🏳️🌈Professor & Writer • Originally from Leland, MS, birthplace of Kermit the Frog • Views mine• he/him/his
Atlanta, GA
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Please go read my conversation with @jerichobrown about the great Reginald Shepherd @SouthernSpaces! ❤️
southernspaces.org/2024/poet…
“The possibility of suffering being redeemed by art, being made meaningful and thus real … is still vital to me. Art reminds us of the uniqueness, particularity, and intrinsic value of things, including ourselves.” —Reginald Shepherd, “Why I Write”
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ALT Collage titled “Shepherd: In His Own Words, created by Eric Solomon.
Happy to have been a part of this conversation with Jericho about a poet who means a great deal to us both. ❤️
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🦊🎃Greetings from our Feast! In Halloween class with Professor Mr. Fox, we relished in our careful close readings & thoughtful discussion of literary texts. There were Halloween treats & intellectual feats!
#fantasticmrfox #halloween
Today is #NationalComingOutDay. Whether you’re out in the country or out in the city, whether you’re *out* at all, may you have the courage to live your life fully & invite those you trust & love to witness your blossoming ❤️🌼🌸🌻🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈☀️
#pride #queerhistorymonth
Day One ✅ Greeted over coffee this morning by my deer Mom and baby neighbors. 2 lectures delivered by 10 am. Office hours & meeting with phenomenal teaching assistants by noon… now, writing time. ❤️
#AcademicTwitter
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We're gearing up for multiple events this fall! Hope you can join us! @CrystalWilki @eesolomo
More info: piedmont.edu/lillian-e-smith…
Believe (in) Joy. A better politics is possible.
"I believe in a better politics, one that finds us at our most decent and open and brave." —Pete Buttigieg
#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #DNC #ChooseJoy #CoachWalz #ForThePeople #PeteButtigieg
Looking forward to celebrating the legacy & wisdom of Lillian E. Smith.
“You ask me what we want. And I say, who are we?” —Lillian E. Smith, Killers of the Dream
Make sure to join us at @PiedmontGA Mason-Scharfenstein Museum this fall as we celebrate Lillian E. Smith. Featuring presentations by Mark Albertin, Hal Jacobs, and @eesolomo
@KeriLeighMerrit
Thursday, we celebrated the final session of our seminar “James Baldwin’s America” for the semester. We took this photograph after having our final discussion on Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen & reflecting on the semester together. One student propped up her water /1🧵
as long as life lasts, and I would not have to risk sounding so grandiose were I not under the necessity of attempting to excavate the meaning of the word community—which, as I have understood it, simply means our endless connection with, and responsibility for, each other” /6 – at Oxford, GA
#jamesbaldwin #jamesbaldwinamerica #jamesbaldwinquote #community #atl #atlantageorgia #emory #oxfordcollege end 🧵 – at Oxford, GA
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These arrests are antithetical to the mission of higher ed. Our institutions exist to foster robust exchanges of ideas & open dialogue in service of knowledge & understanding. Sometimes that includes open dissent. Peaceful campus protests should never be met w/ violence.
Here’s @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters
🌈Say gAyTL! Go give this important document a read! & please share. I am honored to have been a small part of this process & project! Thanks especially to my fellow members of the Historic Atlanta LGBTQ+ Historic Preservation Advisory Board.
drive.google.com/file/d/1eSF… #queerhistory
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The Supreme Court just used a totally made-up case to greatly expand the right to discriminate against same-sex couples huffpost.com/entry/same-sex-…