Blacktivism In the Academy

This is a podcast for scholar activists by scholar activists! We're about encouraging and facilitating learning, activism, and anti-racist action. You'll hear prominent speakers from communities of color addressing how to step out of the societal cyclical patterns of our shared past. If you are seeking a community of like-minded scholar-activists, keep listening.

6.9 They Can't Do It Like You 11/14/2025

6.9 They Can't Do It Like You The Beyonce of Higher Ed herself, Lori Patton Davis, is our guest on today's episode. She shares her visions of the future, advice for scholars, and her views on sharing your voice within (and beyond) the academy. _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/39032425

6.8 You're Published. Who Cares? 11/06/2025

6.8 You're Published. Who Cares? Doctors Felecia Commodore and TyKeia Robinson graced the mic to share thoughts on community, creativity, and how we share our work with the world. _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38941005

6.7 Artistry in the Academy 10/16/2025

6.7 Artistry in the Academy This short and sweet conversation features doctors Natasha Croom and Robin Phelps-Ward speaking about their views on artistry inside and outside of the academy. They share their creativity with all of us today and help us think about the place of aesthetics in scholalry work and life beyond the academy. Check out Dr. Phelps-Ward's visual artwork - _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38531560

6.6 Pouring Into Each Other 10/09/2025

6.6 Pouring Into Each Other We have an amazing duo on the podcast today to share the short but impactful conversation about their ups and downs in the academy and their creative work. Thank you Laila McCloud and T.J. Stewart for joining us on the mic! _____________ Keep up with our guests' work on Google Scholar Check out the single by T.J. Stewart _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38531565

Bonus - Revisiting Campus Abolition 10/09/2025

Bonus - Revisiting Campus Abolition We're revisiting a conversation we had last year with Charles H.F. Davis III We think it's worth listening back with the context of another year in an increasingly policed climate. Do professors and administrators become tools of oppression or can we offer ourselves in revolutionary service? _____________ Twitter/Instagram - @hfdavis _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38530480

6.5 Academic Roots with BTK 10/02/2025

6.5 Academic Roots with BTK We've got royalty on the mic, y'all. The Dr. Bridget Turner-Kelly talks about growing up with the academy at her fingertips, finding her way to higher ed, and helping others do the same. _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38445225

6.4 About Higher Ed Community 09/25/2025

6.4 About Higher Ed Community We've got doctors Leonard Taylor and Steve Mobley Jr. join us on the mic to talk about building community, their hopes for future scholars, and how they've evolved in the presentation of their research and identities. _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38358375

6.3 Purpose Beyond Papers 09/18/2025

6.3 Purpose Beyond Papers Doctors Reggie Blockett and Quortne Hutchings hop on the mic to talk about purpose, what survives of your work, and the possibilities for being Black and... _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38270865

6.2 Friendship in the Academy 09/11/2025

6.2 Friendship in the Academy Doctors Paris Wicker and Lashawn Faith Washington join us for a quick chat about friendship in the acadmey, advice for rising scholars, and just a tiny bit about real hip hop. More about Paris Wicker - More about Lashawn Faith Washington - _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38184575

6.1 You in community? 09/04/2025

6.1 You in community? Season 6 starts off with Cherese and J.T. talking about what it means to really be in community and what community looks like to them. _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/38091765

Summer Bonus - Juneteenth 06/19/2025

Summer Bonus - Juneteenth A Quick conversation about Juneteenth thoughts. Hosts Cherese Fine PhD. & Jeremy Snipes PhD. Director/Audio Editor K. Gloria Mwez Produced by That Untitled Project The DREAM Collective /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/37081275

Season 6 is on the Way 05/22/2025

Season 6 is on the Way Season 6 starts September 4th, but in the meantime, we'll make sure you've got some bonus audio to listen to over the summer. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/36650540

5.15 Is That Okay? - Season 5 Report Cards 08/28/2024

5.15 Is That Okay? - Season 5 Report Cards We're wrapping up season 5 with our report cacrd episode. Sit down with J.T. and Cherese as they hand out gold stars along with some failing grades. _____________ Keep up with BIA on the socials and we'll make sure to keep up with y'all. IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813767

5.14 - Is Somebody Gonna Match My Geek 08/21/2024

5.14 - Is Somebody Gonna Match My Geek We're just letting our brains play around a but on this one. Wanna play along? Write down your own answers and if you feel like it, share em with us on social media. _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813647

5.13 - Not Built to Break with Quortne Hutchings 08/09/2024

5.13 - Not Built to Break with Quortne Hutchings Quortne Hutchings comes back to chat with us about recovery on college campuses. How do you extend community and make space for those in recovery? _____________ Content Disclosure - This episode includes frank discussion about drug use and recovery. Though conversation doesn't delve into intricate descriptions of drug use, we recognize that this informaiton may be useful for those wishing not to hear about the topic as they manage their own recovery. For more information on recovery resources visit: https://collegiaterecovery.org/recovery-resources/ _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813702

5.12 Gatekeeping & What the Culture Feelin 08/08/2024

5.12 Gatekeeping & What the Culture Feelin Cherese and J.T. are in the studio talking about certain aspects of culture and career that bump up against a lot of gatekeeping. Now do some of those gates need to be opened while others are kept... or compltely broken down? Let's get into it. _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813662

5.11 - Lift Every Chair and Swing 08/02/2024

5.11 - Lift Every Chair and Swing We're coming up on the anniversary of a truly sacred day. How do we commemorate the 5th of August? _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813757

5.10 The Big Three: Race, Gender, and Sport with Ajhanai "AJ" Keaton 07/31/2024

5.10 The Big Three: Race, Gender, and Sport with Ajhanai "AJ" Keaton The amazing Ajhanai Keaton joins us to share her expertise about race gender and sport. We had a great time chopping it up with her about everything from fashion in the W to getting beyond the "shut up and dribble" phase. _____________ Twitter - @ajhanaikeaton _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813682

5.9 Athletic Dept. Politics with Wayne Black 07/19/2024

5.9 Athletic Dept. Politics with Wayne Black We're talking sports, culture, and politics with Wayne Black. This short but sweet conversation was a fun one! _____________ To put the last few minutes into context, this episode was recorded post Euphoria and pre Megan album. _____________ _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813667

5.8 Campus Abolition with Charles H.F. Davis 07/17/2024

5.8 Campus Abolition with Charles H.F. Davis Charles H.F. Davis III joins us in the studio for an amazing conversation about the artistry in abolition and where we might fit in when it comes to our activism. Do professors and administrators become tools of oppression or can we offer ourselves in revolutionary service? Also, let's add to that playlist to our revolutionary soundtrack. _____________ Twitter/Instagram - @hfdavis _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813652

5.07 Gon' Be Alright with Reggie Blockett 07/12/2024

5.07 Gon' Be Alright with Reggie Blockett Doctor Reggie Blockett illuminates the mic and shares his research. We cover institutionalized heteronormativity, building community during research, and more. Through it all, Reggie asserts "it's not okay that we're not okay." and he helps talk through what's keeping us alright. Find him on instagram - @Regg313 _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813612

5.06 Are We Okay Yet? 07/10/2024

5.06 Are We Okay Yet? A simple question without any real answers. You're gonna hear many questions in this episode. If you have any answers or thoughts to share with us, please hit up our socials. We wanna hear from you. _____________ IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/32073937

5.05 Anti-Work with Sharla Berry 07/03/2024

5.05 Anti-Work with Sharla Berry What's the point of working ourselves to death? Sharla Berry gets on the mic to help us understand why working more/harder won't save us. _____________ Twitter - @Sharla_Berry _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813587

5.4 An Academic Kiki with Quortne Hutchings 06/28/2024

5.4 An Academic Kiki with Quortne Hutchings Friend of the pod, Quortne Hutchings joins us to talk about a Kiki Methodology. They are one of the voices helping to expand the ways this work is consumed and giving us more ways to express and understand a fuller spectrum of Blackness. _____________ Twitter - @DrQhutchings Read some of doctor Hutching's work: _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813547

5.03 Teaching For a Livin' : Dajanae Palmer & Mike Hankins 06/26/2024

5.03 Teaching For a Livin' : Dajanae Palmer & Mike Hankins What's it like to live in a blue State but teach in a red one? Do you feel the effects of legislation in the classroom or on campus? What are the invisible responsibilities we may take on when supporting our students? And how do we continue to live our lives through it all? We got more questions then answers, but Mike Hankins and Dajanae Palmer joined us in studio to talk about all of that and more. _____________ - LinkedIn - LinkedIn _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813537

5.02 Revisiting "De-criminalizing the Student Body" 06/21/2024

5.02 Revisiting "De-criminalizing the Student Body" We've been thinking about the ways students have been put in danger by their own school administrators and professors. There's a new wave of anti-activist voices turning on students who are protesting genocide and urging their schools to divest from war. This season one episode feels particularly pertinent right now. _____________ Original episode aired 010.29.2020 Featuring Dr. Subini Annamma and Dr. David Stoval _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813522

S5 e1 - We're Not Okay 06/19/2024

S5 e1 - We're Not Okay Weeee'reeee baaaa-aaack. Season 5 kicks off with Cherese, J.T., and producer Gloria hopping on the mic to introduce the season theme: we're not okay; is that okay? _____________ This episode was recorded when Angel Reese was still playing for LSU, Western social media was just just starting to raise awareness about the amalgamation of atrocities in the DRC, and all three of the team members had just had a good soul-deep cry. You've been disclaimered. _____________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31813187

We're Making You a Mixtape 06/04/2024

We're Making You a Mixtape Blacktivism in the Academy has season 5 ready to go for y'all and we can't wait for you to hear it. This season we have a theme: "We're not okay. Is that okay?" This is our longest season yet and we just know it'll be worth the wait. We're a lil off on our count. It's 15 episodes, but we know you'll love em. Get in touch with us to let us know your thoughts and to maybe even contriubute your voice to the mixtape! Twitter - @bia_pod Instagram - @biapod /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/31606272

4.16 Report Cards 03/30/2023

4.16 Report Cards J.T. and Cherese hop on the mic with Gloria and we chat about who gets these gold stars and who or what "needs improvement". We also look back on the season's theme to wonder how our thoughts have evolved when it comes to imagining new futures for higher education. ________________________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. _____ Production note: This episode has some wonky audio so if you tend to listen with headphones, you may notice more volume extremes and slight noise than usual. This one is best enjoyed through speakers. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/25662165

4.15 My President is Black with JT Minor 03/23/2023

4.15 My President is Black with JT Minor James T. Minor joins us to talk about his path to becoming SIUE's 10th chancellor (and first Black chancellor), his ethos of opportunity, and how he imagines a more ideal academy. From the eastside of Detroit to Jackson State to nation-wide leadership positions he gives us insight into his higher education experiences. Twitter - @JT_Minor Instagram - @JT_Minor10 _____________________ Find BIA on the socials IG - @biapod Twitter - @bia_pod As always, please rate and review us to help us out and make sure other folks can find the podcast too! Peace. /episode/index/show/blacktivismintheacademy/id/26318229

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