my academic career began on twitter. when my 5th kid entered preschool, i hit up all the authors of my favorite books to do events. i built a career off that. i established a track record off that. i fostered a network that was otherwise denied based off my circumstances.
when i emailed a marine biologist, a black studies professor, an agroecologist or a prison abolitionist that was #OnHere, what I posted served as guarantor to my personality, politics and ability to curate readings or resources…twitter served as a dif kind of credit check
i met my people on here, i got context for what i was reading #OnHere. when i needed a syllabus to understand what’s happening in Sudan—I found it, i learned who’s valid in the horn #OnHere, which blackademics were game of thrones-ing + who a zionist. imma miss this bird site 😰
I been shout out twitter in all my public appearances so i feel like i deserve the right to cry on main. i believed in the moments when democracy was enabled on twitter—in the lowercase sense of the word—the way this app has provided affordances to directly speak truth
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