Learning without anguish, Teaching without fear, Creating without limits
Friday, 29 November 2024; 07:00am I know it will be hard to conjure up the wonderfulness of this precise feeling later, so let me do my best to set the scene of my ‘right now.’ The warmth and comfort of having spent the last two weeks at Home is not unlike the blissful heat of …
>> CONTENT WARNING: The first mini gallery (below) contains potentially distressing images from a laparoscopic surgery; the second mini gallery does not! LINK TO INSTAGRAM VIDEO: Roundtable Presentation: “From Survival to 'Thrival': How Female Blackademics Transform Necessity into Spaces of Community” (JoAnn Michel, NeMLA 2023; Buffalo, NY) FULL VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION: "Good afternoon! Thank you so …
Early mornings spent supine, Waking softly, slowly, with stretches and meditation. Gentle devotions meet fervent prayer, before Scrubbing and polishing, locking in a little more Youth with a potion of ceramides, hyrdogel, vitamin C, Retinaldehyde, something called squalane, and SPF. (Though I still suspect most of those to be as Make-believe as their strange names …
About four years ago, I created a blog with the intention of documenting and demystifying the long road to a doctoral degree by sharing my graduate journey with my public. My goal for grad school was not to be incredible, brilliant, or exceptional in this academic space. Rather, I just wanted to exist--an action that …
A polyphonic piece that traverses two centuries and an ocean, “Bijoux de Famille” (formerly, "Heirlooms") follows two parallel bloodlines—and their family treasures—in an episode that challenges what is, hints at what was, and imagines what could be. https://badblackademique.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bb-bijoux-de-famille.pdf "The Real Heirlooms" (Photos by Bad Blackadémique)
Dear You, First of all, I hope you're well. I have a few things to say about how you let our relationship fall and shatter, instead of putting it down gently. If you're reading this, I hope you're willing to listen, but I don't care if you're not. Rather than carry these unsaid words, I …
I’ve only dreamt thus far— of the step beyond this, the limit of my understanding. Of the taste of touch, of the scent of tenderness that punctuates timeless moments of embrace. I want to wake up. To finally feel it. All of it. From fleeting nudges to whispers below the ear to the seamless caress. …
One of my seminars from this week inspired the #RealTalk (in French: #ParlonsFranchement) that I do with my students every week (see featured photo). This week marks one FULL YEAR in some kind of/all kinds of lockdown & quarantine, as a result of Covid-19. I will never forget where I was/what I was doing/who I …
This paper, "Steppingstones: A Demonstration of Black Feminist, Literary Work on the Path to Public Scholarship," is an active work-in-progress. It was originally written in December 2020, with the goal of being presented at this conference, Disruptions and Eruptions (26-27 February 2021) and also as a final paper for a Black feminist and womanist theory …
https://badblackademique.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bbh-test-1.pdf This is an excerpt from the "Beauty and Black Hair" writing workshop that took place via ZOOM on 24 October 2020. Organized by the Dominican Writers Association and hosted/moderated by Ariana Brown (@arianathepoet). Prompts (in bold) by Ariana Brown and original responses (in italics) by BadBlackadémique.
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