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- Can we talk?: Real-talk on Being Black, believing, asserting, and advocating
History ain’t safe for Black scholars or disabled scholars who challenge the orthodoxy; and, academic history is absolutely okay with that. I said what I said. *Nonlinear unstructured reflection.
- Responding to Thinh’s article on Generative AI and epistemic justice and autonomy in Learning Media and Technology.
A response to “Between automation and epistemic autonomy: reappropriating generative AI in global academic writing” in Learning Media and Technology.
- Different Brains, Different Pains; just different.
A letter to the critics who won’t let the late Professor rest. And a plea for those who care to keep holding the ladder.
- The Limits of Decoloniality
De-, anti-, and post-colonial research communities are rife in abolitionist language absent the emancipatory practice, innovation or creativity required to make it actually happen.
- The Call is Coming from Inside the Faculty Lounge: Ctrl+Alt+Hypocrisy
What the hell are they still talking about?
- Black limemancipatory theory: What is the thing?: “Ethics this and ethics that. Do the damn thing.”
Introducing Black limemancipatory theory.
- Reckoning with Me, Unapologetically
Ms Gail, Being Black, neurodivergent, and queer in a discipline that calls itself neutral; leading to neurodivergent burnout and learning the power in the act of refusal in epistemic justice.
- The “We Want Your Voice” Lie from the Anti-AI (Cop) Educator
On “word salad”, “lack of precision”, “nonlinear” and “confusing” in academic and social discourse.
- A Love Letter to the Anti-AI Cabal in Higher Education
No offense, HE educators, especially you, academic historians --- but the anti-AI rhetoric is so yesterday. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
- GAI as a tool for epistemic justice
The “critical thinking” argument doesn’t stand. It’s time we stop ceding to that argument, especially since its most vocal promoters seldom think critically about their own positionality or pra…
Selected works
- The Inhumanity of History / the Humanities in the Age of AI
- Who Gets to Call Something History?
- A critique of (the Academy’s) History: The Master’s Tools Won’t Fix It (I said what I said.)
- The Humanities Disconcerting Position on AI
- Decolonize your mind and your practice
- Decolonial scholarship <&> Artificial Intelligence
- We Can’t Teach Liberation or Respond to Equity in a Colonial Classroom
- Defending DEI at Work in the Post-truth era
- On AI and the Academy: Dragging heels ‘til they outsource themselves out of a job
- If Research Isn’t Accessible, What Are We Doing?
- Decolonizing the Academy: Knowledge, Power, and What Counts as Academic Rigor
- Abandoning AI is abandoning students
- On inclusion: Call it blended, call it hybrid. Academia’s future is virtual
Notes from Belfast
Blog-style posts, unpublished articles, and poetry. Read the notes & poems →