Jamfør folkemordet i Sudan, har ikkje eg visst noko om bakgrunnen for konflikten. Det har vore mest Ukraina og Gaza i monitor, men her er ei konsis innføring frå FN:

Kvifor trykker Penguin India ukritiske bøker av krigsforbrytarar? "Typically of this genre, it uses the hideous language of “rescuing” Tamils amid the civil war, obscuring how such “rescue” entailed bombing and shelling and detaining and torturing Tamil civilians."

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Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

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Tippemidlene skal jo egentlig være en slags juletrefest-godtepose! Av og til får man en mandarin, og av og til BÅDE sjokolade og smørbukk. Kulturministeren skal få være en frittgående julenisse uten føringer. Det er skummelt om langvarige livsviktige satsinger skal støttes med fluktuerende midler.

Høyr teaseren til den fantastiske nye podkasten til @bjermo.bsky.social og meg om fantastisk litteratur, Fantastiske Bøker! 🎉🎊

Kjem i november - fylgj med!

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Elskar This is history av Dan Jones, elles så kjem @bjermo.bsky.social og eg ut med ein podkast om fantastisk litteratur i november! 🎉🎊 Han heiter Fantastiske Bøker

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

For de med dårlig hukommelse var altså Document et av favoritt-nettstedene til Breivik. At de nå skal få rollen som nøytralt ekspertvitne til høyreradikale demonstrasjoner i UK er absurd. #nrkdebatt

Eg og @tharaniga.bsky.social er så hjartans samde. Og vi har ein plan. Stay tuned 💫

@forfattersentrum.bsky.social @forfatterforbundet.bsky.social
@frittord.bsky.social

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Berre korrupt

Tenk at Amrit Kaur tek meir ansvar enn Erna og trekk seg

Mens Frankrike kanskje har fått en ny seriemorder - der motivet ser ut til å være homofobi - har enda en ung gutt i Norge drept noen fordi de ikke så ut som han.

Stem på et parti som ikke nører opp under hat mot grupper av mennesker på valgdagen.

grus

I nyaste utgåve av Norsk Tidend skriv eg om kriterium for litterær kvalitet og slagkraft:

Hvordan bruker russiske myndigheter motstand mot LHBT for å skape splittelse i vest? Marthe Handå Myhre og jeg følger det russiske sporet i kampanjen mot bokserne Imane Khelif og Lin Yu-Ting. Les gratis i nytt nummer av Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.

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Ultimately, these options are not hard to think about, or exceptionally expensive.

What is required is actual will to change. A real interest in the well-being of those who are not like you.

Even if you disagree with my suggestions, why not ask Black and Brown people how to help?

/End.

The judges can't be all/overwhelmingly white and middle class, and yet tell us it's some kind of level playing field.

Find a way to understand that there are many, many kinds of storytelling traditions and open up to those possibilities.

Who tell you what they ACTUALLY need, instead of doing what you think they want.

I mean, I'll take a quarter of a million pounds advance, don't get me wrong. Bring it on. But I won't deceive myself that it helps the lot of anybody but myself because it doesn't.

4. Competitions: Same thing applies

with rumours and urban legends of how you need to get your foot in the door or how that one time you used the passive voice was enough to disqualify you from publication for ever.

Dispel the misconceptions with the truth. But this must also go both ways.

LISTEN to what Black and Brown people

writing career. Getting a mentor is that much more difficult because, like I said, publishing is overwhelmingly white.

Open up opportunities for meeting people in all stages of publication. Let's meet booksellers and editors and, yes, agents, and so on.

The world of unpublished writers is rife

Be able to earn it ourselves. Many of us can't afford workshops or MFAs or whatever. Sponsor that. We want to be taught to fish. We don't want meaningless charity that soothes guilt. Heck, I'd volunteer to teach in such a set-up.

3. Meet and Greets.
Knowing people in publishing helps with a

Publishing is overwhelmingly white and, I'm sorry, but you all don't always understand the stories you receive. Even the most well-travelled of you.
More people behind the scenes with lived experience would help.

2. Education: We don't want you to give a few of us life-changing money. We want to

Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else).

1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.

Lihkku sámi álbmotbeivviin! Happy national day for all Sami people!❤️💚💛💙 with a wonderful winter sun from Porsanger ❤️ -
Sami are the indigenous people who live across borders of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Suffered much oppression and lost valuable knowledge as a result. #samisk #indigenous