the end
nubian on Dec 18th 2006
as of today, i will no longer update blackademic.com.
i appreciate the readers who have made this blog what it is today.
thank you.
-kortney ryan ziegler
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nubian on Dec 18th 2006
as of today, i will no longer update blackademic.com.
i appreciate the readers who have made this blog what it is today.
thank you.
-kortney ryan ziegler
Filed in Uncategorized |
Dammit! I just found you. Best of luck in whatever happens for you now.
I am so disappointed, what are you future plans for blackademic?
Apologies for being absent from commenting about the place for a long time (I might have missed a few blog wars along the way) Is there any reason or just had enough ? I totally respect your decision and wish you all the best in everything you do. And if you decide to carry on here, I’ll be leaving your feed in my rss reader for a long time yet. Take care you, I hope we will be seeing you around in one way or another
DD
Will miss you terribly!!!!! Take care and like deviousdiva said, hope we see you around.
I am so sad that you’ll be leaving. I just found you as well. Best of luck to you in your pursuits. You are a wonderful young lady. Godspeed.
Are going to start over someone where else? If you decide to come back or ty anothermoniker, I’m alsways over at BlackAmazon’s.
thanks guys. i’m just not in the healthiest place emotionally right now to barely get through school. it’s for the best. i had a good run.
you’re the bomb, kortney. i like your spirit. i hope we get to connect more day, get to talk, share more. i’m going to miss your words. i know school can take every ounce of energy–yay grad school–and i’m really glad you’re doin what you gotta do. but please do lurk on occasion at rabfish.blogspot.com! much respect and love, rabfish
your voice will be missed. Best of luck with your studies. And, thank you for sharing yourself with us.
peace,
Storm
**sigh**
You’re such an important voice. I look forward to hearing it in other ways, or just knowing that you are still making change and being your good self out there in the world. Best of luck figuring out all your stuff.
Lately a lot of bloggers have bitten the dust. YOu have a very important voice in the bloggershere. I will miss you soooooooo much.
I’d just found you not long ago…via someone else…and everytime I find the blog of someone who makes me THINK, it disappears. =(
*going to sulk*
You know we all respect what you have to do and we’re behind 100%. You have all of our prayers.
the blog will stay here. i own the domain. i just don’t have the time to update it. nor do i desire to. i apologize. like i said, i am not in the best emotional space to pay attention to the online world. i can barely pay attention to the real world.
awww girl. girlgirlgirlgirl. we was girls together, you know?
i’ll miss you like crazy.
xo
oh hell no
I gotta say, I totally understand the need to get away from staying on top of the online world. I’m pretty sure that if I had tried to do so when I was in grad school I wouldn’t have made it! And this wasn’t all THAT long ago, I just pretended that I didn’t know there was such a thing as blogs (they were at a nascent stage so it wasn’t hard). I hope you get into a better emotional place soon- for your own self! You are fab person and as others have said, your voice is so important, I know it’ll be out there, somewhere doin your thing.
Thank you, nubian. Thank you so much for using your voice. Healing blessings to you, sister.
I feel you.
{{{{{HUGS}}}}}
may not have agreed with everything posted here, but I appreciated the opportunity to listen to a point of view different from my own. Having watched friends go through the grad school thing, I completely understand. Peace.
Damn. I feel you. You know I’ma miss you on here right? I too really appreciate the inspiration you spark. I know I’ll be hearing from you/about you again. A book, film, or something amazing will be concieved by you and it’ll feel like i’m on your blog again.. just on a whole other level..
You will truely, truely, truely be missed.. :*(
~Rosa
Good luck with everything! Hang in.
Go and be a docttor already!!!! You have bigger fish to fry. Just know that you have a world of sisters that support you and wish you well.
Since I’ve just found you, I feel especially unfortunate. I’ll miss you… blogging these days just seems to be falling apart for a lot of people. I wish you the best of luck in your academics and otherwise. It was academics like yourself blogging that inspired me to do the same. Thank you.
Kortney.
do what you gotta do for you. You made a difference, you made an impact and no doubt, you’ll keep doing that wherever you are.
Here’s hoping that your present issues get sorted, you don’t have to continue blogging but you do have to have a decent offline life.
I wish you much happiness, much joy and much peace.
-Soul (one of your many admirers)
I have loved reading your blog and all of the comments. Good to know there are peole like you in the world, and other people who appreciate you.
Take care of yourself. May you have peace.
oh girl, go pamper yourself and nurture your life…it’s lovely! XOXO, india
Chica we still need to do lunch. So drop me a line. I’ll miss ya!
!!!
I will really miss reading you. Kick some good old-fashioned grad school ass.
I can’t ask for the blog at the expense of the well-being of the blogger. Take care of yourself, survive the grad school experience, and know you’ll be missed.
Stay strong!
* plays old Linda K Starr*
And I’ll miss you like crazy!
Do what’s best for yoou future Dr.Ziegler.
Mis syou much man
Best of luck with the studies - no need to feel sorry about letting this go, becoming a doctor and coping with life is more than enough.
Glad the site’s staying - I’m still catching up and learning things.
Hope things get better for you soon.
Damn.
Oh No-o-o-o-o-o! Dang n’ I just discovered your blog not too long ago. Well sista, I have to say I always wondered how grad students were able to maintain a blog spot and succeed academically. All the best to you my love. I truly have enjoyed your words and perspective. I have never posted on this blog before, I don’t think. I do think it’s appro-po that I do so now. May the turbulence or unease or whatever not so good emotional space clear the way to light, being present and doin’ Sh*# RIGHT!
Gwon with your bad self, as my generation would say, and make us proud, Sista gal.
Much respect and love,
Che
a warrior in the Audre Lorde sense
That sound you just heard was my jaw dropping to the floor. Damn, but like everyone else, good luck.
And happy belated birthday
thank you for the time you did spend in bloglandia. i enjoyed reading your posts. and i hope to read lengthier pieces from you (in the form of journal articles or books) in the future!
thank you for all you brought here.
take care, be well, and godspeed with what ever is next.
-sly
best of luck on your journey.
Shannon is trying to send you good energy and stuff.
I will miss your presence; I’m sure you will continue to contribute to the cause via your writing.
sw
Good luck with school! As someone who almost didn’t make it past year one of the Ph.D., I can tell you, it will get better. You’ll finish coursework and whatever crappy/wierd/conservative/fucked up dynamics going on in the department you’ll just get to ignore and focus on your own work. Or maybe since you’re in an AfAm program all is beautiful and it’s only your own demons you’re facing. But I visited Northwestern’s English dept as a prospie, and it definitely seemed to have some of the cons of other big universities. . .
anyway, very best of luck to you. I can’t wait to watch your movies
Mujer this blog stuff can wear you down and we gotta live in the real world too. take care of you and gracias for all you have done and continue to do
Mala
Thank you for your honesty and perseverance. You wrote from the heart even when people tried to tear you down. You always tried to build community where others tried to spread divisiveness.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Didi
You made an impact, you made a difference that is something special. All the best in whatever you do next and yes thank you!
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I know you’ve been thinking about this for a long time. Take care of yourself. We’ll miss you.
Sorry to hear it, nubian. You do what you need to do to take care of yourself; hopefully soon you’ll be in a better place.
chica, you will be missed in this sometimes crazy big bad blog world. First thing first, taking care of you. I hear you…take care, and to echo what some folks have said here, I know I will hear from you in articles, books and film.
Much love and respect,
Fabi
I’ll really miss your voice, Kortney/nubian.
Heart
The blogoshpere is much richer because of you.
As we say in Yoruba, A o pade ara wa ni ayo ati alafia (Not sure I have the translation right) Let us look forward to the day we will greet each other with joy and happiness.
Your fan from the People’s Republic of Berkeley
Take care. Offline is much, much more important than online, always.
Very sorry to hear this. Take care of yourself and I hope you feel better soon.
I hope you find a better place emotionally. I’ve been there (law school). Big up for even managing to keep up such a wonderful site, period! I don’t have half the energy, creativity or desire you do K.
I’ll check back in the future, in case you ever change your mind!
–Don’t forget to put on some Nina. I downloaded a remixed & reimagined album the other day…check out Aint Got No/I got a Life.
– Try some Ma Rainey too!
Hey, mujer, take care out there in the real world.
You have had a great run.
You’re a Sag too? I just had my birthday yesterday. Send me your address and I’ll knit you a scarf or a hat to keep you warm out there. Big snow must be coming, ’cause it’s sure raining here!
aw geez! i’m pretty late in catching up with my blog reading and what do i find but this sad news. i understand the need to take care of yourself (that is far more important than blogging). if i don’t hear from you at all, tho, i may start harrassing you on myspace;) hope you are feeling better soon, nubian. know that i’m always here if you need to chat.
Thank you for blogging, nubian.
Take care of yourself.
Take care. Hope you feel better soon.
Nubian, as has been made abundantly clear, you will be greatly missed. I know I will and look forward to meeting you somewhere/somehow in this academic world that we inhabit (for better or worse; haven’t figured that one out yet). I’ll be looking out for you; know this.
You are going to continue to rock this world. You can’t help it. I look forward to seeing you do so in new ways even if I’m sad to see you leave blogging.
Peace.
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It was great reading you.
i am sorry to see you go and I wish you the best. I have loved reading you. take care and best wishes!
I’m glad that you’re doing what you need to in order to take care of yourself, but I’ll miss your writing. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us.
I made some of my first comments as a blogger on your site. I feel blessed to have been able to read your thoughts. Good luck in Chicago.
Cheers.
Best wishes in all things. I really appreciated this website. I’m a blac(k)ademic, too, but would never have had the guts or ability to write a blog that was so honest.
peace,
B
I’ll add my voice to the chorus of well-wishes and farewells…
Hope you kick some academic ass, and come out shining. Take care of yourself.
Hope I see your name on some awesome articles in the years to come!
Take care, nubian. I wish you all the best. Your blog will be missed.
I’ve only known of you for a brief time, but I am honored to have known of you, and I greatly appreciated your presence in the political blogosphere. The world doesn’t hear from us enough, sister.
Take care of yourself, and be blessed.
Yolanda
We’ll miss you, but I definitely understand: grad school (and life) can be like that.
Thank you for all your blogging and heart, Nubian. Hope to meet you in person one day. Best wishes.
Damn. Just decided to return to the blogosphere, so I got this news a little late. And sad news it is. Well, sad for all of us, but good for you - you know best how to take care of yourself, so I’m glad you’re doing it. Maybe we’ll see you around one day in a future - a butch can hope!
Oh, damn. I am a couple weeks too late.
Nurture those spirits, and I will light a candle for you.
Peace to you.
ho.lee.shiz. damn K, I just found you a couple of months ago. This is the third blog by a black sistah that is retiring in the last damn month. I hope you’ll keep us posted as to your other plans. But if not…warmest regards, best wishes and much success on your journey. You’ve made a difference.
Thanks for every single word you’ve written here. I’ve throughly enjoyed reading you over the past 9 months. Take good care of yourself.
I only discovered your blog recently, and have been inspired by it. I’m really sorry to see it end - but I wish you all the best in your life, and look forward to hearing from you again in whatever form that may take. It’s great that you are looking after yourself, and doing what you need to do. That’s a message to us all.
Take care
Obsidian
Sending you all best wishes, karma, etc.
Buena suerte!
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Thank you. An extra thank you for the recent Nina clip. Best of luck.
So sorry to see you go. Hope we are fortunate enough to see more of your work soon. Peace & prosperity for the future. x
Thank you very much for your blogwriting and hosting, and good luck in your studies and rest-of-real-life. Here’s to your future filmmaking career! And thanks for the excellent blogroll.
I found your site just a few months ago (really, I started reading blogs at all just a few months ago), but I’ve never commented here, so I figure I ought to take the opportunity now. Thank you so much, for everything you’ve written here. As a new reader, I’m lucky to still have plenty of archives to look back through, and thus plenty more opportunity to learn from you. I look forward to the work you’ll produce in the rest of your career, as well.
Meanwhile, wishing you healthier emotional places and tons of success in school and the rest of life…
[…] There are others out there. I don’t read Rachel, George, or the folks at Blackprof, much less regular readers like the folks at Democracy and Hip Hop and Maxambit as often as I would like. I finally beat the crap out of the chapter that I’ve been wrestling with for well over a year. But I haven’t spent much time talking about the difficulties of writing. And even though I imagine there aren’t that many young black professors dealing with the intellectual life, a wife, AND five homeschooled kids, I don’t really talk about family much. Folks like Dell Gines, Blac(k)ademic, and Lynne Johnson, have either gotten out of the game, or at least shifted gears, because being a blogger in 2006 requires more than just “writing some stuff.” And even though I don’t consider myself a blogger, but rather a professor who maintains a blog, I have to figure out a way to get more mileage out of this thing…and to provide more value for those who stumble into my space. […]
This makes me sad.
That’s a damn shame. We need more sisters to blog.
Wow. Take care of yourself and know that you have folks ready when or if you decide to come back.
Wow. I just linked to this site from feministing.com, I was so excited when I saw the site’s name, and this is the first entry I saw
More’s the pity…..
I hope that you get the opportunity to center yourself and focus on your immediate objectives.
Certainly this will not be the last we hear from you and greater things are to come.
You have left an undeniable impact on your viewership and in the end regardless of how anyones message is perceived by others it is what it means to those that need your message that matters most.
Great fortune in all that you do.
In humility and sincerity.. I truly wish u the best
NYOIL
Dayum! I was outta the country for 3 weeks at the year’s beginning so I missed this development.
I just posted about the Black pro-life MIT prof going on hunger strike and my first thought was “I wonder what blac(k)academic thinks?”
I think we should try and find some way to have a collective blog…
Oh how I wish this forum were active now, so that we could intelligently discuss the ‘08 presidential candidates!
:)
I just found you as well!
I hope that you keep it up. You have the mind and soul of those like Shirley Chrisholm and Gloria Steinem.
it’s beautiful.
I hope to see your name pop up in the near future.
how is your documentary coming along?!
i just read the piece in colorlines about how you stopped updating this blog. i remember reading this blog a year ago and, damn, it was fresh. I remember then too all the jerks with their wack comments. i volunteer with indymedia centers and we get the same shit day in and day out. haterz everywhere. i would think its cointelpro, but nah, its just the state of our movement today.
anyways, one day, i think you should put it all together in some format and publish it in a book. really. i think its a treasure of writing, this here blog.
peace,
onto
I’ve enjoyed reading here, thank you and good luck to you.