Koritha Mitchell

@ProfKori

Author of award-winning book LIVING WITH LYNCHING. Editor of Broadview Edition of IOLA LEROY. Black Feminist. Cultural Critic. Runner.

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Joined April 2010
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    Jan 1

    I hope people find this interesting & slightly unexpected! Please share widely.

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    2 hours ago

    “My mother didn’t know how much she needed a female President until she didn’t get one.” A Mother’s Day essay from my colleague Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, “The Fragility of Solidarity.”

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    3 hours ago

    Before I call my mom and godmother and all the moms in my life today, I’m going to give a belated gift to in their honor.

    Happy ! Support NBO’s work continuing to who are being held in cages because they can’t afford bail. It’s not too late to reunite a Black mama or caregiver with their family – donate NOW!
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    1 hour ago

    Up & @ 'em, Tweeple! In our house, today's apostrophe goes at the end... it's Mothers' Day! 👭

    as an Act of Resistance.
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    18 hours ago

    lots of folks--most folks actually--were excluded from literary studies, the humanities, and academia more generally long before the jobs disappeared. seems to me we talk disproportionately more about those forced to "quit" than about those already excluded.

    The white appropriation of “quit lit” has led to a lot of tedious bs
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    13 hours ago

    This is absolutely true and it made me more radical. It also changed my perception of what counted as “smart” and “skilled.”

    Class transition should make everyone more radical. Once you see the real difference between having enough & not, it should change your perception of parity.
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    1 hour ago

    That time I spent catching up on a senior colleague’s work for a rec letter for a rank-open search only for the committee to decide at the second round they weren’t looking at Full Professors anyway 😡

    If we live in a time where (despite the length of applications) every academic job is going to receive approx 200 applicants then you should NOT require reference letters until you cut people from the race. If you require 3 letters from everyone you are wasting 597 people's time.
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    May 11

    Not discussed abt the academic job market: safety as a femme if you move alone to a new place where you barely know anyone 2x I’ve ran away, literally, from men following me. Luckily saved me last time— &turned out she’s a listener!

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    21 hours ago

    This is it. After decades of fleeing to the suburbs, white folks are opting to live in cities now but want to drag all those rules of the suburbs — the policing of private space, of quiet, of the imperatives of *whiteness* — back into these cities with them.

    these folks want the look and the comforts of a city but have a sharp and intense aversion to the *feel* of a city because they want whiteness as a way to literally displace folks in terms of sensual experience: touch, taste, smell, sound, sight.
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  10. 1 hour ago

    What a treat to welcome the youth to last night’s ! is a gift to Columbus & the entire region! S/O

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    May 9

    While I'm here: Invite Black people to speak on panels about something besides diversity, please. We are subject matter experts in things besides race.

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    May 10

    😂

    "Leg washers" about to become a racial slur.
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  13. 23 hours ago

    I'm volunteering at tonight , which reminds me to encourage folk to support !!! Donating money is always a good idea, and here are other ways to get involved:

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    24 hours ago

    That author who got got yesterday was an example of what terms "Know Your Place Aggression." That author was trying to impose some Know Your Place judgment on a Black woman at work, and this is one instance where that did not fly. Props to for capturing it.

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  15. May 10

    I did a 5-mi Walk with . 3 of 4

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    May 10

    Elections have consequences. Stacey Abrams would be governor if not for Kemp being allowed to monitor, preempt & suppress votes for her. Not to mention white majority women voters supported Kemp over Abrams.

    All abortion bans punish women and girls because they criminizalize health care, forcing them to carry fetuses to term. But Georgia will now imprison them for life or execute them for an abortion. Unconstitutional, pseudoscientific, misogynist garbage.
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    May 10

    . Try this to start the day! This song is for lifting. 🎧 Safari (feat. Pharrell Williams, BIA & Sky) by on

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  18. May 10

    "When you sit down to write, tell the truth from one moment to the next and see where it takes you." ~David Mamet via

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  19. May 9

    That mood looks good on you, sis! Many congratulations to my fellow Fordie & virtual running buddy!

    Mood: TENURED & headed to in Fall 2019! See you soon, !
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  20. May 9

    "If you feel you have something to say, you must try and find a way to say it, and not listen to those who’ll tell you it’s unfeasible or unwise. You have to give it your best shot." ~David Margolick via

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    May 9

    Just released! Radical Black Women of Walking Tour Guidebook by & , ft Williana Jones Burroughs, Regina Anderson Andrews, Ella Baker, Claudia Jones, Louise Thompson Patterson, Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde & many more!

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