Anthony Reed
@blackpoetics.bsky.social
Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
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Lost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel.
Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James.
news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...
Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James.
news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...
Lost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel
Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James
news.uchicago.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Lost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel.
Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James.
news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...
Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James.
news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...
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Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
breachmedia.ca
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
I don't know, the fact that many big-budget movies seem to be actively discrediting counter-movements by depicting revolutionary movements as indistinguishable from reactionary ones, and showing both beset by misogyny, opportunism, and/or incoherence seems like it might be a sign of something.
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I don't know, the fact that many big-budget movies seem to be actively discrediting counter-movements by depicting revolutionary movements as indistinguishable from reactionary ones, and showing both beset by misogyny, opportunism, and/or incoherence seems like it might be a sign of something.
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Has Google announced Google Classic (like Coca-Cola Classic), so people can pay to have less polluted information yet? I'm sure paying a premium to dis-enshittify is coming next.
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Has Google announced Google Classic (like Coca-Cola Classic), so people can pay to have less polluted information yet? I'm sure paying a premium to dis-enshittify is coming next.
Re: last repost, I grew up in the 80s hearing about the ways income thresholds and even having two parents at home could get people kicked off already inadequate aid. The war on poverty became a war on poor, working folks long ago.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Re: last repost, I grew up in the 80s hearing about the ways income thresholds and even having two parents at home could get people kicked off already inadequate aid. The war on poverty became a war on poor, working folks long ago.
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Hard not to notice that this is describing a landscape where public aid is pretty brutally means tested, and thus it's very, very difficult to climb out of the trap of housing/childcare/healthcare if you aren't supremely lucky
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hard not to notice that this is describing a landscape where public aid is pretty brutally means tested, and thus it's very, very difficult to climb out of the trap of housing/childcare/healthcare if you aren't supremely lucky
Please give and share if you can.
gofund.me/62ae982b6?tp...
gofund.me/62ae982b6?tp...
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Please give and share if you can.
gofund.me/62ae982b6?tp...
gofund.me/62ae982b6?tp...
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You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
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Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
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Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
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I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!
Here are 5 other things to know:
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Social media and many of the places where we get perspectives are a mess with manipulation, conspiracy, and misinformation. Radicals hoping to fight oppression have to be mindful of where we listen and why. I wrote about this and more for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/11/20/a...
Another way out: Finding clarity for resistance
Facing a wave of misinformation and the manipulation of algorithms, resistance starts with choosing how we listen, not just how we speak
prismreports.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Social media and many of the places where we get perspectives are a mess with manipulation, conspiracy, and misinformation. Radicals hoping to fight oppression have to be mindful of where we listen and why. I wrote about this and more for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/11/20/a...
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comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
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Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.
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I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
The Politics of Hunger in Sudan – Transition Magazine
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
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This Unruly Witness is a collection of bold, tender, and illuminating writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy
This Unruly Witness
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This Unruly Witness is a collection of bold, tender, and illuminating writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy
Wendy Brown: "[T]he three schools of neoliberalism [Friedman, Hayek, Ordoliberals] share a rejection of robust democracy and of the expansive notion of the political on which democracy rests."
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Wendy Brown: "[T]he three schools of neoliberalism [Friedman, Hayek, Ordoliberals] share a rejection of robust democracy and of the expansive notion of the political on which democracy rests."
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
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Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.
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Staggering atrocities in Sudan.
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan
Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Staggering atrocities in Sudan.
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
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The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnDarfur
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnDarfur
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnDarfur
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnDarfur
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/