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S.J. Pearce

@homophonous.bsky.social

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Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · Jul 21

Here’s the pre-order link for my poetry chapbook, Incident Names, out with @finishinglinepress.bsky.social in November. It’s discounted now but I know individual book budgets are tight, so I’d love it if folks suggested their local libraries order a copy! www.finishinglinepress.com/product/inci...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 4h

I read this wordplay thing when I was a kid (Gardner? Lederer?) about a old man who goes to see his curate nephew preach a sermon & has a heart attack when he glances at the scribbled notes and reads “Uncle and I shall owe devil” — mis-spacing “Unclean, dishallowed evil.” I think about this A LOT—

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 5h

One of my UG professors swore she was never going to write another book after she finished the one in progress and her daughter, then about fifteen, helpfully piped up: “You say that after *every* book, mom.”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 6h

Me: after I finish this essay, I’m never writing again

5yo: yaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 10h

This is fine. 🤦🏻‍♀️

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 10h

*and* it’s not going to stop there, so my coreligionists who think they they can protect themselves by agreeing with Trump policy should stop deluding themselves.

The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is suggesting that Jewish groups critical of its foreign policy vis a vis Israel are engaging in terrorism.

This is appalling politicization of the term and gross executive overreach.

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

The threatened crackdown is a multi-agency effort with Stephen Miller playing a central role.

www.reuters.com

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · Jan 20

Paul Hoover Alternative Press poetry postcard, 1990s

Paul Hoover Alternative Press poetry postcard reading “OPPRESSION STUDIES FIELD TRIP CANCELLED”

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 16d

Poets, if they're lucky, end up having signature poems. But they don't choose them for themselves.

Instead, certain poems take on lives of their own once they're published. The Last Carry is one such example. When I first posted it here, I didn't have a clue it would reach so many people...

Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · Dec 15

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.

This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus was arrested and returned to Spain in chains over his treatment of indigenous peoples. The literal king and queen of Spain who sponsored his voyage thought he went far too far.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 16h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I had been following the story so that didn’t raise a red flag because I’d already seen that info elsewhere, but if this is your first encounter with the story it definitely makes it sound like something other than it was.

S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 13h

My department is hiring in Brazilian Studies! I’m not involved in this search but happy to answer general questions about the department or connect potential candidates with my colleagues here. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/175217&sourc...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h

"Let's do the fucking news!"

[takes running dropkick at Edward R. Murrow's tombstone]

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 13h

Shameful on the part of my alma mater. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Cheyfitz Retires Amid Discrimination Investigation Over Confrontation With Israeli Student in Gaza Class

Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, literatures in English, who in his course on “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance," reportedly asked an Israeli student to unenroll, is now set to retire.

www.cornellsun.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 1d

So they’ve not only never actually met any Jews, the also clearly haven’t run this by the Poles, either.

S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know why the Twitter antesemites are *obsessed* with polish jews?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

People never believe this fresco is real, but it is!

Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 1d

Top funny thing from @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE: “Filippino Lippi’s Saint Thomas Aquinas Interrupts the Annunciation to Introduce the Virgin Mary to Cardinal Carafa who paid for the painting, while patient Archangel Gabriel just has to wait.”

www.wga.hu/support/view...

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 1d

All the heaven talk started out bizarre and is just getting increasingly bizarre.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d

I read your thesis.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

Traitor, survivor or influencer? Mexico rethinks story of conquistador translator Malinche

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

bit.ly

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 1d

I’m torn. In the one hand they’ve got the food packages illustrated spot-on. On the other, they’re asking us to accept that Grover is Jewish and enjoys eating matzah.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

AI art really has become the aesthetic of grifters and fascists.

gizmodo.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

This confused "kids these days" lament that offers very little empirical support for a set of remarkable bold assertions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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