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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · Aug 29

Es ist bei weitem nicht das Schlimmste, was in der Datei (Kleine Anfrage 21/1235) zu lesen ist, aber schaut wohin die Reise gegangen ist, seit der 2024 Kritik am Internationalen Literaturpreis von Othmann und Liebert ⬇️

Bin gespannt wie der Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien reagieren wird.

12. Wie bewertet der Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien den Vorgang um die Vorwürfe zweier ehemaliger Jurorinnen des Internationalen Literaturpreises aus dem Jahr 2024, wonach Werke und Preisträger nach antiweißen, rassischen Kriterien ausgewählt worden seien (siehe Vorbemerkung der Fragesteller)?

13. Wird sich der Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien fortsn dafür einsetzen, dass auch weiße Autoren bei der Auswahl des Internationalen Literaturpreises berücksichtigt werden?

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Jan 9

Love to spend the first week of January putting together my "new books of the year" calendar. I did collect information over the past year, sorted through these, looked at my favourite publishers etc My personal list has 168 titles (lol) but here is a short version:
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30 New Publications in 2025 I Am Excited For

Over the past years my preview lists have become more and more extensive and putting together these kind of posts incredibly time consuming (so I never even did my list for the second half of 2024)…

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Jan 22

I know January is almost over but nonetheless here is my list of books published in the first half of 2024 I am excited about.

50 (+ more) Books 2024 (January – June)

This is my incredibly extensive list of books I am excited about or highly interested in which will be published in the first half of 2024. As always, the publications date might be a bit all over …

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · Dec 29

Just a few more days left to pick up my upcoming short story collection on NetGalley! Spread the word:

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Power to Yield and Other Stories

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · Dec 28

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more

electricliterature.com/75-books-by-...

75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature

We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Dec 26

Finding it increasingly jarring that so much presumably realistic contemporary fiction these days takes place in an alternative universe in which the pandemic never happened

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Dec 24

Bluestockings Cooperative is an indispensible feminist bookstore in NYC. It's been a fantastic community space for as long as I can remember.

Now it's facing eviction because the store is providing Narcan — and they've actually saved lives!. Please do what you can to help. Details below...

raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Dec 24

In all honesty we did not think this story would have such reach! Some ways to support 1️⃣ donate to the shelves (bluestockings.com/free-store or www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...) 2️⃣ check out our members program (withfriends.co/bluestockings) 3️⃣ just spread the word we exist 🩵🩵

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 16

Very thankful that you can choose in the settings "alt text required before posting". I always want to include alt text (obviously) and usually, by now, it's an automated part of the process of posting. But just now I got distracted and would have posted without alt text. But fortunately I couldn't!

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 16

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec15

Carl de Souza's Kaya Days (transl. by Jeffrey Zuckerman) had been on my reading pile for a while and I finally read it. This Mauritian book follows a girl for a night looking for her brother amidst the uproar after a musician had died in police custody.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 16

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec14

Miss Major Speaks, which consists of conversations between Miss Major (a Black trans revolutionary as the subtitle says) and Toshio Meronek, is another great book Verso published this year. We really need all the books by trans elders we can get.

The book Miss Major Speaks lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 14

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec13

Did continue my way through Jasmine Walls' work and read the first book of DC's Vixen: NYC. I am not a huge DC reader but this was very entertaining (and loved the art). Will pick up more of this series.

The comic book Vixen: NYC Vol. 1 lies on a blanket.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · Dec 13

This piece about how a radical art collective planted subversive props in 3 years' worth of Melrose Place episodes (and made Aaron Spelling look very stupid) has quite simply changed my life

One of the Most Audacious Pranks in History Was Hidden in a Hit TV Show for Years. Not Everyone Foun...

Abortion activism, anti-gun propaganda, and HIV awareness, smuggled onto prime time.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · Dec 12

Still masking against COVID-19?

“A small team of feminist disability justice researchers want to hear from you! Consider participating in a short survey with researchers at York University and Athabasca University.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... “

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 13

Wirklich jeden Tag so eine Freude die Folgen zu hören!

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 13

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12

Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅

My hand holds the book The Cost of Living.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 13

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec11

Monique ("Lesbians are not women.") Wittig's essays (newly published in German translation by Benjamin Dittmann-Bieber and Arabel Summent) written in the 1980s/90s are deeply thought provoking. Yes, there are things I'd criticise but there is a lot to gain here.

The book Das straighte Denken by Monique Wittig lies on a blanket.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · Dec 10

Sunday, with Ada Limón (and New Orleans).

“Standing at the swell of the muddy Mississippi

after the urgent care doctor had just said, Well,

sometimes shit happens, I fell fast and hard

for New Orleans all over again. Pain pills swirling

in the purse along with a spell for later. It’s taken

a while for me to admit, I am in a raging battle

with my body, a spinal column thirty-five degrees

bent, vertigo that comes and goes like a DC Comics

villain nobody can kill. Invisible pain is both

a blessing and a curse. You always look so happy,

said a stranger once as I shifted to my good side

grinning. But that day, alone on the riverbank,

brass blaring from the Steamboat Natchez,

out of the corner of my eye, I saw a girl, maybe half my age,

dressed, for no apparent reason, as Wonder Woman.

She strutted by in all her strength and glory, invincible,

eternal, and when I stood to clap (because who wouldn’t have),

she bowed and posed like she knew I needed a myth—

a woman, by a river, indestructible.”

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Olivian (hen/hens) @olivian.bsky.social · Dec 10

Adventskalender QueerMusic Tür 10

«Homem com H» Ney Mattogrosso

Das heutige Lied lebt insbesondere von der performativen Kunst seines Interpreten, weshalb wir zunächst Ney Mattogrosso ein wenig kennenlernen müssen, um die Wirkung des Lieds, auch in den Diskurs hinein, zu verstehen.
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Ney Matogrosso - Homem Com H (Ao Vivo)

Siga o artista:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neymatogrosso/?hl=enHomem Com H - Ao Vivo Em Belo Horizonte / 1999(Antonio Barros)Letra:Nunca vi rastro d...

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 10

Personally, I am especially intrigued by Kamilah Cole: So Let Them Burn, Frances White: Voyage of the Damned, K. M. Enright
Mistress of Lies. These three made my 2024 Most-Anticipated List (which I'll share in the first week of January).

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 10

There is a current publishing scandal: a white 2024 debut author made Goodreads fake accounts to not only upvote their own book but also gave 1 star reviews to a bunch of fellow 2024 debut novels - all by BPoC authors.

SL Huang shared infos on these latter books - and they sound incredible.

SL Huang is finally on Bluesky. THE WATER OUTLAWS is out! @slhuang.com · Dec 9

SO. the books by the 5 targeted BIPOC debuts look truly AWESOME y'all.

which do you think look amazing & want to read??!!???!? tell me!

if you want a rundown on them, I made a video -- watch from 3:08 for ~~THE BOOKS~~

(or from the top for publishing!feelings lol)

www.tiktok.com/@s.l.huang/v...

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 9

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec9

Spent today with some queer poetry by Padraig Regan ("Some Integrity").

"[...] the future is as futures often are
just history we haven't memorised
& I cannot say if you survived it."
(from "Poem for Bobby Kendall")

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Berlin gegen Nazis @berlingegennazis.bsky.social · Dec 9

Hunderten Demokratieprojekten droht das Aus zum 1. Januar - Auch die Kolleg_innen in unserem großen Schwesterprojekt MBR Berlin müssten ihre Arbeit am 31.12. einstellen. Zur PM vom Bundesverband Mobile Beratung und vielen Verbänden & Vereine
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Hunderten Demokratieprojekten droht das Aus zum 1. Januar | Bundesverband Mobile Beratung

Die Demokratieförderung in Deutschland ist aktuell wegen fehlender Bewilligungen massiv bedroht. Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt schnell eine Lösung finden!

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 9

I read the book in the German translation by Marlene Müller-Haas.

Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 9

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec8

This year in July Marga Minco died at 103. Her debut Het bittere kruid ("Bitter herbs") from 1957 tells about the occupation of the Netherlands in episodes about a Jewish family. The protagonist is the only one who survives in hiding. The story is very close to Minco's own.

The book "Das bittere Kraut" lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · Dec 7

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec7

I recently read Jasmine Walls latest graphic novel, Brooms, which I loved so I looked for more of her work. The Last Session is a wonderful comic about a group of queer friends trying to finish a last D&D campaign before after college graduation they won't live close anymore.

The comic The Last Session lies on a blanket.

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