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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social
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Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic
PhD in American Literature
Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ | my views, not employer's |
book:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
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This year's American Studies Association conference was a joy! My first ASA was 2015, and ten years later I was a respondent on an "Author Meets Critics" session on my first book! I am so deeply thankful for my colleagues' thoughtful engagement, and energized by the ASA conference as a whole!
Five scholars seen standing against a Black backdrop in a convention center. From left to right: Brigitte Nicole Fielder, Sasha Ann Panaram, Christopher Paul Harris, Jess A Goldberg, Marquis Bey, Almas Khan.
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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And if you're at ASA, come join us at this 9:45am session on Thursday for a roundtable on my book!
A flyer with information for an "Author Meets Critics" panel at the 2025 American Studies Association conference. The book in focus is "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" by Jess A. Goldberg. The flyer has headshots of the six participants: Brigitte Fielder, Marquis Bey, Christopher Paul Harris, Almas Khan, Sasha Ann Panaram, Jess A. Goldberg The session will take place on Thursday Dec 20th from 9:45 to 11:15 AM in Salon A of Ballroom A in the Puerto Rico Convention Center.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Start of a 17-hour travel day to Puerto Rico -- see you soon, ASA!

(Hollar if you're there!)

#2025ASA #ASA2025
Jess sits in an airport wearing an N95 mask and a keffiyeh
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A student said I look "gothic" today.

I was going for anarcho-socialist ❤️🖤😂
Jess standing in front of a chalkboard in a classroom wearing an ankle-length black skirt and red sweater blouse with a keffiyeh over their shoulders and two black necklaces.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends!

Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A
A flyer with information for an "Author Meets Critics" panel at the 2025 American Studies Association conference. The book in focus is "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" by Jess A. Goldberg. The flyer has headshots of the six participants: Brigitte Fielder, Marquis Bey, Christopher Paul Harris, Almas Khan, Sasha Ann Panaram, Jess A. Goldberg The session will take place on Thursday Dec 20th from 9:45 to 11:15 AM in Salon A of Ballroom A in the Puerto Rico Convention Center.
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Unrelated but also I think my hair looked really good yesterday. Even though I am so clearly exhausted 😅
A selfie of Jess seated at their office desk.
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This text is definitely my "most frequently taught book" in my career, and it can be really challenging for students. I was proud of their engagement and close reading today, and extra satisfied that it came across in a Zoom class.
A copy of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs on a red notebook on a desk.
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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My NY heart is sad I can't be voting for Mamdani today but I did vote in my local elections here in northern New Mexico!
Jess standing in front of a high school gymnasium building being used as a polling place on election day.
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I have not reached at least six hours of sleep once in the last ten days and I'm stressed as hell but I'm feeling prettier and more trans every day so there's that
Jess smiles into the camera with a bush and sky behind them. They are wearing glasses and dangling pink crystal earrings.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Good morning, #asap16

@asapartsnow.bsky.social
Jess in a blue dress, pink blazer, and keffiyeh taking a selfie on a side street with a large hospital building in the background
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Heading to Houston for #ASAP16 ✈️

I'm not staying for the whole weekend so let me know if you are there!

(Is ASAP on Bluesky?)
Jess wearing a mask and keffiyeh in an airplane seat.
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Felt pretty. Won't delete.

(I am incredibly bad at putting on and removing earrings lol need practice!)
Jess seen smiling in a selfie.
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!

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Jess stands at a microphone at the back of a coffee shop reading from their book "Abolition Time" as people seated at tables listen. Jess is seen standing and gesturing in mid-sentence at a book talk on a small coffee shop. They are wearing a pink dress, black boots, and a keffiyeh.
October 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I've been teaching "anti-American" content that could be construed as "extremism on race/gender/migration" for my entire career and have gotten in trouble for it before. It's weird now that when I walk in the room as trans I'm embodying "extremism on gender." But I will never stop teaching what I do
The phrase "We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us" written in chalk on a green chalkboard.
October 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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New faculty page headshot is up and for the first time in my career the photo makes me smile more than the text. What a wonder of a cocktail of makeup, a new haircut, and hormones is for gender dysphoria.
A screenshot of a faculty page with the following text: Jess A. Goldberg Assistant Professor of English, Undergraduate Studies Coordinator for English, Co-Director of Gender & Women’s Studies Ph.D. Cornell University, 2018 jagoldberg@nmhu.edu 505-454-3329 Pronouns: they/them Teaching and research interests include American literature, abolitionist thought, Black studies, carceral studies (prisons, policing, and criminalization), gender studies (especially queer and feminist theory), critical race theory and ethnic studies (with a focus on white supremacy), legal humanities, environmental humanities, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism.
September 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I love this new haircut I have NEVER IN MY LIFE been happy with how my own face looks in the way that I am now
Jess seen from the lower torso up, seated in an office chair, smiling with a bookshelf behind them. They are wearing round glasses, stud earrings, a floral blouse, a red sweater, and two necklaces.
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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My health insurance is dropping gender affirming care coverage for both children AND adults soon because the US government thinks trans people shouldn't exist, BUT I just got huge gender euphoria from this haircut so THERE ☺️
A photo of Jess from the mid-torso up. They are wearing a black anti-fascist t-shirt and glasses and are smiling because of their new haircut. Jess facing the camera and smiling as they grab their glasses with one hand, the other on their hip. They are wearing a black anti-fascist t-shirt and a plaid shirt and are happily showing off their new haircut. A headshot of Jess smiling.
August 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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As we approach a new academic year, I'd like to humbly ask you to consider teaching from my new book *Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice,* published by the University of Minnesota Press in December 2024.
A copy of the book "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" is shown propped up on a ledge against a background of trees and greenery.
August 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Felt very pretty this weekend while taking a couple of days fully away from work and organizing. One of my partners and I had a lovely weekend date. A lovely #t4t relationship dynamic is how they help me think through how both non-binary and trans-femme feel right to me and what that means.
Jess leans against railing on a rooftop with the Santa Fe skyline and a sunset behind them. They are wearing a form-fitting sleeveless black top and a loose blue and white vertical striped ankle length skirt with a slit up the front to just above the knee and open-toed wedge heels.
August 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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hi I am 35 years old and only now discovering that I can wear multiple necklaces of different lengths to style a look. Please forgive me I am late to my own personal aesthetic 😅 🏳️‍⚧️
Jess seen from the waist up taking a selfie with their extended right arm. They are wearing a blue and purple low neck dress, an all black collarbone length metal necklace with a robust design of wavy leaves, and a rope necklace with an obsidian crystal. They are also wearing glasses and are standing in an alley between homes in small-town New Mexico, trees behind them.
July 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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She's cooking up some new writing this summer.
An array of books in Indigenous and settler colonial studies laid out on a brown office desk. Select titles are Jodi Byrd's The Transit of Empire, Layli Long Soldier's Whereas, Ghassan Kanafani's All That's Left to You, and Edward Said's Orientalism.
June 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Finding some t4t joy in the in-between.
On the left, a trans masc person in a green button down wearing hexagonal rose gold glasses and a nose ring with purple and silver hair holds a tall glass of a cucumber-green drink. On the right, a trans-femme person in a pink buttoned dress wearing round glasses and opal stud earrings holds a stemmed cocktail glass with a pink drink garnished with lemon peel. Both face the camera and smile.
June 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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🍉
Jess sitting in an airport photographer from the shoulders up. They are wearing glasses and a KN95 mask. On the mask is a decorative chain with watermelon pendants on it. They are also wearing a keffiyeh and green denim jacket. Behind them are paintings hung on the airport wall.
June 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Art gallery look
Jess at center of a photo. They are standing in a "green" of a school campus with buildings, including a small castle structure, behind them. They are wearing a light green and floral pattern dress and open-toed heels, a rope necklace with an amethyst, and a bracelet of purple, blue, and white stones and beads. Jess at center of a photo. They are standing in a "green" of a school campus with buildings, including a small castle structure, behind them. They are wearing a light green and floral pattern dress and a rope necklace with an amethyst, and a bracelet of purple, blue, and white stones and beads.
June 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A totally not posed after the fact photo of our "New books on Race in Cultural Studies" panel at CSA!

Panelists and book titles threaded because you should know about these fabulous books!
May 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM