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*correction, one was a PhD student

Oh, this is a bewildering thing to learn about. It doesn't make up for it but two different professors asked me to recommend queer Caribbean writing and I included your work. 💜

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Registering in the hope I'll have electricity and internet back up by this date, post-Melissa. 🥹

The lecture is free. In person and live streaming.

Canada is so lucky. 🥲

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Weapons: Julia Garner 😍. I don't think there's much there there thematically.

Nashville: I love when a hyped film meets if not surpasses its rep.

Nosferatu: A rewatch because I read Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen.

High and Low: See Nashville. That blocking!

#FilmSky #LastFourWatched

Ah, I do always lose steam in the first half. Knowing it was done for a purpose later revealed is encouraging. 😅

Thank you, I need all the good vibes. 😅 I made it through Lathe of Heaven in audio which I liked well enough. Unfortunately, the narrator for Dispossessed, at least the copy the library has, sounded so robotic. Which, combined with the prose...sigh. Eyeballs it is.

Here I go in my third attempt to read The Dispossessed x Ursula K. Le Guin in the hopes that it sticks this time. 🪐📚💙

Oh don't be sorry! And take care of yourself, that's the most important thing.

Omg you're back! I've been worried about you. I hope you're doing okay and it was just a well-deserved break.

“Turn my body into art.
(Tell me you’re obsessed.)
Cuz I think that it’s the best part.
(We can make a mess…)
.. While I try to fix my broken heart. 🎶”

These vocals over this rock arrangement is INSANE.

(🎶: Jair Faria)

Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’

Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I hate group work.

how does one survive flexing this hard

Every time I start to read submissions I forget how much I love to read submissions. My friends do not understand it, maybe I am delusional, but I genuinely do.

And that's fine, I'm here for nonsense, let's just be honest about what's going on.

Whenever adult readers complain about the stupid decisions YA protagonists make we are admonished for imposing adult expectations on titles not for us. But I'm sorry, some authors are telling lies on these children in order to prop up nonsensical plots.

COVER REVEAL!!! Our anthology of Indigenous Futurisms <3333

Thanking her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the market women of Haiti, and the enduring spirit of Haiti itself, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social accepts the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social

🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! 🏆

She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)

#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize

Saving Face really is that movie. #FilmSky

In the Spring 2025 issue of ArabLit Quarterly (GRIEF) -- coming in five days -- we make a shared space to grieve and to build together from that grief.

"May what we mourn propel us toward our collective liberation." - guest editor Abdelrahman ElGendy

also a ton of movies streaming live on their site this week! www.criterionchannel.com/free-movie-w...

Three photo collage of the title frame of the film, a blurred photo of a black woman's bared fangs, and the title detail from Due's book cover.

Did a tiny post on a few of the connections between the film Ganja & Hess, directed and written by Bill Gunn, and the novel My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due. www.instagram.com/share/_kpWIW...

I thought it was fun and tried to do some interesting things, which is more than you can say for basically any Star Wars property since 1980 not called Rogue One or Andor

Thinking a lot about what it takes to create persuasive world building. I try these books that purport to depict oppressive matriarchies in some fashion and can never buy into it. I can't connect it to anything real and the author never does the work needed to make the world persuasive.