DBLAC

Digital Black Lit (Literatures & Literacies) and Composition or DBLAC is a digital network of Black graduate students.

Digital Black Lit (Literatures & Literacies) and Composition or DBLAC is a digital network of Black graduate students in the United States, formed in May 2016 at the Digital Media and Composition Institute (DMAC) at The Ohio State University. We are comprised of graduate students who self-identify as Black in the fields of Literacy Studies, Literature, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, English Studies, C

reative Writing, Digital Humanities, and other related fields. This network provides a safe space for members to testify to, discuss with, and share support for each other in response to the continued marginalization of Black bodies in academia. DBLAC also acts as a learning community for professional development, networking, and resource-pooling aimed at the academic retention and success of its members.

11/11/2022

Monday, November 14th at 6 pm EST is our final Reading Series Author Chat of the year! You don't want to miss the conversation on Black Patience with Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. and Sierra Phillips. Register today...http://bit.ly/dblacblackpatience!

10/17/2022

It's that time again...our November Reading Series Author Chat features Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. and Sierra Phillips. Join us as they discuss Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation.

Monday, November 14 at 6 pm EST
Registration: bit.ly/dblacblackpatience

09/28/2022

Join DBLAC on Monday, October 3rd for our next author chat featuring Dr. Keguro Macharia and Kelsey L. Smoot. Register here: bit.ly/dblacfrottage

In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and q***r studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, le***an, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, Frottage questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. More about Frottage: https://nyupress.org/9781479865017/frottage/

09/06/2022

Join us for our next author chat with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland) and Bria Paige (Rutgers University). They will discuss Digital Black Feminism and you don't want to miss it! Register here: https://bit.ly/dblacdigitalblackfeminism

08/29/2022

Join us tonight for an author chat with Dr. Joshua M. Myers and Benesemon Simmons. They will discuss We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 and Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition. Registration link in our bio!

08/24/2022

Join us Monday, August 29 at 6pm EST for an author chat with Dr. Joshua M. Myers and Benesemon Simmons

Register here: https://bit.ly/dblacmyerssimmons

05/12/2022

Thank you for your continued support and connection to the DBLAC community. DBLAC will begin a 3-month rest and re-vision period today. We will begin public programs and moments for connection on August 15, 2022.

During this time, we'll be centering the womanist and feminist values that ground the DBLAC community and leaning on spaces like for guidance on reconnecting the mind to the body. Finally, we plan to use the following meditative questions from for grounding:

- What expectations do you have of your community that you yourself have experienced as a burden?
-How do you contribute tot he exhaustion of the world?
-Who in your life do you resent for resting well? How will you resist envy and join them?

04/27/2022

Join us for writing community and accountability this morning! This month's sessions are grounded and guided by the words and work of E. Patrick Johnson! http://ow.ly/GWo650ITqXW

04/20/2022

is starting soon! Come through and work with us until 10 pm EDT. Our Virtual Writing Group is open to all. This month's sessions are grounded and guided by E. Patrick Johnson.

04/20/2022

We're writing this morning! Come through and connect with us. Our asynchronous, low-tech virtual writing group is accountability centered and open to all. http://ow.ly/Po6Y50INyq3

04/13/2022

Join us for writing accountability this morning! Our low-tech virtual writing group is asynchronous and motivated by communal support. This month's sessions are grounded and guided by E. Patrick Johnson. http://ow.ly/H37S50IILqy

04/09/2022

Our next author chat feature's Poet Angel C. Dye's debut collection Breathe. We're excited for her conversation with Samurah Curry! Come through and support on Monday, April 18, 2022 at 6 pm EDT. Registration link in bio!

Breathe is a timely offering and a catalogue of sharp inhales and deep exhales punctuated by the shifting air around us. Ancestral wounds and present-day pain unwind on these pages, but even in the darkest depths of their undercurrents, there is hope and joy to be found. These poems roar with the truths of the body and its breaks, and sigh with its jagged sutures. In this powerful debut collection, Angel C. Dye bears witness to the sacredness of scars and to the power of community, self-love, and faith in a grand design.

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This conversation is a part of DBLAC's Spring 2022 Reading Series and is supported by the University of Pittsburgh's Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education's Center for Urban Education.

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