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A digital poster is seen. Against an LGBTQIA+ affirming background, text, as follows: WE'RE HIRING: PROJECTS COORDINATOR - CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR Department: Tier 1, Canada Research Chair (CIHR), Black Health Studies, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University Reports to: Location: Salary: Type: Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden Hybrid - based in Nova Scotia $52,516- $79,400 Full-time, 3 year contract PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN TO QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WHO IDENTIFY AS BLACK, AFRICAN NOVA SCOTIAN, OR AS A PERSON OF COLOUR Requirements ◦ Graduate degree (Master's or PhD) in relevant discipline •. Proven experience in project coordination and esearch, with strong budgeting and operational skills • Demonstrated engagement with diverse Black communities, including Black queer and trans communities • Exceptional communication, organization, and problem-solving abilities • Familiarity with university settings or similarly decentralised, complex organizations, including data governance principles and practices Apply here. Questions? Please email crcbkhs@dal.ca Dr. OmiSoore Dryden Tier 1 CRC Black Health Studies BLACK [QUEER] HEALTH MATTERS

If you are passionate about Black Queer and Trans Health, you can report to @drdryden.bsky.social if selected for this brilliant opportunity! 🫂

Please share widely in the hopes of it getting onto the radar of Black or African Nova Scotian folx with a grad degree and project coordination skills! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

a smack of transparent white jellyfish with red accents on a black background

Did y'all know a group of jellyfish is called a "smack"? also a swarm, smuth, fluther, brood, or bloom?

Still, liking SMACK the most, though.

The things you learn when writing...

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Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged.
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Daddy knows best, tho.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

ha, so cool :D

Inkwo for When the Starving Return This visionary stop-motion animated adaptation of Tłı̨chǫ Dene storyteller Richard Van Camp’s original short story is brought to life by Michif/Métis director Amanda Strong and Spotted Fawn Production...

I don’t know if you can watch it outside of Canada, but the NFB has some great short films up, including “Inkwo: for When The Starving Return” a really cool and spooky looking stop animated Indigenous futurist tale www.nfb.ca/film/inkwo-f...

Powerful and moving interview with Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky and sister-in-law Amanda:

"He's just Andrew. He's no longer a prince... This normal girl, from a normal family, has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her."

"She was extraordinary. She did the extraordinary."

So excited to be a part of this amazing line up! Congratulations to all the nominees!

To the GOP, everyone is 18.

Instagram is extremely confident that it knows what sort of images I would like to see

Leviathan @l3vlat4an X.com Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an "AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla. What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt? AUTISM

That she's cool as fuck?

Now, right now, the world is calling you to dig deeper than you ever have to demonstrate the best of humanity. There has never been a more important moment in our lifetimes than this to give with your whole hearts so the future generations can live in freedom.

The new writer scam hotness is the email that purports to be from a book club that meets on Zoom, who invites you to discuss [title of yours plucked from an AI database], and who needs you to pay a "small reservation fee" to participate. Gotten three just today. Fuck that noise, plonk it into spam.

By far the best standup comedy one liner of this stupid decade

Hello! I'm open to unsolicited submissions for the first time in ages...

Looking for: Adult Epic Fantasy and Horror only

Guidelines are here: www.dongwonsong.com/submission-g...

I wanted to watch The Materialists in theatres, but I missed it. Didn't want to pay $20 for it on Prime. Come to find out (from a Tik Tok), it's on Hoopla. Which I have access to for FREE because of my library card. Now I'm watching it from the comfort of my home, eating pasta. Support libraries.

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

We have an on-the-ground report from Chicago, where the ICE blitz has been met with a community response to protect residents. But some employers are using the abduction campaign to retaliate against and silence worker organizing. From @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social:

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee: 9780525509585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that...

RACISM COSTS EVERYONE, SHE SAID

WE ARE AT THE COSTING EVERYONE PART

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564989...

If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers.

sculpture of a rhino, an anthropomorphic female presenting rabbit and an anthropomorphic male presenting dog in their Sunday best riding a tandem bike, with an empty seat at the back for someone to sit on for photos with high rise cityscape in the background.

Had such an amazing time at Word on the Street Toronto! The panel about Escapism in Fiction that I was invited to join was such a great discussion, and I got to meet my Seventhblade editor @jenralbert.bsky.social and a bunch of othet awesome @ecwpress.bsky.social folks! It was a blast!

Bumping this again! If you’ll be looking for art for your project soon, let’s chat! 🧑🏻‍🎨

I've been invited to join the panel "The Grounding Power of Escapist Fiction" at 5pm on Saturday at Word on the Street Toronto. It's going to be a great discussion! toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca/events/the-g...

I'm joining a bunch of other amazing ECW authors this weekend at Word on the Street Toronto for signings! I'll be there at 11am!

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

Canadian politicians saying he was an advocate for free speech and how important that is, but in the same breath banning books in schools...something ain't computing.

send us your walking blood bags, about to burst