Announcing the winner and runners up of IALA’s 2025 Creative Writing Grant! Congrats to @nevdon.bsky.social, recipient of this year’s $2,500 grant for his work-in-progress Intercessoress of Snakes: Volume I of the Autobiography of Stephan Bagradian 1902–1929! 👏 Learn more: bit.ly/4j3SuRR

Something I wrote: hyperallergic.com/1052634/the-...

Congratulations to the Armenian team for getting a bronze medal at the 2nd International Olympiad of Artificial intelligence in China. ioai-official.org/china-2025/

Visit Armenia, an Intourist publicity/souvenir record on Melodia from 1974, 7” 33rpm. Glorious vocal and choral stuff here. #vinyl #RotateyDiskers #NowSpinning

The art critter Sara Raza has had the wildest career. She has worked for genocidal dictators, scum bag royals, arch Zionists, and now the dictatorship of Uzbekistan. Yet still remains a c-level darling of the art world. Gross. indiplomacy.com/2025/06/11/u... #sararaza #punkorientalism

A powerful letter against UC Berkeley's unconscionable cancellation of the film My Sweet Land —which documents the #ArtsakhGenocide from the perspective of a boy—was sent by Assemblymembers Harabedian, Caloza, Schultz & Tangipa, as well as State Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez. #ArmenianGenocide

So last year NYC Mayor Eric Adams was indicted for accepting bribes from the Turkish government to ignore the Armenian Genocide. lamag.com/news/feds-ny...

Please SIGN and SHARE this petition that asks NYC Mayor Adams to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide after last year's federal indictment that stated that days before the 2022 Remembrance a Turkish official sought assurances that Adams would refrain from making any statements about it.

You probably know melonpan, Japan's beloved sweet bread. But do you know its Armenian origins? An Armenian-American author dives into the deep history of a confection whose story spans Armenia, America, and Japan. buff.ly/Holm0If

Azerbaijan deliberately targets civilians: bombarding residential areas, using prohibited weapons like white phosphorus, & holding Armenian hostages in inhumane conditions. Indigenous border communities safeguarding their land & culture are most vulnerable. Donate here to protect them. Please share.

The Red Cross is the only group in Azerbaijan that has contact with the Armenian hostages illegally held by Az. www.reuters.com/world/red-cr...

If you are concerned about the pending invasion of Armenian by Azerbaijan, it is a good time to contact your US reps to ask them to stop giving Azeris weapons, which is already banned by section 907 but ignored by the last administrations. More fired, you can donate to VOMA via the QR code below.

The impact of Trump’s foreign aid cuts on Armenian civil society, which has been very dependent on US funding, has been devastating. A whole field in a whole country collapsing - everyone’s programming getting slashed or outright closed down. Imagine this across the world

Azerbaijan’s state oil firm SOCAR has agreed to purchase a 10% stake in Israel’s offshore Tamar gas field from Union Energy, the investment vehicle of Israeli businessman Aaron Frenkel.

This is on brand. The BBC has been mostly cowardly in reporting about Azeri war aggression and crimes. A “both/sides organization”. And it still is getting kicked out of Azerbaijan. It is almost like a lesson in caving in to fascists for all the press is here. www.reuters.com/world/azerba...

New It Could Happen Here @jamesstout.bsky.social is joined by Nevdon Jamgochian to discuss the use of COP 29 to greenwash Azerbaijan’s attempts at the removal of Armenian people from their ancestral lands in Artsakh and the the history of the conflict. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

A very important extension of the EU border observation mission in Armenia for two more years. It has successfully helped prevent the attacks by Azerbaijan into Armenia that occurred regularly from early 2021 to late 2022.

Sorry to continually doom post, but I don't see how Azerbaijan could be clearer about invading soon. Aliyev’s domestic problems are mounting and CoP29 backfired in the country, drawing more attention to the petrodictatorship. www.intellinews.com/azerbaijan-s...

Just before Azerbaijan’s final assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, rumors swirled about a mass prison being built in Azerbaijan for tens of thousands of Armenian men. Turns out there was something to the rumors.

Emboldened by what is going on elsewhere, the next genocidal imperialist makes some claims.

Banging the war drum: www.byteseu.com/631913/

This is bad. Azerbaijan is claiming that Armenia is attacking them. Which is ridiculous but they seem to feel necessary to lay grounds for their eventual assult. See 2016, 2020, and 2023. en.trend.az/azerbaijan/p...

Gaslighting in the form of a country. Aliyev says the Caucasus "should be the region of peace" while ordering 30 flights of heavy military equipment from Israel in the last year (about a 3rd more than he did in the year before he launched attacks in 2020 and 2023). www.aa.com.tr/en/world/sou...

This is a very strange family dynamic. Dads usually get other people to award participation trophies. But after you give them goldmines and double digit percentages of Azerbaijan’s economy, not much is left, I guess. en.apa.az/cop29/presid....

Satellite imagery analyses yield evidence of Azerbaijan’s destruction of Armenian cultural heritage sites in the last seven months as experts warn of cultural genocide.

Ahead of COP29, Azerbaijan Cultivated Allies in the U.K.’s House of Lords Who Praised its Leadership | @occrp.org

Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan : Will Turkey and Azerbaijan's plan to take over the Zangezur Corridor come to fruition? Iranian reports of a concentration of approximately 150,000 Iranian soldiers on the country's northern border with Armenia.

“The EPDE’s head of electoral integrity said election monitoring could not be genuine if “the host regime pays your expenses”.. parliamentarians who chose to take free trips to observe elections in Azerbaijan “serve as a tool to legitimise what the regime wants..world to believe is a true election”.

Forgot about this. So desperate.

Chinese media is reporting that influencers paid roughly 17k to 38k USD to be platformed at COP29 as featured speakers. Maybe holding it in Azerbaijan was a bad idea. #COP29 #azerbaijan

My dispatch on recent media crackdown in #Azerbaijan post #COP29 for @hrw.org hrw.org/news/2024/12...

It looks like the weapons flights between #Azerbaijan and #Israel via Silk Way Airlines has started again after COP29 paused the historically large number of shipments from Israel in Sept/Nov.

Not going to link the article, but Sara Raza continues to be the dumbest person in the art world (tough trophy) and artnet continues to be garbage. @sararaza @artnet.bsky.social Word salad nonsense. Not Orientalism. Later she implies Muslims are the only people in the Middle East.

@thesentryorg.bsky.social has released a wealth of info on how #Azerbaijan #oligarchs launder their money through #Turkey #UAE #Malta amongst others #corruption #MoneyLaundering atlas.thesentry.org/azerbaijan-a...

The Azerbaijani government is broadcasting loudly their eminent intention to invade through their chat gpt fantasy history of “Western Azerbaijan” or what we call Armenia. qerbiazerbaycan.com/en/

More to come:

Grim for Armenia: Azerbaijan increases its already enormous military budget (17.4% of total budget). In response to Armenia refusing to cede more land, change its constitution and stop arming its much smaller military. aze.media/azerbaijan-i...

Genocide in Artsakh was a training ground for Gaza’s ecocide: www.tni.org/en/article/s...

So for some reason, this year’s Miss Armenia pageant was held in Moscow, and not in Armenia and now the winner of Miss Armenia 2024 is a Russian woman and will be repping Armenia at Miss Universe pageant. Beauty pageant ppl in Armenia saying they were never made aware about the pageant in Moscow.

A short story I wrote about a Caspian dictator: mangalmedia.substack.com/p/everyone-h...

From the 1944 Armenian American cookbook Dinner at Omar Khayyam’s: “I looked out into a street and saw thousands of men wearing fezzes marching toward the depot. [in Kansas City] My God, I thought, are there Turks over here too?…

Henry Kissinger is dead. My heartfelt condolences to Samantha Power