Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)
@tnflorvil
Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
The event includes readings with Esther Heller Kondo, Dr. @alexispauline.bsky.social, Dr. Olumide Poopla, Jùmòké Adeyanju, Trovania DeLille, Candice Nembhard, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Nathanael Kliebhan, and me (Dr. TFlo). Reach out to the organizers if you would be interested in attending.
Driving from Santa Clara, CA to Albie is truly not for the weak with a small stop in Sedona, AZ.
Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!! I hope to have you sign it whenever we meet irl.
The snow in Albie is now melting. 🫠
Look at the US interventions. ugh
Received the page proofs for a PMLA piece I wrote
It is the 29th anniversary of May Ayim's death. Next year will be 30 years since her passing, and there is still quite a bit of misinformation out there about her. I hope to pursue my Black feminist care work and ethics with my biography of her.
This is my mom and me on her a birthday in 2013. We had already learned about the Stage IV diagnosis.
Excerpt from my work in progress: Of course, the foster child number conceals more than it reveals. The number is both a cipher and a narrative that I attempt to excavate with an “ordinary note of care.”
Look at this Lego Dolly from the Brick Convention in Albie.
Look what arrived in my mailbox in Cambridge, MA.