Laurian Bowles PhD
Black femme anthropologist | Author: HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra bit.ly/42KE9Dv, get 30% off w/ code PENN-LBOWLES30 or CSPENN30
she/her/dr | vann professor of racial justice | relationship anarchist | diaspora daughter|
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDBlack Friday is canceled
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDRest in power Imam Jamal Alamin formerly known as H Rap Brown former chairman of SNCC former minister of justice of the Black Panther Party.
- Grab a catalog sheet & get 50% off my book at the 2025 @americananthro.bsky.social conference.
- Just saw a Rimowa suitcase with a big ole dent in it. I would be mad as hell
- Acting like I'm grown
- Charlotte’s the home of NASCAR — NASCAR’s origin is curbing the feds and bootlegging. It's not called a hornest's nest for nothing
- Don't sleep on Charlotte 👑 www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...
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- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDI wish y’all would stop subscribing to and legitimizing the NY Times
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDNC weather is completely unhinged. An almost 30 degree temperature drop in 24 hours? 😭
- "I think it’s wise to decline speaking to the Times on principle. The reasons aren’t especially obscure: Palestine superabundantly, but also decades of hyper-sensationalizing crime reporting, the neverending centrist stooge’ing, all the unparody-able rest of it." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
- I really have to re-break this habit of scrolling before bed. Last night's nightmare featured a person from my tt feed 😩
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- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDThread on what journalists with integrity go through. 🧵
- "Fortunately, Assata left us with a map, a rich archive of her travails, aspirations, and insights, written in her own words" -Orisanmi Burton proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...
- The distance between people & SNAP benefits vs the distance between people and billionaires yet people are arguing about billionaire's rights. Peak delusional colo mentality
- It's not the silent treatment. I'm just letting you lead
- In the other Ian MacFadyen takes a financial approach to his argument, insisting that a Yes vote would be a fiscally irresponsible move for the county. ... qcnerve.com/transit-tax-...
- New exhibition:October 10, 2025 - March 8, 2026. www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/...
- Hey #booklovers and #podcast enthusiasts! Check out @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast episode about my new book: #Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness and Modernity in Accra 📖🌟. If you like what you hear, consider buying: 🔗 www.pennpress.org/978151282465... newbooksnetwork.com/headstrong
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDElon Musk has built his empire through ruthless exploitation, union busting, and dangerous working conditions, and his company's reliance on cobalt from Congo keeps fueling instability in the region that has resulted in the death and displacement of thousands.
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDRep. Don Beyer (R-VA) reacted with horror to a #legal complaint filed against the Trump administration on behalf of an American family that had to scramble to escape Congo after X owner Elon #Musk shut down the US Agency for International Development. #USAID www.rawstory.com/trump-usaid-...
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- Thank you to everyone who showed up, asked brilliant questions, and made the evening one to remember. We sold out of copies📚 #BookLaunch #Headstrong #NewBeginnings #Blackfeminist #ethnography
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- What's the tipping point between a protest and pep rally?
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- shunning is a useful choice
- "When we are so hyper-focused on who should be doing the job, instead of who’s actually doing it, we miss the opportunity to have some really rich connections with people." Nedra Glover Tawwab
- A poem for insomnia: The ceiling hums with hours, a few ticks to midnight Your sky is breaking in pale fire. I trace the shape of your name in darkness, a tide pulling east If I could unspool this restless night, I’d knot it gently to your morning light— joyful in a shared horizon.
- "Pan-African feminism has always been rooted in solidarity with colonized peoples of the world, not their oppressors". africanfeminism.com/my-withdrawa...
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDTune in to this week's newsletter! Scholarly Sources with Laurian Bowles | Fast 5: Art & War with Christopher C. Gorham | Meet A Host with Jenna Pittman @drlaurian.bsky.social www.christophercgorham.com scholars.duke.edu/person/Jenna... newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/headstrong...
- Reposted by Laurian Bowles PhDLet’s give a round of applause for Ideas on Fire author Laurian Bowles @drlaurian.bsky.social on the release of Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra! 🥳 It’s out now from @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282465... #IoFAuthors
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- I have been Facebook free for 15 years
- It's always been the bulk bins. From the Home Economist, the Healthy Home Market to Fresh Fields to Sprouts Farmer's Market. Bulk bins keep me and my p-touch in a happy place.
- She calls herself a radical but is conflict avoidant 🤔
- "And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know...1/2
- But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." 2/2 www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
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- "The essay is a razor-sharp critique of intellectuals who, by assuming the roles of “experts” and technocrats for the state, abandon all moral, ethical, and historical judgment in order to advance ruling class interests and U.S. hegemony" www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...
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- "We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)
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