Chris Taylor

It hasn’t crossed into full on conservative mainstream yet, but it will

Far-right nonsense. It’s picking up mainstream MAGA energy

We’re about two months away from post-1857 Rebellion levels of anti-Indian racism here and it’s going to be very bad and look very weird

My general unarticulated sense is the first Trump go-round would’ve been way more intellectually productive and less annoying if liberals waded into late early modern “end of the republic” lit and stayed away from post-WW2 neofascism lit

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize - Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpubl...

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A Return to Leftist Self-Defense Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.

For those who missed it, here is my recent article for Yes Magazine about the returning need for community self-defense on the left. With rising state repression and far-right violence, communities need to find a way to keep themselves safe.
www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

i am tired of your tim snyder quotes 😬

Okay in that case my laughing at your dutifulness to the record was earned. You are officially responsible enough to transcribe old texts after the apocalypse because we have proof that you won’t silently correct grammatical errors

Hey friends can I ask you all to follow @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , an excellent project that facilitates artists, scholars, & others leading workshops where all receipts provide desperately needed support to Gazans?

Never listened to Rachmanninoff’s Liturgy of St John C before and I really wasn’t prepared for it when I casually threw it on

Are you using an app that posts to twitter and here at the same time?

hahaha when I see this, “wear your love like heaven” immediately plays in my head

Does…the Atlantic writer not get that Michael’s hatred of Toby is played as comically deranged

(I didn’t in or you were here!)

I would say you can’t tell me what to do but you can in fact tell me what to do

So, no gentle teasing? And anyhow I don’t understand what the metric of going well even would be. I’m posting little thoughts to friends. There’s nothing to get out of the communicative situation

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

you could ask your library to order if you want

Lol

Kevin, I found your post funny—hilarious, as I said—not threatening, because underspecifed impersonal description of an outcome is the idiom of a cartoon villain

Okay

It’s funny! The phrasing is so ominous

“It’s not going to go well” exudes hilarious villain energy over a little website where friends post random little thoughts

I would just like to point out that this particular kind of grief is famously not “unspoken”

Wearing my partner’s Bernie 2016 tshirt at the gym, wanting to explain that my politics are way more annoying than that

I'm thrilled to report that my book has been nominated for the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association's Marilyn Gaull Book Award, "conferred annually in recognition of the most outstanding monograph, biography, or scholarly edition reviewed during the previous year." Exciting!

I’ve had enough blood taken from me over 10 months of weekly therapeutic phlebotomy to have completely exsanguinated me a bit more than twice. Today I learned my iron and ferritin levels are now like normies’ without a genetic iron thing. It remains funny that “bleed them!” is the best treatment

(I don’t listen to things that aren’t niche pods so I have no idea about the multimedia awards. Read all the traditional press pieces and they’re good)

The AAR doing awards for good journalism covering the subject area of a largely academic org (religion, here) is a thing all major academic orgs should do. Great writing

https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/Publications-and-News-/Newsroom-/News-/2023/2023-Journalism-Awards.aspx