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Zaria El-Fil

@DearZaria

History PhD Student. ZΦB. Instagram: @BlackademicReads

 Chicago, IL
Joined January 2019
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Book Title: Intangible Archives (Working Title) Deadlines: Submission of Proposals: March 25, 2026 Seeking essays from an international range of cultures and traditions, we invite chapters on intangible archives. caribbeanstudiesassociation.…
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"Bankers and Empire : How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean" by Hudson, Peter James. drive.google.com/file/d/110l…
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Co-teaching the Colonizations sequence next quarter! Excited to expose students to the political theorists who changed my life when I was their age. We're reading Fanon, Wynter, Césaire, and so many more!
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“I don’t owe anybody anything!” Actually we are perhaps nothing but dizzyingly intricate webs of obligations to other beings and ourselves. The sheer weight of our obligations is all that keeps us from floating away into space. We can never do enough but we must try.
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Scalawag@scalawagmag5 Dec 2025
A few lessons on surviving fascism from the time void known as Jim Crow. scalawagmagazine.org/2025/02…
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow – Scalawag

Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow – Scalawag

The Black South has developed battle-tested strategies for fighting fascism. Here are a few lessons from the time void known as Jim Crow.

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“Engendering Blackness” is 40% off through 12/8 on @stanfordpress’s website. sup.org/books/theory-and-phi…
Engendering Blackness | Stanford University Press

Engendering Blackness | Stanford University Press

In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural...

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“Was yielding to a lover the moment everything went wrong?” - Saidiya Hartman
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Wow! Someone liked this tweet from 2021 and so it popped up in my notifications today. I remember this feeling vividly 🤍
Zaria El-Fil (@DearZaria) profile pictureZaria El-Fil@DearZaria25 Feb 2021
After re-reading the congratulations email upward of 10 times, I can fully confirm that I have been admitted to Yale University for my PhD. Wow. My family is ecstatic. I’m the first in my family to pursue a graduate level degree.
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Issue #2 of the open-access journal Plant Perspectives @plantpjournal from @whitehorsepress is now available online with the theme "Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance in Science and Literature" whp-journals.co.uk/PP/
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UC Davis: I’m teaching a small seminar this winter quarter over Zoom. Check it out: Afro-Mexican and Afro-Chicano Culture and Identity.
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Mañana miércoles 20 voy a estar en la @UFrontera, Temuco, en este hermoso y recomendable Workshop del que tengo la alegría de participar. Nos vemos allí !! 🤩🤩🤩
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especially because they will read your introvertedness as a sign of “aggression”
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The worst thing you can be in a workplace is black and shy
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When has a biological and Objectively attractive women not won Miss Universe? If you can’t see what he’s doing, then you are very blind.
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Biological & objectively attractive women are allowed to win beauty pageants again. WE ARE SO BACK!!!
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The decolonial girlies win again. Anti-colonial girlies, you’ve been eliminated.
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Jokes aside, I know that we will see more of this across the country. The main people who have been fighting censorship across federal administrations are our educators in the South. It’s important to organize *with* them and learn from them.
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or, perhaps, you could study the racial stigmatization of black reproductive capacities, and not replicate anti-black Moynihan theories of black women and girls?
julia, u know ill nvr make a fool of ya (@Nellythamenace) profile picturejulia, u know ill nvr make a fool of ya@Nellythamenace18 Nov 2024
Ngl it’s a study that need to be done how so many black girls have been pre-configured to be Baby Mommas.
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A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. Where we are headed: Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/
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Look what I got! I'm so excited to dive in! I've been telling anyone who will listen that integration is a categorical failure! Thank you @nrookie for writing this book! TWO books in a year! Boss moves! You, dear sister, are doing the Lord's work! Pre-order now!
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