Santhia Velasco Kittlaus

A Year in Reading 2025 | Granta Friends and contributors to the magazine share their year in reading.

Granta contributors and friends reflect on their year in reading.

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Sign the petition to end peat sales! No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.

Good morning, please can you share this petition by @peatfree.bsky.social to end peat sales - all previous petitions were for the Conservative Government, and we're now close to making this law with Labour so peat habitat can never be used again actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Straßenschild mit der Aufschrift 'Martha-Ndumbe-Platz' vor grünem Laub und blauem Himmel.

Berlin entwickelt Erinnerungskonzept zur Kolonialzeit.

Berlin will seine koloniale Vergangenheit sichtbar machen. Mit einem neuen Erinnerungskonzept sollen Denkmäler, Umbenennungen und ein Lern- und Erinnerungsort entstehen.
@decolonizeberlin.bsky.social

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Me holding up In A While Or Two We Will Find The Tone by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

This is amazing. What a teacher!

Schwarze Selbstermächtigung Die Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland hat ihr 40-jähriges Bestehen gefeiert. In Zeiten, in denen rechte Kräfte autoritäre Vergangenheitsbilder salonfähig machen, sind kosmopolitische Stimmen...

Wiederfinden kann Della seine Perspektive im Projekt heimaten, das von Ibou Diop und Max Czollek im HKW entwickelt wurde. Es widmet sich einer Neudeutung des Heimatbegriffs im Sinne einer pluralen Gesellschaft und macht die Arbeit zahlreicher Initiativen sichtbar.
www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195...

Veranstaltungen für Erwachsene - Berlin.de

Heute Abend 19 uhr lese ich mit Hadija in der Stadtbibliothek Treptow-Köpenick. Letzte Berliner Lesung 2025!

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When my friends wanted to be Hermione Granger, my 10-year-old self wanted to be like Iris Berben. Unattainable but still inspiring.

One black cat and an illustrated black creature are walking down a leaf-covered, cobblestone pathway lined with greenery. Fall leaves are scattered on the ground, and a fence is visible in the background.

This time of year, when the light grows soft and the streets lie crispy. 🍁

This is the book that has its own spot in my luggage. I finished reading it a while back. I am not ready to let go of it yet, so it lives near me.

British-Egyptian activist stopped from flying to UK, says family Egyptian authorities prevented Alaa Abd el-Fattah from attending human rights awards in London

On Tues, Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah attempted to fly to London to attend two conferences. He was stopped by authorities and told he could not travel.

It's been almost 2 months since Alaa was pardoned. It's time for him to be allowed to travel too www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Pour la dignité et la protection des personnes trans exilées Il est urgent que la France garantisse un accueil digne sur son territoire. Une tribune du collectif Flirt.

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Sei nicht stolz auf deine KI-Sachen.

Listening to Julius Asal’s Siena Tapes while people watching makes me like this world a little better

The catastrophic state of modern languages in this country! When I was doing my PhD in the 1980s, Nottingham was a real powerhouse for #German studies.

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Stony path through the woods in Tuscany on a mild and cloudy September day

Took my PhD worries on a hike and they couldn‘t keep up.

Eine ärgerliche Zeit, um ein Gehirn zu haben

Patti Smith on stage in Paris

Between conferences 🫶🏼

Sehnsucht nach Unterholz, Borke, Wabe, Nest.

Catch Chet'la Sebree on tour for her poetry collection Blue Opening (9.16.25).💙✨

“These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.”
—Publishers Weekly

Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...

Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...

Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
#freepalestine

Lieb ich 🫶🏼

Honoured to have presented my work on critical whiteness as part of the Black Literature and Culture in German panel, thoughtfully curated by @kirstingwyer.bsky.social, at this year’s
@ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.

Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? - Tin House Don’t miss today’s conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, whorls as worlds, of grammars of animacy, of what it mea...

I have been vicariously rivered. What a book! What an interview!

tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...

It has been such a pleasure to host this podcast for the past three years.

Pile of books I selected for my procrastination project

Off to another summer with Walter Benjamin - and my emotional support selection :)

Two pink roses coexisting, gently

Flower friendship

Research project at University Library uncovers more Nazi plunder than expected | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt First project on provenance research at the main library of Goethe University Frankfurt reveals further demand in this area – Successor project examines rare prints – Extensive stock from Baer’s […]

Mehr NS-Raubgut als gedacht: Ein Forschungsprojekt an der @goetheuni.bsky.social bringt zahlreiche geraubte Bücher ans Licht – u. a. aus jüdischem Besitz:

Ich möchte reich werden um möglichst viel Land aufzukaufen und das absolut verwildern zu lassen, das ist mein Traum