Speaker, Author, Cultural Critic
It was an honor to record a 3-minute video about From Slave Cabins to the White House for the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) in 2020. I still stand by this, and the USA keeps showing why understanding this dynamic matters!!! #BlackHistoryMonth #HomemadeCitizenship #CiteBlackWomen #WellReadBlackGirl
Stunning, isn’t it? This water took Harriet Jacobs to (more) freedom. In November 2022, I traveled to her hometown of Edenton, North Carolina, and the experience lives with me!
I have submitted final grades so I can turn my attention to the copy edits for my Broadview Press edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. What an honor to help readers more fully appreciate her remarkable life and legacy.
My edition features a chronology of Jacobs’s life and a thorough introduction. I also reproduced her narrative but added footnotes (explaining all that might be unfamiliar to today’s readers) and I provided six appendices.
Coming at you this summer!
Table of Contents here.
When I was the guest co-host on The Karen Hunter Show on 9/26, we got into a very interesting conversation! It’s a 3-hour show, so this is just a snippet, but it will give you a sense. Please feel free to share! As you’ll hear, it aligns with my mentoring and teaching, which (this semester) includes QUEER OF COLOR LIFE & LIFE WRITING.
The amazing Karen Hunter invited me to co-host the August 22nd episode of her show! It’s a live Sirius XM radio show, from 3pm to 6pm Monday through Friday. Video clips are just a snippet, but they are sometimes placed on YouTube so that people who don’t subscribe to Sirius XM can get a sense. Here’s the clip. I hope you’ll watch and share!
I had a great time talking about From Slave Cabins to the White House on the Karen Hunter Show. It’s a Sirius XM radio show, so this interview was live, and then video clips are placed on YouTube so that people who don’t subscribe to Sirius XM can get a sense. Here’s the clip. I hope you’ll watch and share!
What a gift to be on Bonnets at Dawn, a longstanding podcast with amazing hosts! Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman, authors of Why She Wrote, blow my mind with the work they do in so many forms! Once we recorded this conversation, my progress on the Broadview Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl picked up steam.
Heads up: I misspoke by saying that Mr. Sands was in his 40s—he was approaching 30—but my point stands: he was a grown-ass man when Jacobs/Linda was 15. Anyway, I hope you’ll listen and share widely! There’s so much to appreciate about Harriet Jacobs and Frances Harper, and we discuss both!!! Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Some of us celebrate Women’s History Month all year long. The Lost Ladies of Lit podcast is in that number! And some of us celebrate Black History Month all year long, too. So, what a treat to share the amazing Frances E. W. Harper with their audience! Hosts Kim Askew and Amy Helmes set up an amazing conversation!
Please listen anywhere you get your podcasts, including here. And please share widely!
Also, Broadview Press is offering a 20% discount on my edition of Iola Leroy. Use code iola20 when buying directly from the press. The code is good through the end of April 2022.
Because we had such a good time nerding out together—and because examples just don’t stop—Lurie’s team had me back to continue our discussion. The show has now started a YouTube page, so clips appear there so people can actually SEE how this went. (Below) However, the full discussion is via audio here.
On February 1st, I had the honor of starting Black History Month on Sirius XM’s Lurie Daniel Favors Show. Black History Month also started with bomb threats at HBCUs around the country. The USA is nothing if not consistent! Delving into white mediocrity and know-your-place aggression is therefore always relevant.
My conversation with Lurie was urgent but also a delight. You can hear the full audio here.
Many (kind) people have said they wish they could enroll in one of my courses. This essay gives a sense of the intellectual work my students and I do in class. It’s also the first time I’ve published something so personal about my life partner. Doing this is scary, so doing it with a rigorous editor was a tremendous gift!!!
Whoever you are, I hope you’ll read and share widely!
How Reading Queer Authors Improved My Relationships
And I hope students who have taken these classes recognize our discussions: Major Author: James Baldwin; Baldwin, Lorde, & LGBT Liberation; Womanhood in Black & White; and Introduction to Fiction.