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This symposium on “Whiteness as Property” will be absolutely incredible and I am so grateful I will be able to attend! Cheryl Harris will speak, along with a list of scholars from around the world

Anne Carson’s BBC interview on winning the Nobel is delightful. Go find it.

I’m so excited!

You. This should be too!

Thank you. I’m the editor not the author but really appreciate your thoughts.

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Thank you, Karin. For everything.

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Thank you.

I’m thinking about all of this today especially because it’s the 10th anniversary of my mom’s passing.

But I know that this next book (still in progress) emerged from the community I found with this book. There is NO PATH to the questions it proposes without the Black folks I’ve met these last ten years.

The book connected me to **remarkable**thinkers of color, and those connections helped me navigate my own institutional challenges. There are always people ready to tell me it doesn’t “count” (it’s an edited volume, it’s not in my field). Maybe they are right, institutionally.

I’ve tried to channel the best of what I’ve learned into building a community with the Race and Regency Lab, a space where we can reflect on complex issues free from institutional obstacles. It is more work than talks or workshops, but the possibilities for meaningful disruptions feel very real.

The work that felt most meaningful was almost always the private lunches (I pushed hard for those) I had with faculty of color. I also was invited to do serve as an external reviewer for a department that felt RICH with promise. It went beyond talks and into departmental history and structure.

I learned invaluable lessons in the talks and workshops I was part of. Many of those lessons came from women of color. I also saw first hand, across the country, how institutional resistance operates. I worried a lot about providing cover for disingenuous academic leaders.

It put my career on a completely different path than the one I planned. And A LOT of people thought I would become a DEI administrator. That was never my goal. But I am glad that it has positioned me to help academics of color, sometimes taking TO/WITH them and sometimes speaking on their behalf.