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Iranian feminists Frieda Afary and Elahe Amani will talk about the war between Israel/U.S. and #Iran and ways to take a principled stand and defend progressive/life-affirming forces in the Middle East and the U.S. Sponsored by @indivisibleteam. Register here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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A necessary poem by Lexi Pelle in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. #AdrianaSmith #women #humanrights #Georgia rattle.com/baby-of-brai...

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"Fame is a social phenomenon and society, to be able to function, must separate people into categories and types. But what it absolutely cannot accept and so can only recognize in retrospect is the one of a kind." -- Hannah Arendt on Walter Benjamin's posthumous fame at the Goethe Society, 1968

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Yesterday in Bilbao, Vizcaya. ¡Palestina Akatu! #BasqueCountry #Vizcaya #Paletine #Spain

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"Love is wise, hate is foolish." - Bertrand Russell. When you hate others for any* reason, you have allowed someone to make you foolish. Beware of those who preach hate and intolerance. Your moral hygiene depends upon it. #Love

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Es un gran privilegio ser invitada de La Feria del Libro de #Madrid. Mientras tanto, en un café cerca del Parque de Retiro mi barista se estalla en gritos porque pasa al final del concurso para ser declarada la mejor barista de #España. La vida es gloriosa. ¡Bravo, Kissaten Place!

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Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies. He was tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature many times, leaving fans dismayed each time it was not awarded to him. His family and he were victims of white colonial genocide. He wrote from prison and, indeed, continuously for 60 years. RIP, master.

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Saudi Arabian fitness instructor and influencer Manahel al-Otaibi, 30, has been stabbed in the face in prison after being jailed in January for promoting women’s rights on social media. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison. #Misogyny #FreeManahel

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Two poems by Palestinian poet and translator Sahar Rabah in @themassreview.bsky.social. #JusticeForPalestine massreview.org/2025/05/23/t...

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Today's post from NBA basketball star, former Sports Illustrated Sportman of the Year, and patriot, Kareem Abdul Jabbar:

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"The translator's task consists in this:to find the intention toward the language into which the work is to translated, on the basis of which an echo of the original can be awakened in it." -- Walter Benjamin. (#Translation from German by Steven Rendall)

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"Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women," wrote Audre Lorde. The focus on female fertility by the current regime is not about love of children, and certainly not of #women, but the hateful intent to take from women even that single power we were allowed.

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"UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid." @theguardian.com. Let me spell that out for you: Fourteen. Thousand. Babies. Murdered. #Genocide www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." Rev.Vernon Tyson, Raleigh, NC #RacialJustice

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In a world where a YouTuber named "Mr. Beast," a businessman who has never in his life written anything literary, signs a fat contract to co-write a novel with James Patterson, the cultural clock would appear to be at five minutes to midnight. #publishing

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#1: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 📷 Olson/Getty

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"Mis familias" de @albertochimal.com. A. escribe sobre su vida y el romanticismo oscuro de la derecha política que insiste en que todos sigamos el patrón de la familiar nuclear heterosexual, lo que no refleja la realidad de muchos incluso la del autor. #familia open.substack.com/pub/albertoy...

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You don't know the lions are real until it's too late. Kind of like fascism, no? "The Veldt" by the great Ray Bradbury now reads like a reveal of the childish, mendacious, ferocious face of technofascism. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4esrx2wr #shortstories #Bradbury @albertochimal.com @raxxie.com

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BREAKING: The Authors Guild and a group of scholars and writers filed a class action lawsuit against the NEH, its leadership, and officials within the “DOGE” for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants. Full statement: authorsguild.org/news/ag-file...

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Literary translators deserve recognition and compensation for their work. This Wednesday, join us for an overview of literary translation contracts. We'll discuss the key elements to look for in a book deal and suggest negotiating points for translators. authorsguild.org/event/transl...

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No matter what side of a wall you are on, you are in jail. So tear down the walls and build understanding, kindness, and respect. Where these live, walls serve no purpose. Happy #MothersDay.

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"Evil will not prevail." - Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope, a Peruvian Bishops, an Augustinian. May it be so! For many fear the evil that stalks the globe today, many are starving, terrified, detained, in pain. May it be so! #Leo

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Has your organization had its Congressionally approved NEH and/or NEA funding clawed back? Contact the @authorsguild.bsky.social immediately. Fill out this form. form.jotform.com/250984790603...

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"Just following orders." God save The Conscience and its crew. #Gaza

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Me entristece que mis peonías están floreciendo justo cuando me voy a una conferencia. Sin embargo, a donde vaya, habrá flores, muchas y hermosas flores. ¡Traductores! ¡Nos vemos en #NETA! @umassamherst.bsky.social

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Today, my umwelt is in flux.

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I just sat through five minutes of a Zoom session in which a clueless male editor at a big lit mag blithered on to 126 writers, mostly women, about how selecting submissions is like swiping through profiles on a dating app. Fuck no, I said, and signed out. WTF??? #misogyny #literature #litmags

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Angelina Muñiz-Huberman reads "Vagabundo" from her book Arritmias and I read my translation, "Wanderer" as part of the @santjordijam.bsky.social in NYC this year. Watch the 15-minute reading here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXqU...

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"Es la esclavitud de sus trabajadores la que hace posible que Bezos pueda irse en cohete al espacio" -- Marta Peirano (@minipetite.bsky.social), autora de "Contra el futuro: Resisitencia ciudadana frente al feudalismo climático" (Debate) #climate #clima #tecnología #technology

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Predictably, the moment for which the American #SecondAmerdment guys stockpiled all those guns has arrived, and they do not know who the enemy is.

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El sentimiento general. #Impeach #Resist [Photo: Stephen Lam/AP]

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Congratulations to my dear @eallen.bsky.social for this spectacular page in the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.

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European friends just pulled their son from a summer job program in the USA, losing a lot amount of money spent on unrefundable flights and other expenses. They don't think their kid will be safe here. They are right. I've never felt so ashamed and sad. #AmericanNightmare [Mural: Isaac Zevalking]

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"The greatest trick Mark Zuckerberg ever pulled was wrapping the American flag around himself and calling himself a patriot while he spent the last decade in China building an 18-billion dollar business there." -- Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook whistleblower. #facebook www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzx...

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My accountant gave me a $50 discount this year because he can see this writing and literary translation thing is not a financially viable activity. What is the word for this potent cocktail of gratitude and fury?

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"Where they burn books, they will in the end burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine (The "Night of Shame" memorial in Berlin by Micha Ullmann.) #censorship

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¡Bienvenida! Bienvenue! Velkommen to Katrine Øgaard Jensen. A poet and translator takes over the timón at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).

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April 5. Liberate yourself. #Resist "Cheesus". Original art by @wefail.bsky.social.

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