“law of the jungle” very transparently shows how anti-blackness is written into that genocidal & colonial rhetoric

reading a few poems about incivility and preciousness w/ Black Nerd Problems @ 6et tonight 🥹

Feels very weird to be like “look at my book cover” right now. But here’s my book cover. Thank you to all the artists who laid a hand on this, particularly Devan Shimoyama’s brilliance and dream designer Mary Austin Speaker. Bluff, Aug 2024.

my first book Theophanies is out today. I’m a published author! my oldest, wildest, most terrifying dream isn’t a dream anymore. this was seven years in the making. today, it stops belonging to me. now it’s yours. 👁️ alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/theo…

so so excited to read 😭

Can't capture how excited I am for Derek Siegel and for ODU Sociology and Criminal Justice !! A brilliant sociologist, pedagogue, and friend who has provided me (and many others) with careful thought, constant support, revisions and reframes, and grounding reminders again and again of why we

one of the best days of the year 🥲 since 2019, have made a ritual of writing these words from The Salt Eaters on a notecard every day. missed a lot of days, but still: hundreds. no trifling matter, the want.

I fought with Yale for four months, sent 47 emails, and filed a lawsuit to get these documents. It turns out Yale isn’t very interested in Lux or Veritas, especially for its “accountable” and “fully transparent” Yale Police Department