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“An Inventory of Infinite Traces” Gramsci | Central Asian Diaspora Food | Langston Hughes in Turkestan | One Story Thirty Stories: Contemporary Afghan American Lit (editor) | Turkestan Studies |
“An Inventory of Infinite Traces” Gramsci | Central Asian Diaspora Food | Langston Hughes in Turkestan | One Story Thirty Stories: Contemporary Afghan American Lit (editor) | Turkestan Studies |
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November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net
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Two Central Asians in dialogue about the field as well as my continuing work on Langston Hughes. A deeply memorable discussion even if the NBN folks mixed up by book title (!) see link.
#CentralAsiaBooks #langstonhughes
Two Central Asians in dialogue about the field as well as my continuing work on Langston Hughes. A deeply memorable discussion even if the NBN folks mixed up by book title (!) see link.
#CentralAsiaBooks #langstonhughes
Zohra Saed, "Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos & Notebooks from Turkestan" (CUNY/Lost and Found, 2018) - New Books Network
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September 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Two Central Asians in dialogue about the field as well as my continuing work on Langston Hughes. A deeply memorable discussion even if the NBN folks mixed up by book title (!) see link.
#CentralAsiaBooks #langstonhughes
Two Central Asians in dialogue about the field as well as my continuing work on Langston Hughes. A deeply memorable discussion even if the NBN folks mixed up by book title (!) see link.
#CentralAsiaBooks #langstonhughes
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Almaty opens its first contemporary art museum with Almagul Menlibayeva’s powerful solo show, marking a new era for Kazakh and Central Asian art timesca.com/kazakhstans-... #Kazakhstan #Almaty #ContemporaryArt #CentralAsia #AlmagulMenlibayeva #KazakhArt #ArtMuseumOpening
Kazakhstan’s Cultural Reawakening: Almaty Opens Its New Museum of Arts - The Times Of Central Asia
First, a young Kazakh schoolgirl in a black dress with a starched collar, her hair tousled by the wind of the Aral Sea, clutches a large Russian book tightly
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September 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Almaty opens its first contemporary art museum with Almagul Menlibayeva’s powerful solo show, marking a new era for Kazakh and Central Asian art timesca.com/kazakhstans-... #Kazakhstan #Almaty #ContemporaryArt #CentralAsia #AlmagulMenlibayeva #KazakhArt #ArtMuseumOpening
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Please help Abo jameel
September 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Please help Abo jameel
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And on 9/19 at 6pm, following Yahya Ashour's reading, we encourage everyone to attend the book launch event for Ammiel Alcalay's CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, hosted by @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social and featuring @zohrasaed.bsky.social and Safira Berrada-Riggs!
Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And on 9/19 at 6pm, following Yahya Ashour's reading, we encourage everyone to attend the book launch event for Ammiel Alcalay's CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, hosted by @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social and featuring @zohrasaed.bsky.social and Safira Berrada-Riggs!
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social is raising funds through the sale of "everything could be", a chapbook composed of lines donated by 155 UDP authors and friends. Buy a copy here. All funds will support a new season of books, fair pay for staff, and rent.
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March 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social is raising funds through the sale of "everything could be", a chapbook composed of lines donated by 155 UDP authors and friends. Buy a copy here. All funds will support a new season of books, fair pay for staff, and rent.
shop.uglyducklingpresse.org/products/eve...
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Who else is joining this call tonight? Happening in 6 minutes. ⏰️
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📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.
📢 Join us this Thursday at 8PM ET for a mass call to hear how we fight back—together.
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Who else is joining this call tonight? Happening in 6 minutes. ⏰️
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Following cuts to USAID, the scholarships of 82 Afghan women pursuing further education in Oman have been ended and they face returning to Afghanistan. I wrote to the Education Secretary urging her to work with UK universities to see if the students could continue their studies here.
March 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Following cuts to USAID, the scholarships of 82 Afghan women pursuing further education in Oman have been ended and they face returning to Afghanistan. I wrote to the Education Secretary urging her to work with UK universities to see if the students could continue their studies here.
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In what must be an act of resistance, Mahmoud Khalil *refused to sign* his “Notice to Appear” (the first step in a deportation proceeding)
March 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In what must be an act of resistance, Mahmoud Khalil *refused to sign* his “Notice to Appear” (the first step in a deportation proceeding)
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Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy | Moustafa Bayoumi
The Columbia University graduate’s arrest is an attempt to destroy free thinking while murdering due process
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy | Moustafa Bayoumi
This is the kind of mayor I want for our city!
We must stand up to bullies. That's the only way we win.
Chaotic scene as protesters swarm Trump border czar Tom Homan in Albany. Assembly Member and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shouts at him "Do you believe in the first amendment?" in regards to the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is the kind of mayor I want for our city!
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What a different world we could have.
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What a different world we could have.
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This screenshot tells you everything about the Democratic party
March 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This screenshot tells you everything about the Democratic party
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I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Steve Donoghue reviews a memoir of food and foreign reporting, Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden, out from Bloomsbury:
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Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden — Open Letters Review
A memoir of food and foreign reporting
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January 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Steve Donoghue reviews a memoir of food and foreign reporting, Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden, out from Bloomsbury:
openlettersreview.com/posts/cold-k...
openlettersreview.com/posts/cold-k...
I’m Offering these writing classes m/w 3/3-3/19 come join and then we can celebrate your writings on nowroz eve or for Eid!
February 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I’m Offering these writing classes m/w 3/3-3/19 come join and then we can celebrate your writings on nowroz eve or for Eid!
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My uncle Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the kkk for trying to unify Ann Arbor School district. Here’s an article. I hope it’s ok to share this here. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Flashback: In 1971, the KKK tarred and feathered Willow Run High School's principal
From the Free Press archives: A 1971 interview with the principal of Willow Run H.S., whom the Klu Klux Klan targeted for promoting racial equity.
www.freep.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My uncle Wiley Brownlee was tarred and feathered by the kkk for trying to unify Ann Arbor School district. Here’s an article. I hope it’s ok to share this here. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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