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I've got nothing against novels, but all these poets abandoning poetry for narrative are proving that they never really cared about the specific things that poetry and only poetry can do.

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So did the new Pope see his shadow or what

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Hey blackademics! My article on Tyehimba Jess's Pulitzer prize winning book Olio, poetics, and Blackface minstrelsy is live at African American Review! muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.gc.cuny.edu/pub/1/articl...

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I'm working on a new artist statement. If it sounds like I hate my readers it's only because, yes, dear readers, I do. I hate you.

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Look I'm not saying that JD Vance had the Pope killed. But I am saying that other people are saying it 👀

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Join the boycott of Columbia University! In <24 hours, 16 organizations and over 500 individuals have signed on in solidarity with students, faculty, and staff targeted by the Columbia university administration. Read full statement and sign to #boycottColumbia here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Where is the movement to remix r&b songs without the rap breaks from shitty men? Like, why do I have to hear Drake and Jay-Z when I want to listen to Rihanna?

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Writing mean and passive aggressive comments on a printout of my own work like I'm that undergrad who keeps not showing up to office hours.

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What really gets me is how dropping bombs on people could be considered "victory"

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Get Eunsong's book!

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It's clear that Trump gets into some seriously blood-and-iron contracts with his cronies, with compromat and trust substitutes, which is why they never turn on him. But with Musk it seems like he found someone whose lawyers are better than his.

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The irony of the attack on MESAAS at Columbia is that the US gov’t more or less created area studies during the Cold War to produce knowledge and intelligence workers to help them. It was a way of moving most R&D out of the gov’t and into universities. +

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Very disappointed that March is going by so quickly. Do better, March.

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This person helped build the "AI" that's intended to be used in the federal government, and they are saying very clearly that everything I have been trying to warn you about is true. Read this thread if you have the time and are in an okay place.

submitted 54 days ago • 10 comments

If you have power in your institution and your institution imposes rules limiting what you can do or say, please consider breaking those rules and doing so publicly.

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There is a certain “burn it all down” impulse that is sometimes articulated under the guise of abolitionist, antiracist, anticolonial, or anarchist politics (ask me how I know) that is too often divorced from the practical question of whether you’re actually prepared to survive societal collapse.

submitted 61 days ago • 42 comments

In 50 years I want the ken burns style documentary of this era to include a dramatic reading of this skeet. The episode can be called "America puts its dick in the toaster again"

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This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

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NYC Monday 3/10/25 - Release Mahmoud Khalil - US Permanent Resident detained by DHS for exercising free speech

submitted 67 days ago • 12 comments

He was supposedly arrested for acitivities “aligned” to Hamas. Anyone who cares even a little about civil liberties should understand what an absurd and dangerous legal standard this is. Legal equivalent of a vibe check. His wife was threatened, too — an 8 mo pregnant U.S. citizen (Screenshot: AP)

submitted 67 days ago • 21 comments

When faced with the horrors, you have to ask yourself: Do I want to feel right? Do I want to make things better for the people around me? Or do I want to make things better for the future? Because these are three very different and largely contradictory aims.

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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

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Like Blacksky is broken right now, that’s the power of Kendrick

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No, they don't. Making someone less bigoted should not be a political strategy: creating an environment where bigotry is impermissible, actions that follow from bigotry are illegal, and public education provides counternarratives to bigotry is what their aim should be.

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments

Finally got 100% on Tunic and it is definitely on the short list of games that seem designed specifically to bring me joy.

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we're getting to the point in the morass where squaresoft sends in a brooding teenager with cool hair to intervene

submitted 107 days ago • 9 comments

The funny thing is that nearly everywhere but here, "America" means the continent.

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✨WHEEZING✨

submitted 110 days ago • 95 comments

such a flex!

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Tbh, the history of America is a litany of incremental steps towards equity consistently fucked over by white supremacists.

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Lawyer: And if you could, Mr. Novak, read the Bluesky post that says you'd betray your own country to join the Canadian resistance against American imperial aggression. Me: Okay, but it's written in the form of a hypothetical courtroom. Lawyer: Yes, but this is a real courtroom. Me: Well, not yet.

submitted 113 days ago • 26 comments

Please support!

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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Today my gender is pissed

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Well this is quite an opener

submitted 116 days ago • 35 comments

luis j. rodriguez THE GOLD BENEATH OUR FEET

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I deleted facebook and logged out of insta, but unfortunately whatsapp is how I talk to basically everyone, and also is literally impossible to log out of

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👇

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All I've wanted is to make strange, challenging, uncompromising art and also somehow to be beloved for it.

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First pics from my makeup sesh with @thegamal.bsky.social

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