my pops dealt w/us😂
opened a delivery today just to find out my brother bought my dogs night lights for when we are out of town (our dog sitter comes by the house to take care of them but doesn’t stay overnight). Apparently “it gets dark & they might get nervous”
&& he claims they ain’t his dogs too👀🤦🏽♀️
&& he claims they ain’t his dogs too👀🤦🏽♀️
December 20, 2024 at 5:53 PM
opened a delivery today just to find out my brother bought my dogs night lights for when we are out of town (our dog sitter comes by the house to take care of them but doesn’t stay overnight). Apparently “it gets dark & they might get nervous”
&& he claims they ain’t his dogs too👀🤦🏽♀️
&& he claims they ain’t his dogs too👀🤦🏽♀️
Reposted by Haylee Harrell
Link here: muse.jhu.edu/article/947275
Project MUSE - Gayl Jones's Afro-Brazil: Hemispheric Black Feminisms and (Mis)Readings of Marronage
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December 20, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Link here: muse.jhu.edu/article/947275
how imma look hyping up my students next semester;
December 19, 2024 at 6:42 PM
how imma look hyping up my students next semester;
Reposted by Haylee Harrell
Read the free intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social for the second Alchemy Lecture, "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," featuring work from Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
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ow.ly/ScU150TTn7N
October 28, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Read the free intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social for the second Alchemy Lecture, "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," featuring work from Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
ow.ly/ScU150TTn7N
ow.ly/ScU150TTn7N
Reposted by Haylee Harrell
My tribute to the late, great Tony Todd just went up on @fangoria.bsky.social online! It features an interview @kundalinisteve.bsky.social & I did with him.
You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149)
www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...
You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149)
www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...
Remembering Tony Todd: The Legacy Of Candyman In His Own Words
Honoring Tony Todd: The legacy of CANDYMAN in his own words. Tananarive Due unearths a rare interview with the late legend.
www.fangoria.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM
My tribute to the late, great Tony Todd just went up on @fangoria.bsky.social online! It features an interview @kundalinisteve.bsky.social & I did with him.
You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149)
www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...
You can also hear the full interview I excerpt here on our podcast at www.lifewritingpodcast.com (Ep 149)
www.fangoria.com/tony-todd-ca...
Reposted by Haylee Harrell
Archiving the Black Web has opened up our applications for Web Archiving School. Apply to be a fellow, instructor, or teaching assistant. Apps due January 31st, 2025.
Applications now open for our Web Archiving School. We’re looking for Fellows, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants. Deadline to apply is January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/
WArc School – ATBW
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December 16, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Archiving the Black Web has opened up our applications for Web Archiving School. Apply to be a fellow, instructor, or teaching assistant. Apps due January 31st, 2025.
your queer-feminist’s favorite queer-feminist #newprofilepic
December 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM
your queer-feminist’s favorite queer-feminist #newprofilepic
spring grad course on lock (&& at capacity)
December 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM
spring grad course on lock (&& at capacity)
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my favorite genre of christmas song is “Horny for Santa” and i feel like we have progressed as a society enough to add one “Horny for Krampus” standard into the mix
December 11, 2024 at 8:29 PM
my favorite genre of christmas song is “Horny for Santa” and i feel like we have progressed as a society enough to add one “Horny for Krampus” standard into the mix
Let’s try this again, Hello y’all 👋🏽
I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.
I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.
December 11, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Let’s try this again, Hello y’all 👋🏽
I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.
I am a black feminist theorist & scholar of peculiar (affective & speculative) inventions. I’m currently a prof of Blk studies researching embodied anxiety, ghosts of racial intermixture, & queer intimate haunting in Blk lit & culture.
Reposted by Haylee Harrell
Might revive the Failure to Identify series in 2025. It has been on pause since 2020. i provide an audience, an event, a venue, a place to sleep, and maybe even some funds if we plan far enough in advance. If interested in reading/performing, let me know.
jdpluecker.com/failure-to-i...
jdpluecker.com/failure-to-i...
Failure to Identify — JD Pluecker
jdpluecker.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Might revive the Failure to Identify series in 2025. It has been on pause since 2020. i provide an audience, an event, a venue, a place to sleep, and maybe even some funds if we plan far enough in advance. If interested in reading/performing, let me know.
jdpluecker.com/failure-to-i...
jdpluecker.com/failure-to-i...
If you have Apple TV and are waiting for Succession to return, you should watch Bad Sisters in the meantime. It is such a fun ensemble cast and an entertaining and thought provoking take on the female revenge//“Good for Her” trope.
December 11, 2024 at 9:21 PM
If you have Apple TV and are waiting for Succession to return, you should watch Bad Sisters in the meantime. It is such a fun ensemble cast and an entertaining and thought provoking take on the female revenge//“Good for Her” trope.
I finally watched Seligman’s SHIVA BABY and this is a horror film right? The way Seligman shoots the last third of the film, the close up shots between Diana Argon and Rachel Sennott, it all crafts such tension—I’m wildly anxious even as the film has ended
#FilmSky
#FilmSky
December 8, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I finally watched Seligman’s SHIVA BABY and this is a horror film right? The way Seligman shoots the last third of the film, the close up shots between Diana Argon and Rachel Sennott, it all crafts such tension—I’m wildly anxious even as the film has ended
#FilmSky
#FilmSky
this arrangement (put together by the trumpet player Tatiana Tate) is just OUTSTANDING. I love black women & femmes
Doechii Tiny Desk is out now!
Run, don’t walk!
Run, don’t walk!
Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 7, 2024 at 6:29 PM
this arrangement (put together by the trumpet player Tatiana Tate) is just OUTSTANDING. I love black women & femmes
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What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand returns to BTC to discuss Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck - Tin House
What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand’s latest book of nonfiction Salvage: ...
tinhouse.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:42 PM
What does it mean that a life can not only be animated by books but destroyed by them? That a self can be not only made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand returns to BTC to discuss Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social