Onik0yi
@onikoyi.bsky.social
Black studies | Political economy | Nighttime | Lagos | Abolition Geographies
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It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union
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January 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge
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Looking forward to speaking at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase College) as the 2025 Fred Wilson Lecturer in Global Black Studies and also for the ‘Black Studies and the Crises of Our Times’ symposium at UB. I’m genuinely honored!
January 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Looking forward to speaking at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase College) as the 2025 Fred Wilson Lecturer in Global Black Studies and also for the ‘Black Studies and the Crises of Our Times’ symposium at UB. I’m genuinely honored!
Screening online until January 26, TRICKSTERS, a program of experimental short films by filmmakers from the African continent and its diaspora!
www.monangambee.org/tricksters
www.monangambee.org/tricksters
January 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Screening online until January 26, TRICKSTERS, a program of experimental short films by filmmakers from the African continent and its diaspora!
www.monangambee.org/tricksters
www.monangambee.org/tricksters
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Surprise, surprise.
Increased reliance on ChatGPT was associated with higher levels of procrastination and memory loss, and a negative impact on academic performance, as reflected in students’ grade point averages.”
www.psypost.org/chatgpt-link...
www.psypost.org/chatgpt-link...
ChatGPT linked to declining academic performance and memory loss in new study
New research uncovers a concerning trend: while ChatGPT might aid students under academic pressure, its excessive use is linked to procrastination, memory loss, and poorer grades, highlighting a negat...
www.psypost.org
January 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Surprise, surprise.
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GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025. The deadline for applications is 3/1. Happy to share program contact with interested folx
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025. The deadline for applications is 3/1. Happy to share program contact with interested folx
Audre Lorde Papers | Spelman College | Atlanta, GA
“The Audre Lorde papers are one of the most significant among special collections in the Spelman archives,” said Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women’s Center and the Anna Ju...
www.spelman.edu
January 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025. The deadline for applications is 3/1. Happy to share program contact with interested folx
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer 2025. The deadline for applications is 3/1. Happy to share program contact with interested folx
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Coming out of the oven in IJURR, on the urban of the recurrent crisis in the Latin American context:
Saindo do forno no IJURR, sobre o urbano da crise recorrente no contexto latino-americano. Em breve sai a versão em português. Inbox para PDFs:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Saindo do forno no IJURR, sobre o urbano da crise recorrente no contexto latino-americano. Em breve sai a versão em português. Inbox para PDFs:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
URBANIZING VOLATILITY: On Recurrent Crises and the Economic Rhythms of Latin American Urbanization
Debates on global South urbanization have been an important focus of recent urban studies scholarship. Looking at the urban South from the point of view of the Latin American context, this article hi...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Coming out of the oven in IJURR, on the urban of the recurrent crisis in the Latin American context:
Saindo do forno no IJURR, sobre o urbano da crise recorrente no contexto latino-americano. Em breve sai a versão em português. Inbox para PDFs:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Saindo do forno no IJURR, sobre o urbano da crise recorrente no contexto latino-americano. Em breve sai a versão em português. Inbox para PDFs:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you are in Lagos, Nigeria in January and into films, there are a few screenings and a film workshop coming up by Monangambee. Always a pleasure to curate with these folks 💜
January 10, 2025 is Unsettled Grounds on landscape, labor, ecology and the afterlives of colonialism
January 10, 2025 is Unsettled Grounds on landscape, labor, ecology and the afterlives of colonialism
December 31, 2024 at 4:28 PM
If you are in Lagos, Nigeria in January and into films, there are a few screenings and a film workshop coming up by Monangambee. Always a pleasure to curate with these folks 💜
January 10, 2025 is Unsettled Grounds on landscape, labor, ecology and the afterlives of colonialism
January 10, 2025 is Unsettled Grounds on landscape, labor, ecology and the afterlives of colonialism
A superb list ✨
Perverts, yearners, and sensualists! All that edging is over. The moment has finally arrived. Here is my 40-films deep list of movies that fuck. Argue with your momma. I know I freaked it with this one. letterboxd.com/angelicajade...
Movies That Fuck: A List for Sensualists and Perverts
I was on Bluesky recently (bad idea — social media rots your brain and spirit) and I saw some young in’ say that Robert Eggers film, Nosferatu, was for real perverts. And it so perturbed me I decided ...
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December 31, 2024 at 4:16 PM
A superb list ✨
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“the left doesn’t have an answer to mentally unwell people on transit” yes, we do. Universal housing, universal healthcare. We have been openly and loudly saying this, don’t lie
December 27, 2024 at 4:05 PM
“the left doesn’t have an answer to mentally unwell people on transit” yes, we do. Universal housing, universal healthcare. We have been openly and loudly saying this, don’t lie
Labor exploitation and trafficking of undocumented migrants in the Champagne vineyards — keeping up with a very French tradition.
C’est un journal britannique qui révèle l’esclavage moderne dans la production de Champagne
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Champagne’s sordid secret: the homeless and hungry migrants picking grapes for France’s luxury winemakers
A Guardian investigation finds an underpaid, underfed workforce, some of whom are forced to sleep on the streets, exploited by a system of labour providers
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Labor exploitation and trafficking of undocumented migrants in the Champagne vineyards — keeping up with a very French tradition.
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Mayotte : Kawéni, le plus grand bidonville de France, rayé de la carte
Mayotte : Kawéni, le plus grand bidonville de France, rayé de la carte
Sur les 20 000 habitants estimés de ce quartier en périphérie de Mamoudzou, seuls 5 000 auraient rejoint des abris avant le passage du cyclone Chido, samedi, qui a balayé les habitats informels.
www.lemonde.fr
December 16, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Mayotte : Kawéni, le plus grand bidonville de France, rayé de la carte
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Deadline - 12/16. Please apply, please encourage friends/colleagues/students to apply. BFTSI has been- for me, at least- a magical place of theoretical exploration and intellectual friendship.
Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...
December 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Deadline - 12/16. Please apply, please encourage friends/colleagues/students to apply. BFTSI has been- for me, at least- a magical place of theoretical exploration and intellectual friendship.
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Very grateful to Justin Hosbey for this generous and close engagement with Dark Agoras.
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
J. T. Roane. Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.
How were the placemaking practices of rural Black southerners who migrated north post-slavery central to the rise of both dominant urbanism and the Black P
academic.oup.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Very grateful to Justin Hosbey for this generous and close engagement with Dark Agoras.
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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Dawoud Bey, Untitled (At Lake Erie), from the "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" series, which presents images of underground railroad sites in Ohio through which enslaved people traveled on their way to freedom in Canada
December 6, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Dawoud Bey, Untitled (At Lake Erie), from the "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" series, which presents images of underground railroad sites in Ohio through which enslaved people traveled on their way to freedom in Canada
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Was thankful to have the opportunity to think through my Black Studies genealogy on The Black Studies Podcast!
You can listen here:
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You can listen here:
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December 3, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Was thankful to have the opportunity to think through my Black Studies genealogy on The Black Studies Podcast!
You can listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...
You can listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/z...
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Dostojee (dir: Prasun Chatterjee) 💕
December 2, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Dostojee (dir: Prasun Chatterjee) 💕
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Liberals and fake ass radicals trust science until it’s the thousands of medical research/journal publications outlining the impacts of repeat COVID infections, the limitations of vaccines, and the effectiveness of masking.
December 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Liberals and fake ass radicals trust science until it’s the thousands of medical research/journal publications outlining the impacts of repeat COVID infections, the limitations of vaccines, and the effectiveness of masking.
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Sometime in late-spring early summer 2025, I'm looking to hire a Black creative to make some big renovations on my website drlaurian.com. Please drop some names #Blacksky #academicsky
Laurian R Bowles PhD – feminist. anthropologist. creative. teacher.
drlaurian.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Sometime in late-spring early summer 2025, I'm looking to hire a Black creative to make some big renovations on my website drlaurian.com. Please drop some names #Blacksky #academicsky
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Decisions have been made by @timeshighered.bsky.social to still use 'sub-saharan' despite a huge body of work by academics showing that this is very much a racialised/racist label. One day we will all see that *all* the lists they create, work to maintain white supremacism.
November 29, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Decisions have been made by @timeshighered.bsky.social to still use 'sub-saharan' despite a huge body of work by academics showing that this is very much a racialised/racist label. One day we will all see that *all* the lists they create, work to maintain white supremacism.
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I’m in this forum on queer nightlife repping performance studies 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾
SPECIAL ISSUE
Next summer, TSQ will release a special issue on queer nightlife edited by AminGhaziani.bsky.social. Read a first article from the special issue, a cross-disciplinary conversation on queer nightlife, at bit.ly/3Z7hrCb
What can sociologists uniquely contribute to this conversation?
Next summer, TSQ will release a special issue on queer nightlife edited by AminGhaziani.bsky.social. Read a first article from the special issue, a cross-disciplinary conversation on queer nightlife, at bit.ly/3Z7hrCb
What can sociologists uniquely contribute to this conversation?
November 26, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I’m in this forum on queer nightlife repping performance studies 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾
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Drake just signed a legal document acknowledging "Not Like Us" did him great harm.
Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Drake just signed a legal document acknowledging "Not Like Us" did him great harm.
Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
Is this not the biggest defeat in hip-hop history?
I’m convinced he has an humiliation kink at this point
“Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’”
www.billboard.com/pro/drake-um...
www.billboard.com/pro/drake-um...
November 26, 2024 at 1:02 AM
I’m convinced he has an humiliation kink at this point
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“naked acts” (1996) is the first underseen film i’ve been able to bring back into distribution. from discovering the film in fall 2022 to now has been the thrill of the lifetime.
join me in welcoming the fabulous film’s director to bluesky by following her! @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social ✨💫⭐️
join me in welcoming the fabulous film’s director to bluesky by following her! @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social ✨💫⭐️
November 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
“naked acts” (1996) is the first underseen film i’ve been able to bring back into distribution. from discovering the film in fall 2022 to now has been the thrill of the lifetime.
join me in welcoming the fabulous film’s director to bluesky by following her! @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social ✨💫⭐️
join me in welcoming the fabulous film’s director to bluesky by following her! @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social ✨💫⭐️