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sonakshis11.bsky.social
Senior Writing Tutor @ Ashoka Uni, Translation Fellow @ SouthAsiaSpeaks, Translations Editor @ Usawa, Educational Arm Assistant @ Asymptote, ASLE Translation Grantee. Reader, Scholar, Translator, Writer, Zinester.
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In “The Brightest World I Knew” by Lim Sol-A (tr. @‌clarehannahmary.bsky.social ), a woman’s apartment search in Seoul turns into an act of resistance. Read this story from our new issue “Translating Disability” on WWB: buff.ly/4kbVFXX

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Beat away those mid-week blues by reading @theriveter.bsky.social's thoughtful translation(s)!! Always a delight to read, and edit for Usawa! 🤗💜

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It should really be *Between* Difficulty and Opportunity etc

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Bluesky just hit 21m users! as promised: please enjoy this very good hog bsky.app/profile/kris...

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My book on Knowledge is out today (World Philosophy Day) with Open Book Publishers. It's freely downloadable in PDF and Epub form, and cheap to order in hardback or paperback. #philsky

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Please share & support Li Kotomi 李琴峰, who's not only a talented author but a kind & wonderful human. She doesn't deserve any of this. No person does. More on her situation here: note.com/li_kotomi/n/... (in English) note.com/li_kotomi/n/... (in Chinese) note.com/li_kotomi/n/... (in Japanese)

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Today, WWB launches a new collection of indigenous Amazigh writing in North Africa and beyond, beginning with an introduction by Brahim El Guabli. Click to read El Guabli’s rigorous examination of the history—and the possible future—for Amazigh lit. https://buff.ly/4fy1s7h

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We've added lots of great translation and global lit-centric presses and mags to this list since last week! If you think we've missed something, let us know! go.bsky.app/RPkPdAM

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NEW at Mid Theory Collective: I interviewed the brilliant poet (and my brilliant friend) Arah Ko, discussing her upcoming collection & chapbook, what poetic forms she's exploring, and the importance of poetry for the present. read here: mid-theory.com/2024/11/18/a...

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Began the year on a somewhat good note - super glad to have my first translation of the year out in ASAP CONNECT supported by The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts! Link here: asapconnect.in/post/670/sin... Do give it a read! 🎠🌠

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Hey academic chat, if you’re headed to MLA, come to out Humanities Without Borders to plenary session!! #MLA2024

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New in: @leahorvat.bsky.social & my article on Yugoslav kitchens & many other interesting things. It's open source and with pictures, so a perfect way to spend the weird days between xmas and nye. I'm happy to be reminded at the end of w gloomy year how academia is so much easier with friends.

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@vrindac.bsky.social and I are facilitating this (cool?!) workshop for the 2024 Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition over Zoom! If this catches your fancy, do sign up and spread the word amongst your friends, and friends of friends! We are all in for 💡🖊️🧠 louisville.edu/conference/w...

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Trees are Winter poems.

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If you are grieving right now, for the fate of our planet and/or the passing of a loved one, read this beautiful, ruminative essay, which also teaches its reader a lot about birds and #18thc & #19thc poets. Also, tips from John Clare on how to imitate the mating call of bitterns. … who knew?!

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This is the podcast where once a month Drs Jo Waugh & Adam Smith talk about the form, function, future & history of satire in desperate bid to amass quantifiable "REF" impact for their research: t.co/Dwf8Yo79F3

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The fourteenth monthly meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle today, and we finally got around to reading the old master: Iain M Banks. Themes of AI memory, AI guilt, cultural interventions, and much more.

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So many thoughts of death and poetry today--I happened to need to translate this Urdu couplet by Pandit Narayan Chakbast for the novel I'm working on right now and it seemed fitting. Translated with a generous assist from Aftab Ahmad. 🍉🍉🍉

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I got to translate an excerpt from Ilija Matusko’s new book ‘Verdunstung in der Randzone’ for Granta magazine. It’s about memory, memoir, class and chips 🍟 granta.com/evaporation-...

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New month, and a new issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. SF at the Bangalore Lit Fest, Benjamin Labatut's new novel, @adapalmer.bsky.social column on manga and anime, new work by @architamittra, and more.

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CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.

submitted 491 days ago • 2 comments

grateful to @carolineabbott.bsky.social for helping me put this piece together! @nichecanada.bsky.social

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This Halloween catch up with our Ghost Light II: Monstrosities series edited by @carolineabbott.bsky.social niche-canada.org/tag/ghostlig... #envhist #envhum #folklore

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Hey guys check this out (On how climate change has shifted the rhythm of the natural clock, from flower budding to fox denning)

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