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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Black wh0res, beached whales, and demonic grounds

PLEASE SHARE!: As a UT Austin African and African Diaspora Studies PhD alum, I stand in solidarity with the faculty, staff and current undergraduate and graduate students of the departments of Black Studies, Gender Studies, and Latino Studies. I have had the pleasure of interacting with all of these departments and stand with my fellow UT Austin Black Studies grad alums as we say “ABSOLUTELY NOT!” to the elimination of these departments. UT Austin AADS helped me sharpen as not only a scholar/thinker and educator but also as an artist and someone involved deeply in community organizing. I have developed life-long bonds with the people who come from this department and can genuinely say that I would not be the person that I am today without the friends and colleagues that I have made that adhere to and honor this great tradition of Black Study. Without this program, I would not have become as specialized in diasporic notions of Black feminist, queer and trans studies. Without this program, I would not have been trained to ask critical questions of myself, these orders and the world. Without this program, my teaching would have been uncritical, unimaginative and without rigor. And without this program I would not have become a Black Sexualities tenure-track professor. Though challenging, UT Austin African and African Diaspora Studies made me PREPARED. Myself and others will NOT stand for this and we ask all who will listen and all who are willing to support by spreading this information and saying NO WAY and ABSOLUTELY NOT to the elimination of these NECESSARY DEPARTMENTS. WE WILL FIGHT THIS! Do not allow for UT Austin to cower to state pressure and eliminate necessary departments that consider the survival of our people. #saveUT #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

This is definitely a p*rno. Sure, we ask that it is engaged critically, but we have 0 control over that and frankly you do not need my consent. So though you do not need my consent, I still need yours.

A year ago, @blair_ebonyyy and I finished a film. There was a lot of conversation regarding how we share it with everyone. We’ve decided to share it now.

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This is completely fine!

I really appreciate you so much for lifting this up.

This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered.

Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.

Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case.

This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.

This is why we have to be careful about how we discuss s3x w0rk or people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy. I am certain that Cassie does not perceive herself as a prostitute, but a survivor of s3x trafficking but look at the implication. We have to decriminalize s3x w0rk.

That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.

There is no accountability, there is no safety, there is no honesty, there is no desire that will be quenched, there is no healing, and that is precisely why the state creates the fantasy of the promise that they could actually satisfy those needs/desires.

But the system convinces us that somehow they can meet those desires, but even after that that there is still disatisfaction even if it comes in waves.

It makes people go searching as they are driven by a sensation that will never be quenched. Your heart hurts, you're never satisfied and you will never be satisfied.

Think about the emotional turmoil that this system causes with the mythic promise of justice and finality. And when a verdict like this happens?

Re: F*ck Diddy and Prisons

For context. I don't support prisons. But we need to be clear thatthis is why the state, the "criminal" justice system has got to go. The way that they can bend, pull, redirect, obfuscate, exhaust?

Though, it will be part of the Black Femmescapes Special Issue (I will share those details as soon as I get that) it is now available through open access with Taylor & Francis. This essay is only a fraction of what will be included in my forthcoming book with Duke.