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Thrilled to share that my article, From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy, will be published in the @UCLALawReview. Here’s the updated abstract followed by a thread of quotes from each section: [1/9]
![Thrilled to share that my article, From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy, will be published in the @UCLALawReview. Here’s the updated abstract followed by a thread of quotes from each section: [1/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KRczWkAEBttY.jpg "Thrilled to share that my article, From Academic Freedom to Cancel Culture: Silencing Black Women in the Legal Academy, will be published in the @UCLALawReview. Here’s the updated abstract followed by a thread of quotes from each section: [1/9]")
The Introduction: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”-Zora Neale Hurston [2/9]
![The Introduction: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”-Zora Neale Hurston [2/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KR1PXsAEpg3K.jpg "The Introduction: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”-Zora Neale Hurston [2/9]")
On #CancelCulture: “Shame is a tool of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy because it produces trauma which often produces paralysis.”- @bellhooks [3/9]
![On #CancelCulture: “Shame is a tool of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy because it produces trauma which often produces paralysis.”- @bellhooks [3/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KSM2WsAAvZEb.jpg "On #CancelCulture: “Shame is a tool of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy because it produces trauma which often produces paralysis.”- @bellhooks [3/9]")
On the #lawschool white space and white academic norms: “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” -Toni Morrison [4/9]
![On the #lawschool white space and white academic norms: “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” -Toni Morrison [4/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KSixWoAAVshD.jpg "On the #lawschool white space and white academic norms: “In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” -Toni Morrison [4/9]")
On the many ways Black women are cancelled including white tears,intersectional microaggressions,tokenism and the resulting physical,psychological,and emotional trauma:”Women of Color in america have grown up within a symphony of anger at being silenced at being unchosen...[5/9]
...at knowing that when we survive, it is in spite of a world that takes for granted our lack of humanness, and which hates our very existence outside of its service.”-Audre Lorde [6/9]
![...at knowing that when we survive, it is in spite of a world that takes for granted our lack of humanness, and which hates our very existence outside of its service.”-Audre Lorde [6/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KS2YXsAECg-o.jpg "...at knowing that when we survive, it is in spite of a world that takes for granted our lack of humanness, and which hates our very existence outside of its service.”-Audre Lorde [6/9]")
On what the legal academy can do about it: “Diversity without structural transformation simply brings those who were previously excluded into a system as racist, as misogynist, as it was before.”
-Angela Davis [7/9]
![On what the legal academy can do about it: “Diversity without structural transformation simply brings those who were previously excluded into a system as racist, as misogynist, as it was before.”-Angela Davis [7/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KTCqWkAIYaAS.jpg "On what the legal academy can do about it: “Diversity without structural transformation simply brings those who were previously excluded into a system as racist, as misogynist, as it was before.”-Angela Davis [7/9]")
-Angela Davis [7/9]
And, in conclusion, on my limited optimism that I’ll see change in my lifetime: “…bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma/i havent conquered yet.”-Ntozake Shange [8/9]
![And, in conclusion, on my limited optimism that I’ll see change in my lifetime: “…bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma/i havent conquered yet.”-Ntozake Shange [8/9]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef-KTQjX0AIM-6v.jpg "And, in conclusion, on my limited optimism that I’ll see change in my lifetime: “…bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma/i havent conquered yet.”-Ntozake Shange [8/9]")
Last,but certainly not least,thanks to my Cocktails & Comments writing group ( @lawprofajackson @DeShunHarris5)and my mentor friends @mdwilson_law & @ProfARoberts for supporting my writing this summer along with my RAs & the @StJohnsLaw JR faculty scholars. #BlackintheIvory [9/9]
