Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
- Sending love to all those struggling on this Mother's Day. We see you. 💐 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
- As someone whose lungs are messed up from growing up in a working class industrial Detroit neighborhood, this makes my blood boil. Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. would say that it's our fault for having these chronic conditions instead of... well, racist environmental policy.
- The reason why I cry listening to these old songs isn't because I want to return to the past. It's through music that I get to bear witness to all my past selves. I can see the girl and woman I used to be. She doesn't know I'm there. I know my future self is here, right now, watching these tears.
- Thankful that Rumeysa is free. Thankful that she is alive.
- A champion for libraries and literacy! Dr. Hayden deserves better than to be at the mercy of this rogue administration.
- What better day to launch a Bluesky account than our birthday? We turn 225 today! 🎂 🥳 Here's a brief summary of the Library's history, courtesy of Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress. www.loc.gov/about/histor...
- Great thread. I don't think we've fully grappled with these implications in grad ed (graduate education). Until the mid-2000s in my field, 20 page final seminar papers were standard, as were substantive weekly written responses. In the early 2010s, my first doctoral class balked. I adjusted...
- Reposted by Ebony Elizabeth ThomasAbsolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it! Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
- Reposted by Ebony Elizabeth ThomasI have been recommending that people join the Debt Collective for many years and truly there's no better time than NOW.
- OAN, I am trying to learn more about Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré. African leaders rarely make the news here, so I didn't know he was instrumental in the Alliance of Sahel States. Western countries / former colonizers have been stamping out pan-Africanism forever. Leave Mama Africa alone!
- Reposted by Ebony Elizabeth ThomasI've thought about this a lot. What if today's AI-dependent young people will end up in memory care a lot earlier, thanks to not taking the effort to exercise their brains.
