Showed Klee’s Angelus Novus to my sister while rambling on Walter Benjamin and she, biologist, just said: Cool, the angel looks kinda cute, like a human alpaca. Cannot unsee this.

Die Bundesregierung hat heute eine Aufrüstung gegen Linksextremismus verkündet. Am 27. Januar. Am Holocaust-Gedenktag. Die Vertreter*innen der selbsternannten bürgerlichen Mitte sind so dermassen lost. Die sehen nicht mal, was die Stunde geschlagen hat, wenn die AfD gleich auf mit ihnen liegt.

Listen to my friend @sujatroghosh.bsky.social and learn. And maybe, just maybe, it will be an experience of both increased awareness and solace for you, too. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Save the date! Canisia Lubrin will be chatting about her new book THE WORLD AFTER RAIN with Between the Covers host @davidnaimon.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social on 2/3 at 7pm. More details here: buff.ly/C2LHnsL

We cannot cross until we carry each other.

Aus Fehlern lernen... 😬 Wiener Kunstakademie bietet Donald Trump Studienplatz an

She has squirrel survival skills and I adore her for it.

Amen!

Oury Jalloh Das war Mord. Möge er in Frieden ruhen #OuryJallohDasWarMord

Aktuell findet eine große & umfassende bundesweite Umfrage zu Diskriminierung in Deutschland statt. Es geht um Alter, Behinderung, Geschlecht, Herkunft, Religion usw. Und je mehr mitmachen, umso klarer wird das Bild. Nehmt teil & sagts weiter! @beauftragte.bsky.social www.diskriminierung-umfrage.de

🦩 #pareidoodle #pareidolia

#Stipendium Im Rahmen von Erasmus+ bietet sich die Gelegenheit für Studierende der Tübinger Germanistik, an einem der größten germanistischen Institut Afrikas mit langer Forschungstradition zu studieren: an der Université de Lomé in Togo!👇1/3

#Diop erzählt welche Vorteile es geben könnte, das Thema #Kolonialismus in die #Gedenkstättenkonzeption aufzunehmen ⬇️

I interviewed @natashaakelly and @kirstingwyer.bsky.social for The Oxford Polyglot, discussing Black German literature and thought and ways of writing and reading… www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyg...

Granta contributors and friends reflect on their year in reading. granta.com/a-year-in-re...

Good morning, please can you share this petition by @peatfree.bsky.social to end peat sales - all previous petitions were for the Conservative Government, and we're now close to making this law with Labour so peat habitat can never be used again actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Berlin entwickelt Erinnerungskonzept zur Kolonialzeit. Berlin will seine koloniale Vergangenheit sichtbar machen. Mit einem neuen Erinnerungskonzept sollen Denkmäler, Umbenennungen und ein Lern- und Erinnerungsort entstehen. @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social www.radioeins.de/programm/sen...

This is amazing. What a teacher!

Wiederfinden kann Della seine Perspektive im Projekt heimaten, das von Ibou Diop und Max Czollek im HKW entwickelt wurde. Es widmet sich einer Neudeutung des Heimatbegriffs im Sinne einer pluralen Gesellschaft und macht die Arbeit zahlreicher Initiativen sichtbar. www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195...

Heute Abend 19 uhr lese ich mit Hadija in der Stadtbibliothek Treptow-Köpenick. Letzte Berliner Lesung 2025! www.berlin.de/stadtbibliot...

When my friends wanted to be Hermione Granger, my 10-year-old self wanted to be like Iris Berben. Unattainable but still inspiring.

This time of year, when the light grows soft and the streets lie crispy. 🍁

This is the book that has its own spot in my luggage. I finished reading it a while back. I am not ready to let go of it yet, so it lives near me.

On Tues, Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah attempted to fly to London to attend two conferences. He was stopped by authorities and told he could not travel. It's been almost 2 months since Alaa was pardoned. It's time for him to be allowed to travel too www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Sei nicht stolz auf deine KI-Sachen.

Listening to Julius Asal’s Siena Tapes while people watching makes me like this world a little better

The catastrophic state of modern languages in this country! When I was doing my PhD in the 1980s, Nottingham was a real powerhouse for #German studies.

🖤

Took my PhD worries on a hike and they couldn‘t keep up.

Eine ärgerliche Zeit, um ein Gehirn zu haben

Between conferences 🫶🏼

Sehnsucht nach Unterholz, Borke, Wabe, Nest.

Catch Chet'la Sebree on tour for her poetry collection Blue Opening (9.16.25).💙✨ “These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.” —Publishers Weekly Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...

Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... #freepalestine

Lieb ich 🫶🏼

Honoured to have presented my work on critical whiteness as part of the Black Literature and Culture in German panel, thoughtfully curated by @kirstingwyer.bsky.social, at this year’s @ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.

I have been vicariously rivered. What a book! What an interview! tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...

It has been such a pleasure to host this podcast for the past three years.

Off to another summer with Walter Benjamin - and my emotional support selection :)

Flower friendship

Mehr NS-Raubgut als gedacht: Ein Forschungsprojekt an der @goetheuni.bsky.social bringt zahlreiche geraubte Bücher ans Licht – u. a. aus jüdischem Besitz:

Ich möchte reich werden um möglichst viel Land aufzukaufen und das absolut verwildern zu lassen, das ist mein Traum

I am so happy to be part of the OGN team, now for three years, which makes it one of the most important and valuable and still exciting elements of my PhD journey. I arrived as an academic baby and now I feel like I can do this thing. I love challenges that allow you to grow.

This is Granta 172: Badlands. Our summer edition traverses inhospitable terrain, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine. The issue publishes on Thursday 17 July.

We use @ursulakleguin.com as a portal for our conversation. Particularly the lines: “One way to stop seeing trees or rivers or hills only as a natural resource is to class them as fellow beings—kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look where objectifying it has gotten us."

This feels like home

Ich habe heute diese sehr spitz zulaufenden Vögel getroffen.