Knowledge Commons | Frieda Ekotto | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/48104ek/activity/ Activity feed for Frieda Ekotto. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:31:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8228799188cdbb6ff1b2a1f71792a518 Frieda Ekotto wrote a new post, Still Waiting for a Visa, on the site From the President https://president.mla.hcommons.org/?p=1476 Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:59:44 -0400 Published in the Winter 2023 Newsletter.

The continually changing world demands that we rapidly reshape and redefine our relationships to others in both political discourse and cultural production. And yet the […]

]]> 100f0c4089a9396f12c2884588f87912 Frieda Ekotto wrote a new post, Black Is Beautiful, so Let’s Celebrate Black Women, on the site From the President https://president.mla.hcommons.org/?p=1466 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:16:42 -0500 Published in the Fall 2023 Newsletter.

The presidential theme for this year’s MLA Annual Convention is Celebration: Joy and Sorrow. My columns this year have therefore celebrated literary figures and c […]

]]> 5bbe85d0650c097e2fa1fa82db76d8a2 Frieda Ekotto wrote a new post, Mapping Possibilities: The Poetics of Queering Blackness, on the site From the President https://president.mla.hcommons.org/?p=1453 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:36:14 -0400 Published in the Summer 2023 Newsletter.

My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.

—Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals 

Our silence has been long and deep. . . . In canonical li […]

]]> 7fefc73fa35f5d32db292eeab74f08f6 Frieda Ekotto wrote a new post, Talking Race, on the site From the President https://president.mla.hcommons.org/?p=1441 Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:20:30 -0400 Published in the Spring 2023 Newsletter

As we grapple with a seemingly endless list of forms of violence (sexual and reproductive violence, violence against Indigenous people, transphobia, systemic racism, […]

]]> b7ef190a2c0e1669babc06eb9a279498 Frieda Ekotto changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/547093/ Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:24:40 -0400 0 42e3b9441184f0adf51831e85873c5df Frieda Ekotto posted an update: Wow, just tried this for the first time. I am getting ready […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/103913/ Wed, 06 May 2015 13:19:11 -0400 Wow, just tried this for the first time. I am getting ready to read for our Committee. I will get there...

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