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If this whole #JessicaKrug's got you spun, please check out this incredible list of Black, woman, non-binary scholars that you should care to see. It's a thread.....
1) @krw18 Kayla Renée Wheeler is a Black American contemporary Islam & Fashion Studies scholar. She's too dope to be missed.
2) @DrYoFiggy Yomaira C. Figueroa's work centres 20th century U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic literature & culture. Check out her work.
3) @drcooperowens Deirdre Cooper Owens is a professor of history of race and medicine, one of two Black women in the US running a medical humanities program.
4) @OlivetteOtele is the UK's first black female professor of history. She's a national treasure, as far as I'm concerned. Her new book on Afro-Europeans: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/african-europeans/
5) @VeraSmnSchulz an art historian focusing on Islamic, European and African art. This is how to be an ally. Coming as you are, and creating space.
6) @HannaAli is a fellow at @SOAS, her research focuses on Afro-Arab identity, Blackness/Arab dynamics. Her book 'The Story of Us' heralds African literature in German speaking countries. https://marketfiftyfour.com/products/the-story-of-us-paperback
7) @carolinebressey Writing historical geographies of the Black presence in Victorian Britain, worth a follow.
8) @jmjafrx Jessica Marie Johnson is an Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Her new book on Black womanhood, freedom and intimacy.
https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16139.html
https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16139.html
9) @spiritcitizen Fadeke Castor who reps Trinidad is an African diaspora religions scholar, author of award-winning Spiritual Citizenship (2017).
10) @BeginnersHeart Laurie Lambert is the author of Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution http://upress.virginia.edu/title/5470 .
11) @BLKCLatinasKnow A collective of Black Latina scholars producing innovative knowledge about race within Latinidad and Blackness. Email them at [email protected]. Be about it.
12) @ChaoTayiana is a digital heritage specialist and digital humanities scholar. She is the founder of African Digital Heritage. Where tech and cultural heritage become one. Tell a sis.
13) @TinyMuslimah Donna Auston is an anthropologist, writer, and public intellectual whose body of work focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, protest and social movements, media representation, and Islam in America. Couldn't miss her from this thread!
14) @GenderEquitySci a powerpack of super scientists united in the fight for intersectional gender equity in science. These are #Shuri's folks.
15) @zairedinzey is an accomplished scholar of race, urban space, design, social inequality. She's also the author of Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a PR City. Negra-Caribeña-Latina-QuiBo.
16) @OmarisZamora writes about Black Dominican cultural producers in the US & AfroLatina feminist theory. Beautiful.
17) @afuahirsch Wallis Annenberg Chair
@USC Columnist @guardian, Creative @sikadesigns Author Brit(ish), Broadcaster, @AudibleUK
@BBC African Renaissance out now! A UK treasure. Haters can hate.
@USC Columnist @guardian, Creative @sikadesigns Author Brit(ish), Broadcaster, @AudibleUK
@BBC African Renaissance out now! A UK treasure. Haters can hate.
18) @EmmaDabiri Irish-Nigerian academic, broadcaster, commentator and author of 'Don't Touch my Hair'.
