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Dr. Robin Mitchell

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Historian @UB_History . Author #V énusNoire; writing bio of @MmeLouverture . Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency; ‘21-22 @Radinstitute Fellow; #FrenchHistorianShoes .

Buffalo, NY

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@ParisNoire

Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

Hey! This 58yo fat black girl who flunked out of college at age 17, went back at 32 just earned tenure and promotion! The ancestors know what gratitude is in my heart (Mom, you betta be smiling). Thanks to mentors & brilliant colleagues, friends & family for getting me here.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

5 years

I have a “ shit happens” clause in my syllabi. You invoke the clause on one assignment and get a 3-day extension. No explanation required. It cuts down on the need to lie or divulge personal business. #twitterstorians

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3 years

@WendyMolyneux Sigh…

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4 years

Apparently this is what 58, tenured and promoted on a random Thursday looks like. And, yeah, red. #BuzzedandColored #HolyShit

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1 year

@ModestyQueen19 Pink was considered a color more suited to boys until the 20th century. Colors are socially constructed. Read something. Anything.

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3 years

Ok, I just burst into tears for no real reason at all. And trying to figure how to get to Paris in November during a pandemic. Whew.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

@theferocity @e_alexjung He is so so so pretty

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

6 years

I lost my mom a bit over a month ago. I have been thinking of her so much. Then this arrived today. I hope she would be proud of this moment (and of me). I present: my book cover.

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1 year

Come for the Orientalism, stay for the academic misconduct. Holy shit what a rabbit hole.

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1 year

Meet the sexy Egyptology scholars who dress like Indiana Jones characters

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

9 months

36 when I graduated undergrad 48 when I finished grad school 49 when I got my first TT job 58 when I earned tenure 58 when I published my book 60 when I earned tenure again 6? when my second book publishes Fuck the haters.

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I was 36 when I finished grad school. 37 when I got the job at Rhodes. 39 when I got on the tenure track. 43 when the book got published. 44 when I earned tenure. Just putting this out here for the young heads on this journey worried about trajectory.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

@JLoCharts @JLo @MarcAnthony She’s talking to the father of her children. This isn’t that complicated. Dang, folks, just say you don’t like and move on.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

1 year

It is with incredible gratefulness that I can FINALLY announce that I have accepted the College of Arts & Sciences Endowed Professorship & a position as associate professor in the History Dept (affiliated with Dept of Africana & American Studies) at the University at Buffalo!

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2 years

@MediumSizeMeech And it’s amazing. Right until the moment that baby clawed your face off.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

Ok, Twitterverse, you aren't ready for my head shots. I'm not ready for my head shots. . @cnordlingphoto , thank you thank you thank you.

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3 years

Got him 3 mos after mom died. When I cried, he sat in the crook of my neck. He looked disappointed in us every bloody day & loved us without reserve. Rescue said he was 9 but really about 12 (I loved on him with my whole heart for 3 years). Mortimer, you were the best dog ever.

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10 months

I’m incredibly proud and relieved. And, for the record, tenure was just as stressful the second time around. I hope @UBuffalo likes me because I’m never leaving. Like, ever.

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5 years

Have you ever, I mean, ever in your life, seen something so beautiful? I’ll stop crying in a sec.

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3 years

Please stop what you're doing and listen to this. OMG, the pride and love! Shut up, you're crying!

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so i told my parents we were making a video for extra credit but what they actually read was my first acceptance into optometry school

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 months

Black doctors found illnesses that white doctors didn’t even bother to look for. And a Black dentist found mercury from 2 bad fillings seeping into my system yesterday.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

In European history grad class stating our interests. I state mine. Guy after me stares at me, smirks and says “ I myself don’t study race because I actually study Europe.” #BlackintheIvory

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

6 months

Unpaid job that requires a doctorate. Some fucking nerve, UCLA.

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2 years

What I believe on this day: friends keep me sane. Gut busting laughter is everything. Self care is mandatory. Missing my mom never fades. Healing might just be possible. What I know: I’m enough. This is what 60 (!!) looks like! On y va!

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

Box of perfectly gorgeous books! I’m gonna sit here and, you know, stare at them!!! For the rest of my life.

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1 year

Time for the only cartoon that matters

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2 years

Would you teach a graduate level class on micro histories? What would you include as a must read? #twitterstorians

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

2 years

Gentle Reminder: the #Harvard debacle is not only a colossal shit show but incredibly triggering on so many levels. It’s okay not to steep yourself in it like a teabag. #PTSD #SelfCare

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1 year

I’m reading about the torture techniques used by the French against Black rebels during the Haitian Revolution (for my book) and, just, you know, send good thoughts my way today. I’m struggling.

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6 years

@sheilakathleen My mom died in January. My students saved me. Food, a sense of purpose, bad jokes; they just took over and willed me to keep going. Meals just appeared so did plants and booze and candy. They just rallied around me and loved me.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 months

@cubbytheejett @TheBaddestMitch That gym says it’s a no judgment space. She should lose her membership there!

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

I watched the coup from the ER parking lot. Husband finally admitted after car accident this morning. Can’t see him. But doc said he’s resting. Bit overwrought right now.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

This is me. Sitting in my car in absolute silence. Eating a hamburger. Far away from my house. Where my husband lives.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

I’m not crying, you’re crying!! Thanks to @PrincetonUPress @priyasnelson @RadInstitute and Chris Rogers for this incredible opportunity. Grateful doesn’t even begin to cover it. Look momma, I’m gonna be in a bookstore! 🥰

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3 years

Oh holy shit!!!!’

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@ParisNoire @L_Historienne

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

2 years

Time for my yearly cartoon

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

Some brilliant historian on here called this “the long 2020” and OMG, right?!

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3 years

This! Boyfriend was like STFU and learn something, you ignorant idiots.

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After being asked about Critical Race Theory, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley delivers an answer every American should watch.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

2 years

Here’s me wearing my ⁦ @RadInstitute ⁩ t-shirt. Celebrating a moment of accomplishment and joy. Posting it again because hopefully it will perplex and annoy some sour academic who pulls the wings off of flies.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

10 months

If it is possible to tell you the squeal of joy I just made. And then I started crying. #HistorianLife #Books

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9 months

Office is done and I’m so happy I Could just burst! #Grateful

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11 months

Appt check-in: did you have a nice holiday yesterday? Me: yes, thank you. WL: it’s nice they did that for you.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

@awkward_duck Flunked out of college at age 17, had about a thousand jobs including secretary, marketing at SFO hotels, temp jobs, and the stock exchange. Went back to college at 32. PhD at 58.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

@ConceptualJames So, you’re just kind of an asshole, then, James? Cool.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

2 years

Just look at this

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With Regards, BW

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La Vénus africaine (African Venus) by Charles Cordier,(1852)

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2 years

So what had happened was I’ve been bleeding most of the week. Bad last 2 days. 1st procedure didn’t fix it. Doc sent me to ER, and now, post emergency hysterectomy, and pain meds, I’m in bed eating applesauce and writing you people. Thanks for the good thoughts! I’m really ok!!

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2 years

@kjhealy Well now you have a new association. Or you can simply keep scrolling?

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2 years

Ok, my new dress for my presentation today!

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

9 months

Gentle reminder as we work on syllabi:

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

5 years

I have a “ shit happens” clause in my syllabi. You invoke the clause on one assignment and get a 3-day extension. No explanation required. It cuts down on the need to lie or divulge personal business. #twitterstorians

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

1 month

I think if you agree to review a book (that we do as free service to the profession), the publisher should give you a physical copy if you ask for it. Imma die on that hill. #Jeez

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

And in a move that will surprise no one: California State University is remote for spring 2021.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

Can we agree to expel any Republican who begins speaking with the phrase, "Dr. Martin Luther King once said..."

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

My power went out in the beginning of class and I got knocked off zoom. When I got back in the room? They'd chose a leader and WERE CONDUCTING DISCUSSION of the book. You can't have them, THEY ARE MINE! #HistoryRocks #SoDoHistoryStudents

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

You guys!!! A gift from one of my students! It is incredible! I’m not crying, you’re crying!

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

4 years

3 syllabi done, 3 class completely set up modules done and on Canvas. I rule!

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

2 years

News for folks who want to teach my book, Vénus Noire: @UGAPress has officially released a project page, lesson plans, & teaching guide! Thanks to @brennen_hauser for spending his summer creating this masterpiece. Check it out, it's gorgeous:

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Vénus Noire | UGA Press

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural...

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3 years

For real

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4 years

@AidaSansGene The movie is problematic. There are some very good books out there, including, arguably, mine. Here is one.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

1 year

I found my high school senior picture. At the time, I thought I was grossly fat. I was a size 14, FFS. I would kill to be that size again. So to this youngster, who still had her edges, I officially apologize. You looked great!

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3 years

Guess my Race & Royalty course will be relevant after all? I wish any of this was shocking. When Emma Thynn become Britain's first black marchioness, her future MIL asked her son: “Are you sure about what you’re doing to 400 years of bloodline?” #HarryandMeghan

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

10 months

This is what mailing 1/2 your draft manuscript (154 MFing pages) on your birthday looks like!

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9 months

The moment (10 minutes ago) I cut off all my hair using a 1 guard and a no guard and officially entered my badass villain era!

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3 years

I felt like rings. Can I pull it off? I like the look.

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1 year

@keyleemiracle That wig is amazing on her. She is going to wear it every day. No brainer if you can afford it.

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6 years

@sheilakathleen Amen. And they were so sweet about it: oh the deli accidentally gave us an extra sandwich! I will love them ‘til I die.

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1 year

One of my finest moments as a teacher. The pics were epic!

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2 years

Super happy to officially announce that I'll be a Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the College of Arts & Sciences for the 2022-2023 academic year at University at Buffalo (History Department)! I get the year to write my book on Suzanne Simone Baptiste. So so so grateful!

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1 year

@rgay I tell my students that my undivided attention isn’t something you want. And a plagiarized paper will get you that. I It’s disrespectful period. But turning one in to you just boggles my mind. Like, seriously?!

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2 years

Peace out Cambridge!!!

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2 years

I would be arrested because no

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Fifty Shades of Whey

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2 years

Imagine you get on a plane and you have to listen to this

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3 years

TFW someone accuses you of humble bragging about your book: 24x36 about to go on the wall!

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10 months

Just had a medical moment (and a misdiagnosis) where I was dismissed by a white male doctor (as being sick bc of fatness) and then rediagnosed by a woman doctor of color who easily found a potentially devastating problem. I’m still livid about it. Folks don’t care if we die.

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Affirmative action 🧵: Yesterday I had to look up my endocrinologist’s office info to get a referral. I happened upon the fact that she graduated Columbia 5 years after I did. Which meant I was part of the team that admitted her, a team that regularly acted affirmatively.

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4 years

I’ve been invited to give talks at Oxford and Cambridge next year, and I really wish my mom was here to see it. She’d just be tickled pink.

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2 months

Ladies and gentleman! I’m So Unbelievably proud to announce this! Press release soon but for now, I’m Not crying @alisaplant you’re crying!

Noir(e): Race and Belonging in the Afro-French World - LSU Press

Series Editor: Robin Mitchell, University at Buffalo Noir(e): Race and Belonging in the Afro-French World centers Black people and Blackness in the

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2 years

Took my longest walk post surgery (with permission of my doc) and got my nails done. 2500 steps in 29 degree weather. Yes, I am about to pass out. And very proud of myself. But totally gonna pass out.

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4 years

I told my students I simply couldn't talk about violence against black bodies today in class as planned and they sent me sweet notes over Zoom and now I'm crying. Is this fucking day over yet?

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4 years

Americans will officially be banned from entering EU nations. We totally deserve it and I’m heartbroken just the same.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

3 years

Lord have mercy, writing samples and actual letters of rec should wait for the second round. It’s an unnecessary burden for applicants in the first round. #rant

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6 months

Since someone asked me, the only proper response to “oh my goodness, you’ve gained weight!” is “oh my God, you have too, but I wasn’t going to say anything because your body size has nothing to do with me and also that’s so rude! How are you otherwise?” #HappyFriday

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4 years

So, like, day after tomorrow, I’m officially an associate professor with tenure, and I woke up in my feelings about it. I am truly lifted up and surrounded by my ancestors and I’m so so grateful.

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Dr. Robin Mitchell

2 years

I’m wondering if @RadInstitute might notice if I just stay here forever? Like, I’m already on direct deposit and my office is hella decorated already. Maybe if nobody says anything? I mean, does this look like someone who needs to go home in May?!? #squatter

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1 year

I feel this in my soul

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Quarantine Clean

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I ain't got no more passwords in me bruh

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3 years

@awkward_duck Ooops! Doctorate at 49. Tenure at 58.

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8 months

A few years ago, I made a statement at a university event that if you died tomorrow, they'd have your replacement before you were buried; some admins lost their minds. I tell new hires to protect your health (and use myself as a prime example if you don't).

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4 years

I renew my pledge to Skype into your class if you’re teaching my book! And sometimes I’m even charming! #twitterstorians #AcademicTwitter #V énusNoire

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10 months

So annoying. She looks exactly the same, just older. Because, you know, she's older. And looks amazing.

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um, she looks like the 71yo version of the 30yo woman on the right.

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3 years

One of the original Radcliffe classrooms! Yay to women’s colleges!

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1 year

@DrFrankRoberts Obligated? No. But if I can realease it earlier I will. It often allows students more time to get books cheaper than bookstore, and as a nervous student, it allowed me to map my semester out.

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6 months

This isn’t even a humble brag; but I have written 70 pages since September (in the midst of the dumpster fire of the world). Sometimes you gotta print it out to see. I almost cried. They are shitty pages but pages nonetheless. #TeamSuzanne

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4 years

Every office I’ve ever had. Sitting behind my desk, working. Someone at the door. Is Dr Mitchell coming back soon? #BlackintheIvory

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4 years

I got nothing left folks. Beyond exhausted. Frozen with fatigue, sadness, and anxiety. Cancelling classes tomorrow and Signing off for a few days. I’m fine; just need rest and silence. Peace.

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3 years

This is breathtaking, @BisaButler , truly breathtaking. @NMAAHC

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2 years

Seven years ago today I married The Boy. And we’re still alive. Barely.

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4 months

I am so so so so angry about this.

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Oh Harvard. FFS. I am just absolutely livid that President Gay is resigning. They were always going to come for the leader who’s a brilliant Black woman.

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6 years

Venus Noire with @UGAPress coming end of this year!

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2 years

I’m never experiencing it again. Mediocre white man speaks… Asshole.

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3 years

I walked into @OldNavy today and everything I saw was also in my plus size, in the same section as every other size. Dresses, leggings, jeans, workout gear. Everything. If you have ever been relegated to a rack in the corner (if that) you will understand how meaningful this is.

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10 months

So sorry I missed the @BerksConference , but I am just over here enjoying my super easy professional life as a Black Lady Historian. #Berks2023

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3 years

Omg screaming.

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I can’t cope with the disappointment in his face when he realises he’s been caught!! 😭 GIVE HIM ALL THE FOOD!

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