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🚨New Episode Alert 🚨 Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with @smaran.bsky.social & Ben Baer about their groundbreaking new book, Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

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Last week, Ben Baer and I spoke to @arnabdr.bsky.social about our book Spider-Mother and Rokeya Hossain for the New Books Network podcast. You can listen to the episode at the link below. 🙂 So grateful for Arnab's excellent questions and planning of the interview. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

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We're a third of the way there!! Thank you so much for your support!! Help us #BuildtheQueensLink by continuing to donate at the link in bio ✨

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What Southeast Queens Really Needs @mta.info #QueensLink

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The @queenslink.org project would reactivate a section of the NYC subway, connecting the M-line down from Queens Blvd to the A-line in Ozone Park, adding four new stops and serving a transit desert. 1/2 #publictransit #walkablecities #urbanism #nyc

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The present-day parts of Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel classic, KINDRED, take place in Altadena. So devastating to see the Palisades fire’s destruction of the area. 😢 @teenvogue.bsky.social

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Happy MLK Day.

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“It’s finally over – I’m going home.” said Leonard Peltier. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.” www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/20/l...

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This has been the most eventful day in social media. TikTok went dark last night, only to come back this afternoon. It’s the political maneuvering that’s been the most striking in this fiasco. And some people are disastrously inept at this game.

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RIP David Lodge

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We Lacanians call it Lack Friday

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This is aimed at young scholars in the UK (18-30). If you teach on those islands, let your students know.

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Some photos from this past weekend’s book event for Spider-Mother at Princeton. Thank you (again) to Ben Baer for his excellent translations and collaboration on this project, to @sadafjaffer.bsky.social for being in conversation with us, and to the Center for Global India for hosting us!

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain is an absolute legend. She published Sultana’s Dream, the first English language science fiction story by a South Asian woman, in 1905.

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I similarly feel like it helped me get my work out there and meet so many interesting people during the pandemic. It was painful to step away from it when things started to go south in 2022.

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The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

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We’ll be reading the Parables in my Octavia Butler major authors class in the spring. Hoping against hope that it doesn’t read as any more prescient/prophetic than it already does.

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Since we're all reconvening here, I thought I'd reshare some good news here: A project I’ve been working on all year was published this month: Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). 1/4

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All my academic faves are gathering here! Rejoice. 🥳

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Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions. Christopher Newfield suggests the answer lies in redefining #HigherEducation around intellectual and social benefits, not monetary ones. Join us Mon, 11/18, @ 4pm EST on Zoom - register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/nov... 🗃️

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I know a platform dying (which in internet terms mostly means not being what it once was anymore) can feel quite tragic, but @smaran.bsky.social remarking on this makes me hopeful: there’s people who will continue to cross your virtual path still!

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#ASA2024 book exhibit haul. Thanks, U Chicago Press!

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Currently at the American Studies Conf in Baltimore and people keep talking about getting active on Bluesky. All talk? Or does the Twitter crowd finally have a new home?

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Extremely grateful that there’s a livestream of the Ella Baker symposium. www.youtube.com/live/X5N6xGZ...

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Duke University’s library system is dropping their use of the Basecamp system. Their reasoning is worth reading.

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