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Inaugural Renberg Chair. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting & Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow. Traveling the world writing on Palestine, HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ life. Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS. Finishing THE OVERSEER CLASS (Amistad/HarperCollins)
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A very touching carving I saw scratched into the wall of a solitary confinement cell in an apartheid prison
The word Nina Simone
December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Pre-order here www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Top 10 Politics & Current Events Books "The author of The Viral Underclass explores the Faustian bargain members of marginalized groups must strike when selected for positions of power." W Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events Government malfeasance, the consequences of too much tech, and the emotional lives of medical caregivers are spotlighted in spring's current affairs titles By Dana Snitzky | Dec 05, 2025 Share Post Post SUBSCRIBE by the Month ISRAEL Top 10 WHARWENT WRONG BONFIRE OF THE MURDOCHS HOW THE EPIC FIGHT TO CONTROL THE LAST GREAT MEDIA DYNASTY BROKE A FAMILY-AND THE WORLD GABRIEL SHERMAN bestsetting auther of The Lewdest Veice in the Reem OMER BARTOV The Wall Dancers ---------- Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet --- Yi-Ling
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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“The author of The Viral Underclass explores the Faustian bargain members of marginalized groups must strike when selected for positions of power.” Honored to be named alongside @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @gabrielshelnutt.bsky.social & sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
The Top 10 authors include the New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman, sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, historian Omer Bartov, NBC's Julia Ainsley, and Viral Underclass author Steven W. Thrasher London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, Apr. 7 ($35, ISBN 978-0-385-54853-3) The circumstances surrounding the 2019 suicide of British teenager Zac Brettler, who was living a double life posing as a Russian oligarch's son, is investigated by the author of Empire of Pain. The Overseer Class: A Manifesto Steven W. Thrasher. Amistad, Apr. 28 ($29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-339941-9) The author of The Viral Underclass explores the Faustian bargain members of marginalized groups must strike when selected for positions of power. Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump's Mass Deportation Program Julia Ainsley. Harper, June 16 ($32.50, ISBN 978-0-06-346894-8) NBC News correspondent Ainsley offers a behind-the-scenes account of how a cadre of White House aides repeatedly broke the law to enact the Trump administration's mass deportation plan. The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet Yi-Ling Liu. Knopf, Feb. 3 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-49185-0) This portrait of China's online ecosystem from journalist Liu
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Some news: The first advanced review is in and…THE OVERSEER CLASS has been named one of the Top 10 Politics & Current Events Books of Spring 2026 by Publishers Weekly! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events Government malfeasance, the consequences of too much tech, and the emotional lives of medical caregivers are spotlighted in spring's current affairs titles W Publishers Weekly names The Overseer Class one of the Top 10 Politics & Current Events Books of Spring 2026! THE OVERSEER CLASS A MANIFESTO STEVEN W. THRASHER
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Drying
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Bleach
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I was going to make an Alice Wong shirt, but will save this stencil for a jacket better for spray painting…
Text DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN! -ALICE WONG
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Greetings from Joburg’s Constitution Hill, where I’ve come “home” to the Creative Art Making Project (Camp). Today’s theme is “revival” and our medium is textiles…
A man w a ball gag abd rhe words “debt descipline”
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Best comment on Barber’s cover thus far 😂
ihatepatriarchy commented: ihatepatriarchy commented: if this cover could talk, it'd say, "don't fuck with me cuz imma fuck you right back up".
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins

THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto

by Steven W. Thrasher

cover art by Jamaal Barber

Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Cover art of the book "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" by Steven W. Thrasher. The cover is a black and white woodcut, with the title appearing over the images of three African American faces. To the left, is a face without eyes, in profile. To the right, is a man in a suit with no eyes looking forward. In the center is a police officer with eyes. Inside of him is a Black man on his knees, appearing to have been whipped. They all tower over raised fists.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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In today’s video, I breakdown 3 reasons why U.S. foreign spending on HIV is not “aid” or an”gift”
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I made a short film called “The Global Terror of Homeless Sweeps,” about my surprise discovery that while I was in Uganda, the G20 had enacted major sweeps in the Joburg neighborhood I’ve called home off-and-on since September ( w shoutouts to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social @samtlevin.bsky.social)
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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5/ And in the concluding Part 5, I explain as we leave the shelter how and why trans residents behave like spies, switching between modes of transit 2 or 3 times to get to work (which can take 2 hours each way)

www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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4/ In Part 4, a shelter manager (who also was once kicked out of home) tearfully says that they’re running out of hope: they owe 2 months back rent, they have no food for the residents & when they ask private donors for help, they say Trump won’t let them help

www.gofundme.com/minorityshel...
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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3/ In Part 3, a shelter manager tells me that the United States, Netherlands, UK *and private donors* are forbidding these terms:

🛑 GBV (Gender Based Violence)

🛑 Trans

🛑 DEI (which was their code-term for “LGBTQ” in a coutry where being LGBTQ is illegal)

www.gofundme.com/f/minoritysh...
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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2/ In Part 2, I speak to John Grace of the Uganda Minority Shelters Consortium about coming up in queer shelters themself and their hope for what a queer shelter might be (yes, that’s a pig being slaughtered by a neighbor you’re hearing in the background)

gofundme.com/minorityshelters
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.

In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.

(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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…and always WILL be here
Black and white photo of two topless africans with bare breasts touching
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Queer Africans have always been here…
Two topless South Africans with bare breast holding hands
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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A fascinating exhibit of art made in British “concentration camps” of 1899, a term almost never used prior to Nazi Germany in the west
I WITNESSED ATROCITIES OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS - 1899 - 1902 ART KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Finally made it to the Museum of Africa
Happiness standing in front of the colorful museum
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM