ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018.. Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine). pghrev.com/what-mamdani...

Get ready for this issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social — it’s coming soon and it’s fantastic. Featuring this incredible work by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as well as equally extraordinary essays by @lerikscline.bsky.social @carolinelevine.bsky.social and Ruth McAdams.

“brown optimism” newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/30/a...

i give you my talk, you make me slides?

still floored. mamdani!

maybe the bills will trade for jakobi meyers! maybe the bills will trade for chris olave! maybe the bills will trade for deebo samuel!

celebrating by staying up reading “citizen and subject”

Or the new kid can get one! Goal Ostland!!!!! (Don’t you dare call a fucking high stick)

some mighty wonderful poetry; tolu is an amazing writer, yall...

Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo to Josh Allen postgame: "I don't wanna play you anymore. I want you to retire."

rochester

sometimes you forget that josh can throw farther than 6 yards

butker: [thanks god after making a chip shot field goal] god: “ugh this douchebag again“

ok but real talk? bills need to go get budda baker

sorry jays fans, you’ll be back. sincerely, the tigers haven’t won a series since i was 8

just a fantastic series

wild to see someone double down on their own racist comment with a self-retweet

wow. rojas. wow.

Join us on 2nd November at 7 pm GMT. #WeKeepTelling We are raising funds for wonderful people & projects in Gaza while celebrating Palestinian poetry. Now, more than ever, we keep telling, sharing, giving. Please do what you can- and join us! buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...

michael bublazing saddles

🎶 it was the loveliest party that i ever attended 🎶

“no, dan, the blend is great but do we have to call it that?”

candy hangover

november baseball

yeah sorry not making my syllabi public in the present climate

France should have kept its language at home then.

“The Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP Local 6741 are delighted to announce: ‘Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education.’ This series of five webinars takes place from October to December.”

drawing

millennials are killing capitalism, new episode on halloween and the imperial 80s

177,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher, facing violence, hunger, and fear. Please support and/or share.

mood

177,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher, facing violence, hunger, and fear. Please support and/or share.

This is a real: Pope Leo XIV was gifted a Buffalo Bills jersey. The Diocese of Buffalo said Bishop Fisher met with the Pope on Monday to discuss the ongoing bankruptcy filing, among other issues. Pope Leo was said to have "expressed his gratitude for this symbol of hometown pride." #billsmafia

final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars: 1. pick a topic you care about 2. don’t use ai 3. get smarter

that time when they fired the whole staff of the Pisa Commission of Fine Arts

Solidarity with BL workers on strike

This essay began its life a long time ago, in conversation with an @elccprogramme.bsky.social Summer Scholar, Tuioleloto Laura Toailoa. It’s taken years to bring some of that early thinking to fruition. Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award

"Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said that [Israel's] strikes [killing at least 46 children] were carried out in full coordination with the U.S."

the future of the broncos defense is unsurtain

Thanks to @drreznicek.bsky.social for a punchy and perfectly formed talk on the treatment of non-healthy bodies in bodies politic, for answering wide-ranging questions with care and generosity, and teaching @drbeard79.bsky.social a new word in ‘normate’ 🖤

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Please share!!! The American Friends of Jamaica has just announced $1M matching fund- a 💵 for 💵 match for donations going through their channels theafj.org The Jamaican Diaspora at work. #HurricaneMelissa

Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST. Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

#OtD 29 Oct 1956 Israeli armed forces massacred 48 Palestinian citizens of Israel in the village of Kafr Qasem, inc women (one of whom was pregnant) and children. At 4:30pm, they brought in a 5pm curfew, and killed people as they came home from work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1164...

somehow i went from “i should read more about that weird skull collector guy” to “johann gottfried blumenbach invented the category of brownness in the third edition of his de generis humani varietate (1795)”

Both children have had fevers for the last three days

Rare 1998 Dilla tape with "One for Lauryn," the beat that was supposed to go to D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill to be on the Voodoo album www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFL0...