Sarah Jane Cervenak

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Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’ Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’ Views my own

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Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· 17d

Some beauty

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· 26d

This beautiful book arrived today! Dr. Roshanak Kheshti’s ‘We See With The Skin: On Zora Neale Hurston’s Methodology’ The latest book in the Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study book series @dukepress.bsky.social Thanks for your support ❤️

Cover of We See With the Skin by Roshanak Kheshti.
The cover has a minimalist black-and-white abstract drawing of a human face composed of geometric shapes, curved lines, and patterned textures. The artwork is centered on a white background. The title appears in purple text at the top, with the subtitle beneath it, slightly to the right. The author's name is in purple at the bottom right.

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· 26d

Look at what beautiful book just arrived!! Inside the Body of Black Feminism: Science, Race, Culture by Dr. Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social 💐💐💐 Can’t wait to read ❤️ @dukepress.bsky.social @jennifercnash.bsky.social

The cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism:
Science, Race, Culture by Dr. Samantha Pinto depicts an abstract black figure against a red and white background. The black figure is overlaid with white pen like scribbles, red brushstrokes, and peach, red, ochre, and aqua cloud like formations. The words are in yellow, white and peach

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jul 8

Saw this beautiful print of Toni Morrison’s The Site of Memory at Labyrinth books The image is oceanic water on the cover; the waves crest through the title and move just underneath Morrison’s name-a poem

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jul 7

Beautiful books spotted today at Labyrinth Books, Princeton @dukepress.bsky.social

Book covers: on left, black and blue, starry galaxy with a rust-colored nebula-Title, Breaking the World Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction. By Justin L. Mann

On right, a blue book with a black abstract shape centered that features title and contributors, Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: PHOEBE BOSWELL; SAIDIYA HARTMAN; JANAÍNA OLIVEIRA
JOSEPH M. PIERCE; CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, With an Introduction by
CHRISTINA SHARPE

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jul 5

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jul 2

Good morning

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 29

From a tribute I wrote for Pope.L. a year ago open.substack.com/pub/sjcwrite...

that collective embrace of the horizontal—informed by Pope L.’s critique of the anti-black, ableist, and anti-poor visible invisibilization of unhoused peoples and of unhoused social life—maybe also opened something like a momentary recalibration (Pope L. often named “gravity” as a collaborator)…a recalibration of space and time that generalized horizontality toward a hyper-extracted earth’s uncategorizable, released living

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 25

Writing stack

Stack of books

Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland

The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song by J. Kameron Carter

Looking for Livingstone – an Odyssey of Silence by M. NourbeSe Philip

She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 24

Spent time with an old friend today ❤️

Book cover of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ by Sarah Jane Cervenak. The artist Carrie Mae Weems is seen wandering along a cobble stone path by the ocean. The photograph is black and white.

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 24

all the flowers 💐

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 23

Good morning

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 5

Dr. Roshanak Kheshti just sent me the image of her book cover, ‘We See With The Skin’: On Zora Neale Hurston’s Methodology! the newest addition to the Black Outdoors book series, available for preorder and out August! Happy and proud @dukeuniversitypress

Image of Dr. Roshanak Kheshti’s book cover ‘We See With the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Methodology’

The image is called “Lenox Avenue” by artist Sargent Claude Johnson, for the WPA, 1938) it is a black and white line drawing of a face, made by abstract shapes of black, grey and white—the face transects with piano keys and a pencil.

❤️💐💐

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 4

Honored to share that I’ve been invited to participate as faculty for this year’s Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute at Duke University

BLACK FEMINIST THEORY SUMMER INSTITUTE

CRISIS

AUGUST 3-7, 2026

CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH
SARAH JANE CERVENAK
AIMEE MEREDITH COX
HAYLEE HARRELL
JAMES HOWARD HILL, JR.
URI MCMILLAN
TAMI NAVARRO
KANEESHA PARSARD

CONVENED BY: JENNIFER C. NASH
CONTACT: MISHANA.GARSCHI@DUKE.EDU
https://tinyurl.com/dukebftsi

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· Jun 2

“Beauty is a method” Dr. Christina Sharpe 💐

Two pink flowers with long petals against a backdrop of a green

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 24

Summer reading and writing time is here. A perfect time to engage in this practice, also to curb the isolation often attendant to creativity (quote seen on instagram)

Quote says:

“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”
Victoria Wright

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 18

I think of this book often ❤️💐

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 14

Look at what beautiful book arrived in the mail today! In Theory, Darling Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination By Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social

Cover of In Theory, Darling
Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination
By Marcos Gonsalez

Cover is bright pink which overlays a photo of the theorist José Esteban Muñoz. Text is in white and black against backgrounds of yellow and green

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 14

Highly recommend books from the Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study series for the @dukepress.bsky.social sale💐💐

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Series Detail
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Series Editors
J. Kameron Carter, Sarah Jane Cervenak

Overview:
Black Outdoors is dedicated to the study of alternative ecologies and socialities beyond logics of property, sovereignty, and propertied self-possession. It points to forms of social life exceeding the racial, sexual, gendered, economic, and neurological protocols of self- and civic administration and of the normatively human. Indeed, Black Outdoors attends to figurations of the outdoors as "black," where blackness exceeds regulation. It envisions books that imagine form itself as an occasion of reimagining language and relation without the enclosures dividing people from each other and from the earth and the universe. Black Outdoors invites a range of approaches to blackness and out(doors)ness, to what black outdoors as potential and possibility could mean to imaginations of being and relationality.

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 14

Good morning

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 13

Good morning

Sarah Jane Cervenak@sjcerv· May 6

Received my copy of the latest issue of @cmagazine.com today. Published an essay on the great artist Nolan Oswald Dennis . First essay in an art magazine 🥰