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To the Class of 2026 and everyone cheering them on from the sidelines… this season deserves to be celebrated in style. 🎓...
05/21/2026

To the Class of 2026 and everyone cheering them on from the sidelines… this season deserves to be celebrated in style. 🎓 The tassel was worth the hassle!

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What’s better than one PhD 🎓? TwoEspecially when they from the same hue as you 🫶🏾Even better when they walked the same g...
05/18/2026

What’s better than one PhD 🎓? Two
Especially when they from the same hue as you 🫶🏾
Even better when they walked the same grounds too!

What a treat to celebrate my bestie Dr. West for getting his PhD from the University of Virginia! Such a great weekend in Cville & the country, with great people, good wine, and amazing views.

and I met 20 years ago, and have been by each other’s side as we have experienced life for two decades. I’m so proud of him! Can’t wait to see what he does next 🎉

On Tuesdays I Teach...SPRING SEMESTER IS FINALLY OVER!Thank you to my Literacy Lecturers! Thank you to the future Dr. De...
05/13/2026

On Tuesdays I Teach...

SPRING SEMESTER IS FINALLY OVER!

Thank you to my Literacy Lecturers! Thank you to the future Dr. Dean! Thank you to my amazing students! I inherited this course and was told I could make it my own, and of course that's what I did. The title of this course is insanely long...

Critical Literacies, Digital Technology & Instruction for Diverse Classrooms.

A master's level course mainly geared towards in-service teachers was transformed to a space where 18 masters and doctoral students defined, interrogated, and redefined their understandings and stances of literacy{ies}. By expanding the notions of literacy, we covered reading and writing of course, but also multimodality in bringing in speaking, listening, viewing, and producing visually, as well as racial literacy, q***r literacies, Black girl literacies, AI literacy, global literacy, and multiliteracies, just to name a few.

On our last class we ended where we started... with the question, what is literacy? My students didn't know that I kept their first day's response to that question so I let them revisit that initial definition and write a new one, now with a semester's worth of learning (and unlearning).

Yes, our snackage was supreme. I decided that I can't be a pizza professor (no offense, and mainly because of my lactose intolerance) but always wanted a little extra, so in comes Trader Joe's assorted treats and beverages.

I loved this course and these students, grateful for such a warm and positive learning space that we co-created.

I will be teaching this again next spring, so I am excited to debrief and process through this course over the summer to make some adjustments and enhancements for next year.

Now back to the grading...

Last week the Center for Visual Literacies held its FIRST bicoastal event, a workshop on Critical Collaborative Collage!...
05/11/2026

Last week the Center for Visual Literacies held its FIRST bicoastal event, a workshop on Critical Collaborative Collage!

Hosted simultaneously at UMD & SDSU, the facilitators walked students and faculty through defining and creating imagery using Critical Collaborative Collage.

Overall -- it was a vibe, and participants left with new ways to think through and about their data, their dissertations, their classroom practices, and their research agendas.

Grateful for my protector. Happy Mother’s Day! 💐
05/11/2026

Grateful for my protector. Happy Mother’s Day! 💐

A time was had last night! Thank you for the invite to such a wonderful night for a wonderful cause. It's cool to see y...
05/09/2026

A time was had last night! Thank you for the invite to such a wonderful night for a wonderful cause. It's cool to see your coworkers outside of the workplace. Babe & I had a great time with great food, great people, great wine and great music. I felt so adult-like getting to dress up and donate to FAPAC. Oh, and Babe finally rode the metro! It was a good intro to the metro -- all on the green line, with a short walk from station to destination.

WE OUTSIDE this spring & summer!

🎂 Happy Earthly Birthday lil BIG brother.✨I have never believed in heavenly birthdays. Like for real, it’s Heaven. It’s ...
05/08/2026

🎂 Happy Earthly Birthday lil BIG brother.

✨I have never believed in heavenly birthdays. Like for real, it’s Heaven. It’s eternal. Jesus and God and your favorite ancestors up there kicking it all the time? We don’t need no birthdays. There is no time — not colonized time or CP time — so we can’t clock birthdays. The only time that exists up there is KAIROS.

🖤Kairos — which is now one of my favorite words - biblically means in God’s perfect timing. I had never heard of this word in my life until I was looking through Greg’s things after he passed, and he was a doodler, so there were little pieces of paper that fell out of his books, and on this one paper he had written in a beautiful script, one word...

KAIROS

🫶🏾 While I didn’t know it at that time, it would be a word that I’d come to cherish. One that would help me as I configure and reconfigure my relationship with deep grief. God took Greg in kairos - in HIS perfect timing, and the rest of my life will continue to unfold in kairos too.

🌎 While I don’t believe in heavenly birthdays — I do believe in earthly ones. On his birthday, and throughout his life, I was always there, right by his side. I am so grateful for May 8, 1991, when Greg was born, and I will continue to celebrate his life and our bond year-round, and especially on May 8th.

SIX YEARS AGO...during a global pandemic, I started 🧵 The Scholarly Sewist. I had no idea that this one idea would grow ...
05/03/2026

SIX YEARS AGO...

during a global pandemic, I started 🧵 The Scholarly Sewist. I had no idea that this one idea would grow alongside me as I finished my PhD, did a postdoc, and started a tenure-track job at an R1. I also didn't think that 3000+ people would join me on this journey. I am grateful for this space, this persona, this community. The Scholarly Sewist is me, but it's also all of us.

🪡 Let's continue stitching new possibilities and weaving an otherwise as we show up fully and unapologetically in academia.

🖤 And we are FINALLY Restocked! Go shop now at www.thescholarlysewist.com. Use code THANKYOU10 to save 10% off your order.

💐 April has been a great month, and also a long month. 🤦🏾‍♀️ On Tuesdays…we still teaching! Summer soon come.🖤 Let’s get...
04/29/2026

💐 April has been a great month, and also a long month.
🤦🏾‍♀️ On Tuesdays…we still teaching! Summer soon come.
🖤 Let’s get into these mixed prints though! I like it…ALOT!

✨ Y’all know I don’t play about my babydocs!🧐 Last year a student named Taylor reached out to me to have a conversation ...
04/28/2026

✨ Y’all know I don’t play about my babydocs!

🧐 Last year a student named Taylor reached out to me to have a conversation about being her advisor. She had heard about me and my research and thought there was significant overlap and wanted to work with me.

💡 But wait, its my first year on the tenure-track! But she did her homework, made her case, and I loved her research ideas. So I told her to think about it, shared a little bit about me and my work ethic, my style, and what the next steps would be. She came back and said let’s do this, so I’m like if you with it then I’m with it —honestly my ADHD hadn’t stopped thinking about the uniqueness of her dissertation topic since we chatted.

🗺️ Taylor has faced some high highs and a bit of lows too since that convo {such is life, eh?} and done it all with strength and grace (all which is overwhelming — you know the plight of a Black woman) and today she defended her dissertation proposal flawlessly. It was loving, and captivating, and beautifully written, and the visuals were dope AF.

👏🏾 I am so proud of her. I am grateful that I could create a safe and communal space for her to defend her work with pride, and be open to the dope women scholars on her committee to pour into her and her dissertation project.

☺️ I am so honored that she chose me to usher her through this process, and that she trusted me enough to be the FIRST student I chair. I am so grateful for the support of the rest of the committee for the space to make it my own, and to learn from their experience and wisdom.

🎉 More to come...

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