SA Smythe
@essaysmythe.bsky.social
blk critical theorist + transmedia artist. ‘black studies & the archive’ assoc. professor
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Glad it resonated with you.
Previous Alchemy Lectures are no longer online, and this one will only be up another week, but I highly recommend checking out all three books from this wonderful lecture series (in US, from Duke Press).
And we can expect a book of this year's lectures in 2026. 🫶🏾📚
Previous Alchemy Lectures are no longer online, and this one will only be up another week, but I highly recommend checking out all three books from this wonderful lecture series (in US, from Duke Press).
And we can expect a book of this year's lectures in 2026. 🫶🏾📚
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Glad it resonated with you.
Previous Alchemy Lectures are no longer online, and this one will only be up another week, but I highly recommend checking out all three books from this wonderful lecture series (in US, from Duke Press).
And we can expect a book of this year's lectures in 2026. 🫶🏾📚
Previous Alchemy Lectures are no longer online, and this one will only be up another week, but I highly recommend checking out all three books from this wonderful lecture series (in US, from Duke Press).
And we can expect a book of this year's lectures in 2026. 🫶🏾📚
It’s a gift not a chore💜 Plus I feel like you posted some stats (on the fka bird app?) about folks getting the newsletter email but not opening them and my virgo sensibilities were activated 😤😂
a woman in an orange shirt is sitting at a table with a glass of water and a watch .
ALT: a woman in an orange shirt is sitting at a table with a glass of water and a watch .
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October 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s a gift not a chore💜 Plus I feel like you posted some stats (on the fka bird app?) about folks getting the newsletter email but not opening them and my virgo sensibilities were activated 😤😂
Not proud to say I’m still on #29 😭 but congrats and I’m coming up from the rear to catch the good word!
a little girl in a red shirt is running through a doorway and says i 'm coming i 'm coming
ALT: a little girl in a red shirt is running through a doorway and says i 'm coming i 'm coming
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October 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Not proud to say I’m still on #29 😭 but congrats and I’m coming up from the rear to catch the good word!
I do, I really do
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I do, I really do
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You don’t have to be serious all the time but you should understand serious things are happening everyday as a result of words.
September 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
You don’t have to be serious all the time but you should understand serious things are happening everyday as a result of words.
perhaps another circle for how we simply cannot fully compute the scale of lives lost, nor the toll this inability will carry on a psychic, physiological or policy level, all areas in which the West is already bereft.
May 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
perhaps another circle for how we simply cannot fully compute the scale of lives lost, nor the toll this inability will carry on a psychic, physiological or policy level, all areas in which the West is already bereft.
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Proximity to power has academia & the 4th estate in service to authoritarian empire. They distort our relationship & access to material resources, evidence, knowledge, and replace it with violence. Shoutout to students of the world—permitted to graduate or not, for calling us into global account.
May 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Proximity to power has academia & the 4th estate in service to authoritarian empire. They distort our relationship & access to material resources, evidence, knowledge, and replace it with violence. Shoutout to students of the world—permitted to graduate or not, for calling us into global account.