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]
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 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]
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]
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]
