Arielle Zibrak

This company is so forthright about their own violence.

Homes Still Aren’t Designed for a Body Like Mine Why is it so hard for disabled people to find safe, accessible places to live?

“I’ve been disabled for 14 years,” Jessica Slice writes, “but have never lived somewhere safe where I can use all (or even most) of the rooms.” She reports on the indignities of seeking housing when exclusion is built into the architecture:

I'm a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement's biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too A pro-vaccine physician went to the anti-vaccine movement's biggest gathering. He warns that public health must learn what it's up against.

Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social attended the Children’s Health Defense conference last weekend in Austin, Texas. Follow the link to read his sobering report on a movement he says is "exceptionally organized, disciplined, and determined."⤵️

Cover of Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America by Juan Carlos Mezo González. Cover features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers. The title is in verlaid text in a large white font with the subtitle in a smaller cream font below it. The author's name is at the bottom right in yellow font. There is a faint overlay of typed text across the entire image.

In "Gay Print Culture," Juan Carlos Mezo González @jcmezo.bsky.social investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada through the 1970s-90s. #LGBTQStudies Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/LdyHSFV

Levine’s “Forms” & now “The Activist Humanist” are compelling and this interview was fantastic. For English educators & teacher educators trying to transcend the (false) binary between teaching form & social justice, her work offers an entirely new/innovative approach to both.

This is a really good piece

I am always trying to tell my family this FACT. Preach.

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

Where can lefties improve?

I think knowledge about Christian nationalism is a big gap with progressives, lefties, socialists, etc. This is a problem because it means that people aren't always strategizing around the opposition we actually face.

Here are my recs for self-ed 🧵

The Best American Essays 2025 Check out The Best American Essays 2025 - <p>&#8220;The essay has taught me how to live,&#8221; writes Jia Tolentino, this year&#8217;s <em>Best American Essays</em> guest editor. In a time of escalat...

Spent last night with this soul shattering and strengthening volume edited by Jia Tolentino. Christina Sharpe! Carolyn Forché! Eula Biss! Nuar Elsadir! (Just some of my own favorites.) Floored to see my own essay in notables. Link to it in comments. xx

"16 acres of scrubby pasture on the outskirts of Salt Lake City where the state plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people in what supporters call a services campus and critics deem a detention camp."

Let's not argue over semantics.

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

“ “Who heals a wound that continually opens itself?”- Kara Walker www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@notquitehydepark.bsky.social: Vendler led a feminist life, but she could never follow the banner of feminist literary criticism, labeled as such, in her lifetime: she wanted poems true to the complications (and the tragedies) that pervade our real lives, rather than allegories of right and wrong.

100%. My hot literary take is that literary fiction IS a genre, just like science fiction, horror, mystery etc. The way lit fic is treated in western culture as though it is not a genre (those awful unwashed genre masses!) is disturbingly similar to how white people are thought not to have a color.

A Literary Tour of the United States Journey from sea to shining sea to discover the richness and diversity of American writing in this deeply researched literary road trip.

I learned so much about Chicago and its history researching Lecture 15. Thinking today of Bronzeville, Humboldt Park, Little Village and what they meant to writers like
Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Sandra Cisneros to name a few-- to US literary history as a whole.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

"The Silicon Valley heavyweight drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including the French-American theorist René Girard, whom Thiel knew at Stanford University, and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs."

The NAR Vows to Stage the Largest-Ever Gathering of Christian Women Last year on Yom Kippur, leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation staged an all-day rally in support of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency called A Million Women. As was the case with the Million M...

Folks watching global alt-right feminism, this is set for the 25th.
@reproutopia.bsky.social @milleridriss.bsky.social @fanniebialek.bsky.social @bardolator.bsky.social @katerqburns.bsky.social

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Black and white image showing a nubile woman, in deshabille, reclining on the Celestial Bed, a kind of couch with a canopy over it. Statue of Mercury in a niche behind her.

With its "medico-electrical apparatus," was Dr. James Graham's "celestial bed" in his "Temple of Health" in 1779 London a prototype for DJT's "med bed"?
There are just too many ways in which the #18thc is a useful guide to the hucksterism of 2025 America.
daily.jstor.org/the-prince-o...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Leaning In to State Violence - Sophie Lewis interviewed by Aya Gruber - Inquest In ‘Enemy Feminisms,’ philosopher Sophie Lewis engages with the feminism of racists, colonizers, fascists, cops, and jailers to better understand what a truly liberatory politics needs to look like.

"When feminist struggles enter phases of rapprochement with the state, they throw Indigenous, 'deviant,' Black, sexualized, sex-working women and other gender minorities under the bus." @reproutopia.bsky.social talks with Aya Gruber about truly abolitionist feminism.

Come hang with us! I am going to show pictures of "Live, Laugh, Love" art and explain how Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poetry impacts your own personal and specific life.

Japanese American Incarceration Survivors Remember What the US Forgot During WWII, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act and incarcerated 125,000 Japanese Americans. Eighty years later, some of the camps’ last survivors reflect on lives scarred by injustice.

Two survivors — George Takei and Jo Anne Naka — recall living in the horse stables at the Santa Anita racetrack before they were moved to their incarceration camps.

Read THE AGE OF INCARCERATION to learn more about Japanese American incarceration from some of the last survivors of it.

Realism’s Vexed Relations with the Popular Abstract. This essay assesses the centrality of popular idioms such as sentimental sympathy (discussed by Faye Halpern’s The Afterlife of Sympathy) and soc

Lovely to see my book reviewed alongside Faye Halpern's in a review essay on realism by Melanie Dawson in ALH. (Two scholars I so admire!) Unfortunately I don't have institutional access yet. Can anyone out there DM a pdf?
academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

#academicsky

Is Christine Baranski literally just the reincarnation of 19th- century New Thought novelist Clara Louise Burnham?

Catch me at the Mahindra center next month! The first lecture in the series by Kendra Field was extraordinary. This will be ok. If you can't make it and want to hear about eugenic feminism and positive thinking, invite me to your spot.

mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/ariell...

I think we've all had way too much screen time and should be made to play outside for the rest of the year.

No Avoiding It: Post-Kirk, We Have to Learn About the Groyper Wars We still don’t know Tyler Robinson’s motivation. But we know we need to learn about the Charlie Kirk–Nick Fuentes Armageddon, dammit.

Groypers, gopniks, and the Kirk-Fuentes beef.

The American right is one nutty hospital. Me @newrepublic :

newrepublic.com/article/2004...

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