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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social

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Got my first pass pages!!! It’s coming!
A photo of my hand with pink glitter nail polish on the printed first pass pages for my book: А SECOND SIGHT HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF BLACK MEDIAMAKERS PUSH AMERICA TOWARD FREEDOM SARAH J. JACKSON MARINER BOOKS New York Boston
December 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Got new book mail 🥰✊🏽 thanks to @haymarketbooks.org
A photo of my left hand with a light rose-colored fingernail holding “We Are Each Other's Liberation Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities” EDITED BY RACHEL KUO, JAIMEE A. SWIFT & TD TSO The book has a bright yellow cover with red font and red flowers with green stems. The shipping packaging sits behind it. *Freshly opened new book smell is in this photo*
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Autocorrect texts from my partner
A screen shot of three text bubbles one after another. The read consecutively: God is cooking Good of cooking Food is cooking
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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And because I’m a nerd I just sit on social media taking screenshots for data. Here’s someone whose bio describes them as a “sound healer” cheering on Trump’s U.S. of AI videos that simultaneously include extremist and childish imagery. *Stefan voice*: this post has everything.
The sound healer says in response to reporting on trumps use of fake AI imagery that is both childish and pulls from historical fascist images: “Absolutely love it! He is mirroring the ridiculousness of the left and they can't take a joke!”
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Okay exhibit Z on why it’s ok to block randoms who pop in out of nowhere w/ problematic replies. I had time and tried b/c this account has a bunch of progressive keywords in the bio. Finally block before being called a bitch or wasting more time because I’ve walked this street many times.
Me: Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social • 10h "You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know," is one of those things you really don't want to say to someone who you are basically asking to keep your dirty secrets. This guy guy who has never interacted with me before and has a blue wave and rainbow flag emoji in his username: If the secret is "I'm too pretty to get anything done but a blowjob on a mushroom" then that secret is out. Me (quite kindly offering an opportunity to correct, but firmly): Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social • 1m Help me understand what you are doing here? It seems you are making a misogynist joke about one of the women in this story that implies attractive women are only good for sex acts? I believe no matter how detestable women are politically these kinds of comments are not okay. Am I missing something? Guy replies again/mansplains/get *his* feelings hurt: Yes. You are missing the fact that 47 only hires attractive women to do his dirty work and they are more than willing to do it. Which leads to the question of Why? Stop reading into people's comments and stop accusing people of things of whom you know nothing about. I respond: Ok, some of that is critique of Trump and the politics of women who work for him, what does that have to do with blowjobs? You kinda sound like you just hate women and want an excuse to make sexist comments in a random woman who you've never otherwise interacted with replies. Which is not okay. October 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM ..• Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social • 6m Your profile bio says you are against heteropatriarchy but you're in my replies all the sudden making appearance-based lewd comments about women so you can probably understand why I'm trying to find out if I missed something (seems I didn't) or if you are a bot or a troll or what. ... Guy responds: That’s your opinion.
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Natalie Portman with a shaved head in the film V for Vendetta, which is a movie not real life, gazes at the masked anarchist revolutionary V, who again, is not real life but based on a comic book character.
October 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Y’all putting jelly beans in your smoothies now?
A bad of jelly belly jelly beans for sale that is labeled “Smoothie Blend”
September 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This great article about Chicago "Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry," by Hunter, Pattillo, Robinson, and Taylor-- open access here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract Using Chicago as our case, this article puts forth a notion of black placemaking that privileges the creative, celebratory, playful, pleasurable, and poetic experiences of being black and being around other black people in the city. Black placemaking refers to the ways that urban black Americans create sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance through social interaction. Our framework offers a corrective to existing accounts that depict urban blacks as bounded, plagued by violence, victims and perpetrators, unproductive, and isolated from one another and the city writ large. While ignoring neither the external assaults on black spaces nor the internal dangers that can make everyday life difficult, we highlight how black people make places in spite of those realities. Our four cases – the black digital commons, black public housing reunions, black lesbian and gay nightlife, and black Little League baseball – elucidate the matter of black lives across genders, sexualities, ages, classes, and politics.
September 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Kinda feel like we should do a thread of Black girls resting in hammocks. Niche but important
My feet, in multicolored striped wool hiking socks, in a hammock tied to a tree in the woods of Maine.
September 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes # Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups. ...
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This is fine comic meme dog with his little hat and chai surrounded by flames
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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A photo of two dogs, a tiny chihuahua and a sato dog looking off into the woods from a deck. They are standing between two wicker chairs. Sorry I know democracy is at risk but this is cute right?
August 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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If you guys think I’m joking about being committed to this I tried to call those masked ice agents riding around in the back of an unmarked U-Haul and filming themselves jumping out on innocent people “absolute weirdo losers” in an Instagram comment last week and Zuck’s algorithm told me it was mean
A screen shot of a message I got from Instagram preventing me from posting the comment because it’s “hurtful and doesn’t follow community standards”
August 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It’s why I always show and discuss this compilation of mugshots of freedom riders on the huge projector screen on one of the first days of class. That and because baby John Lewis’ righteous smirk is so perfect.
36 mugshots of activists, Black and white comrades, many very young, who participated in the freedom rides, if I had more time I’d ID them all for you but baby John Lewis is twenty-one and smirking because he knows he’s right and the entire violent power of Jim Crow will never change his mind
July 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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We ran out of various other things so anyway, a watermelon spritz
A photo of two cocktails surrounded by some bottles and cans and a watermelon slice, the ingredients are amaro, lime juice, cheap prosecco, seltzer and watermelon chunks
July 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Here’s the latest two I took
A brown waste bin text to a trash bag on a cracked sidewalk. The waste bin has a sticker on it that says Republicans = Death Eaters A grouping of flyers on a concrete wall. The central ones are copies of the same flyer in Spanish and English warning people to be on the look out for ICE, a number to call and know your rights tips, because we keep each other safe
July 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Here is another example of one of these accounts. This account only follows women and obviously anyone claiming what this person claims to do does not put it in their bio on the internet lol
A fake bluesky account for a military general to writes about being a military general like no one actually would and apparently is also doing private and secret things which he is just casually revealing in his bio. Photo is of generic middle aged white guy with a stern face
July 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I find a lot of the bots on here to be very poorly executed and weird, but the researcher in me is also really curious about the bot genres. There are the fake celebrities, the romance scammers, the fake blue wave accounts, and a huge number of these fake military accounts
An obviously fake account because it’s Senator Bernie Sanders face on a body wearing a military uniform. The name on the account says “Buehler” but the tag on a different military uniform in the background says buemler. The accounts bio also reads as fake since active military don’t generally tell you all their business on the internet and there are likely ai or stolen and uncredited images in the shares. Also several accounts I’ve blocked like this only follow women bluesky users.
July 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Just popping in on Day 7 to anecdotally report on the mood about re the strike in my Philly hood: 1) the block listserv has formally agreed that going to drop your trash yourself is crossing a picket line and anyone who does it will be harshly judged, 2) these flyers appeared everywhere yesterday
A flyer on light pink paper lays on the street in Philadelphia. It features a mono-colored gray image of sesame streets Oscar the Grouch and reads “even Oscar says fuck Cherelle Parker” (for context Parker is the mayor who announced garage pickup would be suspended in response to AFSCME 33’s strike.)
July 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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And just for fun here is a photo of emo nineteen year old me on one of these chairs a friend just sent me this week
Me, a curly haired, brown skinned college student with bad posture who has probably been out all night wearing a puffy coat and jeans, sitting in a wicker chair like the one Huey Newton made famous.
June 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Happy skyline cleanse from me rn
An overlook view of gorgeous red rocks and a canyon at island in the sky in canyonlands national park. Mars-ish.
May 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Helped make a few more PhDs this year and yep this is one of the absolute best part
Congrats to Drs @arlenefernandez.bsky.social, Dr. @azsaneet.bsky.social, and Dr. Staci Jones
A photo of me flanked by three new WOC PhD graduates in their blue and red regalia and 8 sided caps. We are all grinning.
May 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Stumbled on this in my neighborhood cemetery: this woman was born on a cotton plantation in South Carolina, her family enslaved people (yes I checked); she died after my parents were born (I’m a millennial) & is buried alongside countless Black Philadelphians who were laid to rest here decades later
Headstone with a cross that reads: In Memory of Caroline Sidney Sinkler Daughter of Charles and Emily Wharton Sinkler Born April 23 1860 at Belvidere Plantation South Carelina Died May 5th 1949 In Philadelphia To You the Gates Of Paradise are Open
May 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This was me trying to figure out how to retrieve my laptop from this situation yesterday
A photo of two completely knocked out snoozing dogs next to a laptop on the couch. One dog is tiny and partially covered in a blanket she put herself under, so asleep her tongue hangs out. The other dog is bigger and sleeps soundly with his front legs crossed and nose nearly touching my MacBook. Both dogs are brown, the tiny one is lighter colored in shade. They are on a cream colored couch.
May 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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A screenshot of 5 “cardinal red” dresses with varied cuts and one white dress
May 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM