BLACK BOYS LIKE ME: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging .
Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2013
- Tweets23.2K
- Following819
- Followers6.4K
- Likes14.5K
“The most unsympathetic thing you can do is think you have empathized with those of a radically different background. You can easily end up hurting them.” - Rodrigo Crenshaw
Did a pod. The pod’s called UnMASKING with Male Educators. We talked about how to carry out hearts into education. And love and the refusal to lower the ideal of what that may look like in classrooms. And some more. Please tap in if you have some time.
Matthew R. Morris retweeted
New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own?
‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magaz…
You know I just learned today, like committed to memory that the order of towns after leaving Scarborough goes Pickering, Ajax, Whitby.
For some reason I always that Ajax was a little small town righttt between like Kingston road and Whites.
Grateful for BBLM top be shortlisted for this prestigious honour.
Shortlist Announced for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing library.stanford.edu/news/sh…
Why the ‘boy crisis’ is more than just a school problem youtu.be/4nMsmWSXFo0?si=NX7Z… via @YouTube
We went from not trusting the red or blue squiggly underlines in word documents to copy and pasting whole paragraphs and essays off of ChatGPT.
We got so hollow so quickly...
Committed to supporting how they come into a holistic selfhood. They deserve to land softly. Deeply committed to every splash.
Thank you Seven Oaks School District in Winnipeg for bringing me back to my roots. Teaching the youth.
Committed to creating experiences that represent a truthfulness of and about Black youth. To creating space that includes their friendships and their contradictions and the ways they think about where they are now and also the ways they wrestle with the future, their future.
The 6 eras of NBA fashion — from restrained to radical (Mitchell S. Jackson | TEDNext 2025) ted.com/talks/mitchell_s_jac… via @TEDTalks
Got to throw verb tense consistency out the window when the very sentences I’m trying make art with are grappling with time to begin with.
Most things are optional. You decide. What is important, worth time. Worth centering. Worth making art about. Or for. Worth celebrating. Or criticizing. Or both. Worth a conversation. Worth pushing that conversation forward. All choices about what to hold onto and what to let go.
What makes a dream different than a memory? Both exist in the past tense. Both remain vanished until retrieved.
Yup and they call it “grit” or “resilience” when they make it. They value it when it comes to post secondary. But what about all the ones that don’t make it that far?
