Cynthia Greenlee

@CynthiaGreenlee

PhD historian. Writer. Sr. editor . Nerd! Biscuits, dogs, my drawl. Country cosmopolitan. Bi-Carolinian (NC/SC). . INTP. Views mine.

Durham, NC and the world
Joined April 2011
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    Jan 22

    Today is the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I woke up and thanked the 1973 Supreme Court for making abortion legal, preventing women’s deaths, and making reproductive autonomy possible. Here’s to hoping the current and future Courts don’t take away that right.

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  2. May 5

    Can someone explain to me why Ashley Darby is wearing warm socks to bed in hopes of conceiving?

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  3. May 3

    Mom: All I want for Mothers Day is a complete and unredacted Mueller report. Me: I can't get that in the drugstore card section.

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  4. Apr 23

    I'm trying to legit figure out if it's a bad time or the best time to have a film like "The Intruder," about a white man/iac who terrorizes the Black couple who bought his house.

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  5. Apr 20

    Who among you grew up doing Easter speeches in church? It’s how I learned public speaking.

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  6. Apr 8

    I know the Chartreuse Menace has officially arrived when I let my jet-Black and Beautiful dog, Layla, out to frolic in the backyard — and she comes back in with frosted tips circa the 1980s, except the tips are yellowish pixie dust. .

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  7. Apr 7

    It feels so delicious and transgressive to read a book without footnotes.

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  8. Mar 11

    Who goes to a chicken and waffles joint and orders GRILLED chicken?

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  9. Mar 3

    Shouldn't have to explain this, but ... Black people live in Appalachia. Hunt. Worry about police stops when driving to a hunt with a gun in car. Think about the people who were on the land before. Read "Notes from an Angry Black Hunter" by Jonathan Hall: .

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  10. Mar 3

    I cleared most of the paper stacks on my desk and learned this is where spoons go to hide.

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  11. Mar 3

    How we do construct archives of Black life in Appalachia? One way is publishing essays like this ("I Pledge Allegiance to Affrilachia") written by Marie Cochran and edited by yours truly:

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  12. Mar 1

    My grits piece for got a brief lovely mention from today: . Here I was thinking my writing somehow pissed off racists when I saw a social media uptick. How nice to be wrong (and what a world we live in when that's my first thought).

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    Feb 26

    Jamaican women have been advocating for their reproductive rights for quite some time. The activism today happens as a result of decades of work by our fore-mothers. Here's a brief look at Jamaica's reproductive rights history:

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  14. Feb 26

    I chatted with editor re: my recent article about women using hot grits as weapon on the Vice Guide to Right Now podcast: . Take a listen!

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    Feb 24

    My favorite Oscars moment is and always will be Glenn Close studying Billy Porter and coming to a clear conclusion.

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  16. Feb 25

    Marley is embarassed for the Academy after this latest mistake of “Driving Miss Daisy” proportions.

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  17. Feb 24

    The Archival Gods blessed me today, when a source I've been hunting for several years appeared from out of nowhere.

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  18. Feb 24

    People keep sending me my own article about hot grits as weapon, asking if I've read it. Yes, I did. I wrote it. LOL. Here it is:

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  19. Feb 22

    Bennett College loses accreditation:

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  20. Feb 21

    Few things break my heart like people who don't know their own history, particularly when that history was silenced or obscured by violence.

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  21. Feb 20

    I find sports fandom to be a little weird and obsessive, but "TAR" ... (y'all should complete the sentence by screaming "HEELS!"

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