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everyone is suffering and this is how it feels
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everyone is suffering and this is how it feels
the drafts thing is messing me up because i never write drafts but i do decide not to post halfway through writing and the save button is where the discard button was. now i have a folder full of reminders of bad skeets.
February 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
the drafts thing is messing me up because i never write drafts but i do decide not to post halfway through writing and the save button is where the discard button was. now i have a folder full of reminders of bad skeets.
still in my head dh stands for designated hitter and ai refers to the poet ai ogawa — i have to do a brief self-adjust whenever i see them used otherwise
February 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
still in my head dh stands for designated hitter and ai refers to the poet ai ogawa — i have to do a brief self-adjust whenever i see them used otherwise
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david byrne’s “independence day” or elliott smith’s “independence day”?
February 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
david byrne’s “independence day” or elliott smith’s “independence day”?
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Hear me chat with the wonderful Suvendu Ghatak & Ashmita Mukherjee about the Postcolonial Bildungsroman for the Anticlockwise podcast!
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youtu.be/d9VoNjoqRjo
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Postcolonial "Coming of Age" novels ft. Dr. Arnab D. Roy
YouTube video by Anticlockwise: Books, Art, Philosophy
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February 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Hear me chat with the wonderful Suvendu Ghatak & Ashmita Mukherjee about the Postcolonial Bildungsroman for the Anticlockwise podcast!
@ualbertapress.bsky.social
@univnebpress.bsky.social
youtu.be/d9VoNjoqRjo
@ualbertapress.bsky.social
@univnebpress.bsky.social
youtu.be/d9VoNjoqRjo
it’s such a straight line from “we need enlightenment values now more than ever” to appearing in the epstein files
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 PM
it’s such a straight line from “we need enlightenment values now more than ever” to appearing in the epstein files
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#OtD 14 Feb 1939 worker unrest at the Leonora sugar plantation in Guyana escalated when after 10 firemen returned to work following a short stoppage, 80 to 90 members of a shovel gang refused an offer of 9 cents per bed for work on a field stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8563...
February 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Gratefully received!
Paola Bacchetta, Co-motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke UP, 2026)
It addresses queer,trans & social justice mobilisation archives in France, India, Italy & US.
We’ll hold a book launch in April - watch this space.
Paola Bacchetta, Co-motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke UP, 2026)
It addresses queer,trans & social justice mobilisation archives in France, India, Italy & US.
We’ll hold a book launch in April - watch this space.
![QUEERS & TRANS RACISÉES
CONTRE L'HOMONATIONALISME
5.7 LGBT Pride March from 2018 with banner reading
"Racialized Queers and Trans Against Homonationalism"
(Manifesto 212018).
this same police is violently hunting down migrants and murdering our brothers, our sisters, our siblings, our mothers, and our fathers in working-class neighborhoods, while this police is repressing social movements and establishing colonial order in France, the organizers of the march are rolling out the red carpet for them." Oitoko's call flagged that (white) queer police were planned to be on a float shooting water pistols into the air
"for fun, a terrifying insult to all racialized people, including queer and trans people, who are faced with real police violence. The statement underlined that Inter-LGBT fully ignored that year's Asylum-Immigration Law that puts the lives of all racialized people including queer and trans people at risk. The law deprive (s] undocumented people who are HIV. positive or are undergoing hormonal treatment or medical treatment" of health care. The statement affirmed that since racialized queers and trans are not wanted in the march they would take it over, positioning themselves at its head.
An important footnote in the call clarifies: "We refuse the command that we be out implied by this kind of autonomous contingent, but we want](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5a5ewvchgtmoi4zsez4sxm5/bafkreibyy3imtjw3ttexa5pr4amtbjjl37as3x3bkm242f37cvy65pg5sa@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Gratefully received!
Paola Bacchetta, Co-motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke UP, 2026)
It addresses queer,trans & social justice mobilisation archives in France, India, Italy & US.
We’ll hold a book launch in April - watch this space.
Paola Bacchetta, Co-motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke UP, 2026)
It addresses queer,trans & social justice mobilisation archives in France, India, Italy & US.
We’ll hold a book launch in April - watch this space.
happy to all who celebrate
Valentine's Day marks death of James Cook, a significant day for Native Hawaiians
Most people think of Feb. 14 as Valentine's Day. But the date also marks a noteworthy event in Hawaiʻi's history: the death of British explorer and Navy Capt. James Cook on Hawaiʻi Island. HPR's Kuʻuw...
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:11 PM
happy to all who celebrate
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Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching
you just gotta listen
you just gotta listen
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching
you just gotta listen
you just gotta listen
should i rage read the atlantic piece?
February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
should i rage read the atlantic piece?
as a youngest child it’s weird for me when anyone listens to me. like when i say something in class and the students start writing it down im like “wait what, you guys are actually acknowledging my opinion?”
February 14, 2026 at 2:22 AM
as a youngest child it’s weird for me when anyone listens to me. like when i say something in class and the students start writing it down im like “wait what, you guys are actually acknowledging my opinion?”
i loled at calling the melania movie a “film”
February 14, 2026 at 2:13 AM
i loled at calling the melania movie a “film”
let’s see ai gently remind janet she’s muted without making her feel self-conscious about it. let’s see it flash a warm smile that says “you are old and bad at technology, janet, but you are a vital part of the team and you are appreciated”
Yeah let's see AI take my job. Let's see chat gpt crack the perfectly timed joke in the zoom meeting. Let's see it brighten everyone's Monday. Get outta here
February 14, 2026 at 2:12 AM
let’s see ai gently remind janet she’s muted without making her feel self-conscious about it. let’s see it flash a warm smile that says “you are old and bad at technology, janet, but you are a vital part of the team and you are appreciated”
jonathan richnan’s “new england” or billy bragg’s “a new england”?
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
jonathan richnan’s “new england” or billy bragg’s “a new england”?
kids 4 day weekend for presidents day after a week of snow days feels wrong.
February 13, 2026 at 6:35 PM
kids 4 day weekend for presidents day after a week of snow days feels wrong.
kant was absolutely on the spectrum (complimentary)
February 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
kant was absolutely on the spectrum (complimentary)
poppy seed bagel before class. no toothpicks or floss. rookie mistake.
February 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
poppy seed bagel before class. no toothpicks or floss. rookie mistake.
trying to work after getting kids to bed. pipe dream. 😴.
February 12, 2026 at 3:21 AM
trying to work after getting kids to bed. pipe dream. 😴.
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Somehow missed that my article "Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies" is the PMLA paper of the month, available for free access until February 24th!
cup.org/465OPxz
cup.org/465OPxz
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies - Volume 140 Issue 3
cup.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Somehow missed that my article "Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies" is the PMLA paper of the month, available for free access until February 24th!
cup.org/465OPxz
cup.org/465OPxz
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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Squee! We're on a new podcast. My caro sposo and I dusted off our he-said-she-said act for a tussle over the 1995 vs. 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptations on Period, with Alison Thoet de Castillo. Grateful for the chance to talk #janeausten , #adaptation & #wildforausten www.buzzsprout.com/2592047
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Squee! We're on a new podcast. My caro sposo and I dusted off our he-said-she-said act for a tussle over the 1995 vs. 2005 Pride and Prejudice adaptations on Period, with Alison Thoet de Castillo. Grateful for the chance to talk #janeausten , #adaptation & #wildforausten www.buzzsprout.com/2592047
increasingly convinced what scares the fascists is imagination
February 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
increasingly convinced what scares the fascists is imagination
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My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history