"Claudia Jones was attracted to the Party by the Black Belt Nation thesis (Black people as Nation within a nation) but also by the promises of a 'new woman' who was a full citizen with access to economic independence and birth control... She wrote about the Italian assault in Ethiopia. "

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Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

is the radical left in the room with us right now?

In recent weeks, the Israeli army has launched a renewed military campaign in the northern West Bank. Palestinians say these operations aim to establish a new “security reality” to facilitate the rebuilding of Israeli settlements dismantled in 2005. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...

Trans rights are workers' rights.

60 minutes reaching its youngest demographic in the show‘s history

The Buffalo Bills are back in the playoffs for the 7th straight year!

we just finished this — incredible. i don’t play a ton of video games (mostly madden and dumb iphone games) but this was probably my favorite one ever.

glad we paid james cook #billsmafia

the great thing about the kids decorating the tree is that it ends up looking kinda terrible and you love it all the more

thinking about whether there will be ai auteurs whose slop is instantly recognized as *their* slop

amazing game all around but puka nacua 225 yards and 2 tds good lord

pascal’s wager but with santa

dear abby,

america continues to dumb

nothing like the feel of a good writing session, the part before the doubts set in — it’s truly sustaining

fuck it lets eat all the ice cream

Such a good thread for JA's 250.

Please help if you can chuffed.org/project/1574...

Today is Austen’s birthday! I’ve been thinking (a lot) about my place in the Austen250 commemorations. The “how it started” vs. “how it’s going” of it all. 2017

🎶do you wanna stay in bed all day? do you remember feeling any other way?🎵

all i want for christmas is for it to be over

#OtD 16 Dec 1890 women workers at a silk mill in Bradford, UK, walked out on strike to protest upcoming Christmas Eve pay cuts. The strike lasted 19 weeks and ended in defeat, with eviction threats, military presence, and the near-starvation of workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8769...

i’ve taken a couple days to play video games with the kids and man this spider-man game (from 2018 apparently?) is, well, amazing. grew up on spider-man comics when all the other geeks were into x-men and this totally fulfills the childhood dream of being spider-man.

aiden hutchinson wow

i’ll wait until the game is over but at some point we need to talk about how beane needs to move mountains to get a wr like tyson or tate

difference between a star rb1 and a gritty young rb2: ray davis fights for extra yards when cook steps out of bounds

go bills

“hey siri how do i undo this update”

if the bills lose they have to name the baby “drake maye steinfeld allen”

thank you to those who’ve supported badar’s legal defense — still a long way to go! www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas! me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong

Today plus there is a streaming link fyi forgeproject.com/programs/for...

tears for fears had a lot of bops huh

did zoom just lag or did i briefly black out

nearing (very slowly) the finish line for a project that's taken almost 10 years i tell myself i will never take on another scholarly edition again. BUT someone needs to update bendyshe's horrible 1865 translation of blumenbach's anthropological treatises.

that time when @adamrothman.bsky.social subbed for my class on race power and justice and when i got back i could tell all the students liked him better

Penultimate(?) set of proofs for this calendar year @routledgebooks.bsky.social!

An essay I wrote in 2025 alongside an artwork I love, “If a braid is made of water”: Malcolm Peacock’s Open-Air Sculpture of Hand and Hill” published in ASAP journal. If interested in reading please message and l’ll send link. Thank you ❤️

me, popping awake at 3:30am: i need to learn more about flags!

every once in a the newshour will get a guest who brings tmz energy to pbs

idk if epithets count but paule marshall’s “brown girl, brownstones” (1959) has been at the top of my list since i read it last year — can’t say enough about that book

(they clapped after our last class meeting today and i welled up)

If you're looking for a book to review, my 2024 book currently has 0 reviews, and I only know of 1 that is forthcoming. The book is about institutions like anthologies, writing workshops & Oprah's book club and how they circulate "world literature" in the US. www.umasspress.com/978162534840...

thank you to those who’ve supported badar’s legal defense — still a long way to go! www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

seen on capitol hill

josh. allen.

the way both allen and burrow can lead a quick do or die drive (mahomes too obv)