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Photo of part of a bouquet of flowers. Showing a pink scabiosa, purple anemone and dark purple ranunculus. Also showing part of a framed drawing, the head of figure and part of a kerosene lamp.

Some small and necessary beauty.

Journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort arrested in connection with church protest against ICE Lemon's attorney said he was taken into custody by federal officers Thursday night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards.

"As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I'm being arrested for that," Indipendent journalist Georgia Fort said. "It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press."

"Even though the material conditions might hold you down, they're not representative of the aesthetic or intellectual conditions."

Dionne Brand

installation view of 'Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective' at the Museum of Modern Art

a lithograph by Ruth Asawa of a reddish pink peony against a background of dark blue

Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...

Minor Music at the End of the World — Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Internationaal Theater Amsterdam is one of the leading lights in Dutch theatre, with a large ensemble of world famous actors and a pioneering team of directors.

Saidiya Hartman's "Minor Music…", asks:

What kinds of dwelling, refusal and collectivity might emerge in a moment marked by ecological collapse, authoritarianism, human fungibility and the dismantling of academic& artistic freedoms?

Features Andre Holland, Okwui Okpokwasili & film by Arthur Jafa.

The Interview: Saidiya Hartman “For centuries, we have named the vice in which we are held captive. The question is whether others are willing to know what we know.”

Saidiya Hartman's latest work, Minor Music at the End of the World (2025), is a collaboration with Sarah Benson inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois science fiction short story, ‘The Comet’ (1920), about the last Black man left on Earth after the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

It asks… 1/🧵

#BlackSky #Lit #Art

Y'all, @dukepress.bsky.social legendary fall sale is on right now

50% off with code FALL25 on all available books and journal issues from Oct 20 - Nov 9, 2025

A great time to get both Alchemy lecture volumes, including

"Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" #Lit #Blackademics #BookSky

Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

“What should we talk about when so many words exist to destroy us? How to speak the language words that deny us, & realize us in capture, humiliation, wound, or murder?” - Natalie Diaz

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.

In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8

Safaricom propaganda is deadly. FTS.

“It’s no longer one war but many, all happening at the same time, feeding into each other. In all of them, the same pattern: armed groups taking, punishing, and controlling.” Moe Kadana (pseudonym) about the Sudan war in Iss. 209 of @thecontinent.org

More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

“I am so busy. So caught up with living.”

At the Full and Change of the Moon, Dionne Brand

The Hidden Life of Modal Verbs - JSTOR Daily A linguist explains why we get so distracted by the fiery language of politics, while ignoring urgent information reported by scientists.

I love the subjunctive (Alchemy 📖Cristina Rivera Garza!) AND modal verbs for similar reasons.

"[modal verb's] very presence messes up simple, direct statements by introducing very confused human feelings of uncertainty, possibility, obligation, permission, and ability into the mix."

#LangSky

URGENT: Facing Closure in Two Months, Please Shop to Keep the Dorchester Food Co-op Open — Dorchester Food Co-op Urgent: Facing Closure in Two Months, Please Shop to Keep the Dorchester Food Co-op Open Dear Dorchester Food Co-op Member-Owners, Please, support what you own : now and each week , the Co-op...

The Dorchester Food Co-op is struggling to keep up cash reserves right now. Shop there if you can, and/or donate please #boston #food
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Sudan, Congo, & What You Can Do Humanitarian catastrophes are increasing before our eyes—here's how you can help counter the injustice

A reminder that Sudan is entering stage 5 famine. I wrote this detailed piece months ago and it is still relevant on how you can get involved and support those who are needlessly suffering in Sudan.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
www.qasimrashid.com/p/sudan-cong...

Cover of Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance by Deborah A. Thomas. The collage-style artwork features layered images of a central figure, a Black woman in a historical headwrap and blouse, and pants made of newspaper clippings. Her hands lay atop the surface of what might be a drum, that has been superimposed with a black and white photograph. Behind her is a masculine silhouette in a solid black color, though flecked with stars. At the bottom, rows of small, identical images of women in red and blue skirts appear in procession.

In "Exorbitance," anthropologist Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eP7HVCR

“…for those of us who ultimately desire a borderless world, the nation-state paradigm is the biggest obstacle to its achievement.” ~ Rinaldo Walcott briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.