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✨my first peer-reviewed academic publication, “catchin’ strays: on pet negroes, the black domestic, and the politics of comfort,” is now online on @SCquarterly doi.org/10.1353/scu.20…
Jordan Taliha
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Jordan Taliha
@theineffability
east coast lit(erary) thot. phd candy-date in english + history of science @harvard
- this painting is "blue monday" by the late chicago artist miss annie lee!I let out of a gasp of relief knowing that this famous painting was actually painted by a dark skin woman 😭 it’s so sad most of the time dark skin non men are depicted it is by people who don’t look like us. Giving her all the roses
- not 40 sections and a mule
- i just known whitney would’ve supported will after the slap! mother loved a lil fight 💀Will Smith is a STAN ok 😭
00:00 - finally accepting how sensitive i am after years of trying to deny it out of fear that i would not be met with tenderness. turns out it’s not about what anyone is willing to give me, but what i am willing to honor in myself without shame or equivocation.
- happy to officially announce that i am pullin an elle woods this fall 💅🏾
- damn two light brights in the hot seat this week? the tan towers have fallen! i repeat, the tan towers have fallen!LMAOOOOOOO
- my girl tara on true blood got the evil eye from sookie for asking bill compton the question everyone should’ve been asking a 173-year-old white man in lousiana
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what's the craziest shit you've seen a black character villanized for? - it’s giving: “emancipation waits for no one, and neither do our summer juneteenth discounts! use code: SLAVENOMORE to get 3/5ths off your order 💅🏾”
- at his best and worst, druski is an anthropologist!Every Nail Salon has a male nailtech like this 💅🏼😂
00:00 - Replying to @onlychyld“act like a lady, think like a stallion”
- so my mama and i agreed that the new color purple cut out two very important lines that were really central to our understanding of celie’s condition 1) sophia: “what you oughtta do is bash mister's head open, and think about heaven later” 2) shug: “you sure is ugly”
