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Sarah Jane Cervenak
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Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’

Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’

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Writing
Photo of an open book of with white page and abstract drawing of black squiggly lines (from Renee Gladman’s book Plans for sentences) along with the copy of Toni Morrison’s Beloved that is red (Random House) and a book named Calamities by Renee Gladman that is white with black letters
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This day, in September 2016, I felt honored to be on that stage and, almost 10 years later, I am so happy about how the conversation continues to travel
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Receiving this book made my day

‘Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation, by Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, Nadia Ayala Kisukidi, and Rinaldo Walcott, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe @dukepress.bsky.social

All the flowers 💐💐💐 @hystericalblkns.bsky.social @blacklikewho.bsky.social
Book cover of ‘Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation, by Dele Adeyemo, Natalie Diaz, Nadia Ayala Kisukidi, and Rinaldo Walcott, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe
March 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“This is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”—Toni Cade Bambara, whose birthday is today 💐💐💐
“Salvation is the Issue” By Toni Cade Bambara “….how it was; how it be. Passing it along in the relay. This is what I work to do; to produce stories that save our lives”
March 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Duke UP is having a flash sale for today and tomorrow, if interested in picking up any of my books.❤️❤️with thanks and appreciation ❤️❤️
Book covers of ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology and Ungiven Life’ by Sarah Jane Cervenak And ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ by Sarah Jane Cervenak
March 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Sending a bouquet for your day, with love.
Purple, pink roses and yellow mums
March 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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“But sharing is our means, the earth’s means in us, and our means in earth.”

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, All Incomplete

Little makeshift art gallery I saw where you can leave and take art ❤️❤️
I love these little makeshift libraries I see on my walks…this one an art gallery where you can leave and take some made beauty
March 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Found this photo of a flower collage I made during COVID quarantine. Need to return to making these kinds of bouquets…sending love for your day
Photo collage of purple, chartreuse, pink and green flowers
March 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Some softness and beauty for your afternoon.

Wanted to share a photo of an old sewing I did with a quote by Dr. Christina Sharpe; “Beauty is a method”

#beautyeveryday
#respondingtothecall
Red, orange and yellow cross-stitched bird with brown fabric in their mouth for nest-making. Underneath the bird are the words “Beauty is a method” - Christina Sharpe stitched with brown thread (the same color as nest material)
March 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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With love
A magenta circular flower
March 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Responding to the #beautyeveryday call
Pink flower
March 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

Octavia E. Butler
Yellow crocus flower
March 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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More love for the afternoon
A bright yellow flower
March 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Good morning. Sending everyone love
A purple pink flower
March 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Returning to this important essay by Sara Ahmed from 2015. The detention of Mahmoud Khalil and the anti-DEI terribleness is part of the same refusal to learn on the part of educator. To insist on education as domination
The article “Against Students” by Sara Ahmed published in New inquiry. Available online
March 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Another kind of help and mutual aid…some beauty
A bright pink flower
March 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Love from Greensboro
“Free Gaza” sticker posted to a power box
March 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Event flier
Event flier: Michelle Lanier and Destiny Hemphill at UNC-Greensboro. The event is: “Black Feminist and Womanist Ecoaesthetics: Craft, Ceremony and the South” at the Claxton Room, Elliott University center (3/19 at 5pm
March 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This book is great

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
Red cover of ‘Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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From the talk “The Black Outdoors: Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten with J. Kameron Carter and me at Duke University, September 23, 2016. Posted by Jacob Wren on Instagram

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“Anybody who thinks that they can understand how terrible the terror has been, without understanding how beautiful the beauty has been against the grain of the terror, is wrong.’-Fred Moten from the talk “The Black Outdoors: Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten with J. Kameron Carter and me at Duke University, September 23, 2016. Posted by Jacob Wren on Instagram
March 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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When I was at University of Richmond, Dr. Nathan Snaza kindly recommended this essay I wrote in 2015 to his students and colleagues…about what it means to teach in the midst of state sanctioned and abetted racist, sexist, and transphobic violence.

Happy to send a pdf if interested
Article title “On Not Teaching about Violence: Being in the Classroom After Ferguson”
March 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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some atmospheric beauty

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A large fluffy cloud against bright blue sky
March 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I love this painting within which she receives her flowers
February 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Today!!

Two authors (and a co-editor) of books in Black Outdoors book series❤️❤️❤️ in conversation about the great Toni Morrison @dukepress.bsky.social

Honored
““After the Clearing: Toni Morrison’s Ecopoetics – Sharon Holland and Sarah Jane Cervenak In Conversation” : Humanities Commons (Humanities Building: University of Richmond) 4: 30pm
February 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM