My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history

also there are several online interviews where she diacusses faith, such as this one www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-t...

then again, drake maye not

You guuuuyyyys, Reading With The Burneys got reviewed in Women’s Writing! “A fascinating micro-history in the print ecology of the long Romanticism, reconstructed with critical acuity…a useful lens through which to reinterpret an entire cultural landscape…” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

almost as many super bowls as movies in the mcu

oh my god this is the most sensitive and gorgeously attentive review, i am crying

never get involved in a land war is asia and never go up against @benwurgaft.bsky.social when puns are on the line

kids are building a world map puzzle but europe is missing and it’s possible i threw it out in an act of anticolonial resistance

i know there’s olympics hockey but i miss watching the sabres

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can't recommend this latest issue of critical philosophy of race enough -- reach out if you don't have access (i'm not in it or anything, just enthusiastic)

remembering how after a job talk i was asked why i read english romanticism via kant when burke, as an english aesthetic theorist, might suggest a more obvious intellectual lineage. my response — “because kant was right” — did not get me the job.

“No member of Columbia leadership or the board of trustees has ever requested the presence of ICE agents on or near campus,” Samantha Slater, a university spokeswoman, said. wonder why nobody trusts columbia admin 🤔

i wish it weren’t the case but if i’m being honest i probably won’t get to your email today

yes change it to dullard international

been thinking about how the national guard that’s been carrying guns around my kids school playground would be more useful shoveling out cars since dc clearly hasn’t invested in snow removal

class went well — explained how when talks about robert southey as a “dry bob” (impotent, shooting blanks) that’s his “a minor” line

At this point my works cited is basically: Me, Vibes (Just Vibes, 2026), pp. vi-bes.

sometimes i go back and watch donald faison’s “poison” dance just so i can smile

how come all the video games that are highly rated it takes like 20 minutes of watching before you actually do anything fun

harsha walia & alberto toscano discuss fascism & colonialism today @harshawalia.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social www.tni.org/en/article/l...

“[t]he most important sentiment involved in fascism is not a negative but a positive one: rather than hatefulness and destructiveness, fascism is about love and idealism. Most of all it is a search for an idealized self-image through a heartfelt surrender to something higher and more beautiful.”

#OtD 3 Feb 1964 was one of the biggest civil rights protests when over 450,000 NYC students, mainly African-American and Puerto Rican, boycotted school over de facto segregation, organized by activist Bayard Rustin. NYC schools remain highly segregated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1017...

moving from my blumenbach chapter to my kant chapter means moving from a guy that like 6 scholars care about to a guy that like 6 million scholars care about -- so much 2ndary criticism

pitch meeting: ok so it’s star trek but it’s also revenge of the nerds! ghost of gene roddenberry: oh fuck no

not to be that poetry professor but this part of byron’s don juan reads like that eminem line where he lists the best rappers (reggie jay z 2pac biggie et al)

in the nato alphabet her name is charli xray charlie xray

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe. The three editors discuss their recently published anthology. Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽 undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/ Spread the word.

indian literature was the class that really hit for me — having a hard time remembering the others tbh — poetry writing workshops, jazz performance…a couple classes on modernism i think…there were lots of drugs

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

just on repeat lately, is this depression

arch nemesis

new fed chair was at the hoover institution, that’s how you know he sucks

the video cuts in and out but the audio is great

alex tuch pp goal, go sabres!

tomorrow we turn from pb shelley’s overtly political poetry to keats and i’m thinking about how i usually present the version of keats that foregrounds his subtle but important politics but that reading feels a bit hollow now

Resisting the Surveillance Systems Behind ICE’s Kidnappings

vaccines cause safety

rewatching the movies starting with sam raimi’s 2002 version. tobey maguire was good!

billy bragg youtu.be/pl9kcJ6RRmU

he tried

just reposted a lucille clifton someone i don’t know posted and am reminded this is how political poetry makes — has long made — political movements — this form i committed my life to understanding — god i love it so much

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

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my longstanding dislike for dave matthews just did a total 180

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

“‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.’”

ICU > ICE