Our keynotes for the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference this February here in New Orleans:

Tiffany E. Barber (University of California, Los Angeles)
Racquel Gates (Columbia University)
Zaire Lanier (writer and narrative designer)
Kristen Warner (Cornell University)

We've added another keynote to Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture:

Dr. Tiffany E. Barber (University of California, Los Angeles), author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation.

CFP below!

Has your toddler demonstrated a growing interest in prosody or postcritique? Have we got the doll for you...

We're coming back! CFP below.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

(I'm guessing we're doing psychoanalysis rather than CBT. Neato.)

This was my comedy studies Super Bowl: Brittney Michelle Edmonds, @dfmorgan.bsky.social, Bambi Haggins, and J Finley discussing critical Black humor studies last week at Pomona College.

Out this week: Victoria Ford Smith and I edited a collection on children making culture as writers, artists, actors, activists, and content creators.

Check it out, and please ask your libraries to buy it.

Always an exciting day when one of our writing group gets their book out into the world... 😍

Congratulations, @alfredmartin.bsky.social! It's gorgeous! 🥂

😔😔

Cinephilic joy: UT Austin has bound volumes of the entire run of Premiere

Back in the archives, working on Book 3 (maybe 4)...

A good mail day—and what a beaut!

Congratulations, @kfortmueller.bsky.social and @lucimarz.bsky.social!