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Huzzah!

03.03.2026 23:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YES, we have officially, and finally, left X/Twitter.

03.03.2026 23:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

NO DUH!

03.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Vision Statement for Thinking, Writing, and Publishing Otherwise in the University without Condition – punctum books

Finally: Seek out stuff like the @punctumbooks.bsky.social vision statement. Academic writers need to get radicalized in their praxis, not just their theory.

punctumbooks.com/about/vision...

26.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

punctum books is BACK after a holiday hiatus & we have a new #OpenAccess book drop for you:

Lisa Samuels's IMAGINING WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, bringing together perception, ecology, community & quantum life, & featuring the art of Algeria, Australasia, the Caribbean & Oceania.

tinyurl.com/5cutbsyr

03.03.2026 22:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our Director is just returned from the #MLA26 meeting in Toronto where she wore this coat designed by a young Greenlander designer (label: Isaksen).

Never mind whether His Orange 🍊 Highness wants Greenland. Greenland should be returned to Greenlanders. We are all Greenlanders now.

16.01.2026 17:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elmo had to be IV-ed at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto after giving out too many hugs during #MLA26. Please give Elmo space at this time so he can keep hugging. We need his hugs right now. #catastrophe

14.01.2026 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And a wonderful time was had by all at #MLA26 in Toronto! Next year: MLA Los Angeles! Next stop: #AWP26 in Baltimore in March!

Never forget to FIGHT THE VANILLA ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX.

#FuckICE

11.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

We promise we will!

10.01.2026 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elmo is reading a punctum book at #MLA26 in Toronto. Why aren’t YOU?!?

Come visit us at Booth 402 in the Exhibits Hall for an Elmo HUG, to browse books, talk book ideas, get some swag, and never forget:

FIGHT THE ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

#OpenAccess #SOLIDARITY

10.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

HUGS. Your book sold out on Day 1 of MLA, btw!

10.01.2026 05:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Stay safe.

10.01.2026 05:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come visit our booth at #MLA26 in #Toronto! Books with genres so weird they can’t be described, Book Faggot totes, bookmarks, stickers, pins & we also have an emotional support Elmo for anyone who needs an #Elmo hug.

#OpenAccess

09.01.2026 19:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

punctum director Eileen Joy has her #MLA26 cufflinks on & is headed to the books exhibition for opening day. Good morning #Toronto!

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09.01.2026 02:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Amerikkka is now fully authoritarian. Frogs in boiling water, get yer asses out of the pot. Especially the albino frogs. Stand up and deliver. & thank you W. Kamau Bell.

09.01.2026 02:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poet, novelist, translator & scholar, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political & linguistic borders.

"FOLLOW THE PERSON": Archival Encounters now published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/ykeh7ebz

#poetry #activism #language #history

06.01.2026 18:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Get ready, Toronto. punctum is on the ground for #MLA26 & we’re setting up our books exhibit! We’re bringing limited edition Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, stickers, pins & of course BOOKS!

Keep it weird at MLA, keep it punctum, and never stop fighting the vanilla academic-industrial complex!

08.01.2026 18:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WORD. #AbolishICE

08.01.2026 03:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Indeed and well deserved.

08.01.2026 03:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you. Just, thank you.

08.01.2026 00:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2/ Every person in our country at any time, with or without “papers,” is a fellow human being deserving the utmost of our care, kindness, and respect. But whiteness is also a scourge in our country. We must work harder to eliminate whiteness as a criteria for anything good. We must betray whiteness.

07.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1/ We are not a country that respects the dignity of human beings, at home or abroad. There are no “illegals,” only citizens of Kristevas’s shaggy cosmopolis. Everyone should be at home when they leave home. This isn’t just about #Minneapolis.

FUCK @DHSgov & FUCK @ICEgov.

x.com/barbarismcri...

07.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Are you going to be at the #MLA26 convention in #Toronto this week? punctum books will have a booth & we would love to see you. Come by to browse & buy books, chat with our creative director about book ideas & grab some swag: Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, pins, stickers & more! #OpenAccess

06.01.2026 21:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poet, novelist, translator & scholar, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political & linguistic borders.

"FOLLOW THE PERSON": Archival Encounters now published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/ykeh7ebz

#poetry #activism #language #history

06.01.2026 18:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Are you going to be at the #MLA26 convention in #Toronto this week? punctum books will have a booth & we would love to see you. Come by to browse & buy books, chat with our creative director about book ideas & grab some swag: Book Faggot tote bags, bookmarks, pins, stickers & more! #OpenAccess

05.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This should be the playlist for Amerikkka 2026.

04.01.2026 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

As we skip together into the fresh hell of 2026, why not become a punctum subscriber and help us to publish & globally distribute open books that would not find a welcoming port elsewhere. Cause weird. Hashtag Keep It Weird.

punctumbooks.com/support/

#GIVE #books #OpenAccess #DONATE

02.01.2026 19:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With ONE day to go before we all lunge into the fresh hell of 2026, why not become a punctum subscriber and help us to publish & globally distribute open books that would not find a welcoming port elsewhere. Hashtag "keep it weird."

punctumbooks.com/support/

#GIVE #books #OpenAccess #DONATE

31.12.2025 19:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

a man with a bandage on his arm is sitting in a chair and says fine ALT: a man with a bandage on his arm is sitting in a chair and says fine

James Caan stuffing matches, knives, lighter fluid, and paper clips into his sweatpants in #Misery is all of us in America right now.

31.12.2025 03:35 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

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