Teaching the basic concept of the Global South just got even more danceable

"Losing sight of the importance of hemispheric discourses in the break from empire, however, risks overstating the status of the nation-state system as a necessary outcome of the American revolutionary period."

My Poets & Writers class sold out! BUT, there is a waiting list, so maybe if enough people request a spot they'll open it up! I'll be talking about "mnemonic reading," and how pop culture can help us fill gaps in personal and public memory. Excited to teach it! www.pw.org/content/work...

Farm workers. The fields on the field. The legacies of slavery and colonialism—the sugar cane plantation, labor power, power crisis—despite it all, the future reaches through the tv to the past to make our postcolonial present. The people of the Americas live on: seguimos aquí.

Not sure what you mean by theories, but there is very little knowledge production on Latine racial identity. Latines are taught to assimilate as part of an ongoing colonial project to empty the land of indigenous people, artificially inflate white majorities, and fight communism in Latin America

Should I submit my 20th faculty application of this academic year or make another Jon Snow edit for Tiktok 😭 it's been an absolutely brutal couple of years man, holy shit

I keep thinking about these poor kids seeing their mom arrested for doing her job.

I just finished teaching a j-term course on neofascism at middlebury, and I framed the class around the idea that the main distinction between pre- and post-war fascism is the dominance of the cult of death. fascism pre-war seeks the state; post-war seeks immolation of self, state, volk, and nation.

I want to start a press that sells $5 mass market paperbacks, with introductions by contemporary figures. Not a boutique press because reading is not a luxury. We’ll need to be subsidized to keep the price point, but we can’t let mass market pbs die to $50 hardbacks and Anna’s Archive 💔

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

The mass market paperback is what most people think of when they hear the word "paperback." It's the printed edition meant for the regular person. It's smaller and cheaper than the hardback & trade paperback, and it's going away.

All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...

There are few poets I trust more who can capture the constant present of the shattered colonial real, the specter of the past, the looping nature of un-time, unreality, that is forced into a procession line of exit and erasure, than Chaun Webster. lithub.com/letter-from-...

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

Most people do not grasp how warped our reality is that ICE even exists. Immigration and Naturalization Service, formerly INS, was a CIVIC agency—part of the Department of Labor. Racism and xenophobia alone militarized it under George W Bush following 9/11. This cannot be reformed. ABOLISH ICE NOW

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher: "A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction," Wednesday evenings Feb 4-April 29, 5:30-7PM ET. Online via YouTube. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... #books #liberation

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I interviewed Ethan Hawke today at Sundance. How’s y’all’s day going?? @vulture.com

What we’re seeing in Minneapolis began in Ferguson in 2014. Militarization of police, IDF tactics, gassing protestors w/ the same gas used on Palestinians. Between 2009-2016, Obama deported 3 million people without criminal records. And Palantir began operating in 2019. You weren’t paying attention.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

Liam Conejo Ramos’ little Spider-Man backpack is destroying me. A five year old used as bait, and detained. No one protected him, not even the heroes of our imagination. May all our fantasies be revealed as the imperialist propaganda and failure of imagination they are.

It's my birthday today. No celebration. Instead, I'm getting on a plane at 7pm tonight to be with my mom for her breast cancer surgery tomorrow. My birthday wish is that you buy my book so that I can earn out, and hopefully keep writing. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

"Migration is an act inextricably bound to childhood the wolf womb, the open portal, the time-wound, the dark pines shining back eyes" Happy birthday to El Norte Recuerda! Watch Villarreal perform an excerpt of her poem "Architect 3" in this film created with Haymarket Books.

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Another immigrant, Luis Gustavo Nuñez Cazares, died in ICE custody in Conroe, Texas. The cause was heart failure. Rest in peace, Luis.

ICE can now spy on every phone in your neighborhood. www.wired.com/story/securi...

Border Patrol agents beat and tased Anastacio Hernandez to death on video in 2010. If you don't remember that, it's because you weren't paying attention.

My latest @npr.org story: The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress if the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting n.pr/49tevoK

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has officially shut down after 58 years following the elimination of its funding under Donald Trump. It served as the primary funder for PBS Kids.

Thank you.

Even the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, a neoliberal institution, won the award after effectively proving that colonial extraction was the worst thing that has ever happened to the global south in terms of long-term outcomes in wealth and stability www.npr.org/2024/10/14/n...

I’m not sure how much better I could have done in my PHD. I won a Whiting award, my dissertation was longlisted for the national book and national book critics circle awards. And yet, still no job, no health insurance, huge student loan payment, and no income for 2026 as a single parent.

Freedom ☺️💙😎

Our government is a fucking private equity firm

“Cuban-trained”

“Finally ended by Trump” Reuters? This was an illegal coup by a fascist pariah state. It’s your job to use precise language. What the fuck is this.

Heard NPR’s correspondent, who is not in Venezuela, explain that people in Venezuela woke up to this news. Yet everyone I’ve heard from was up all night. Intense observation on what the U.S. state is and isn’t doing requires critical attention to what the U.S. press is and isn’t doing, too.

America is a pariah nation and we should be treated as such.

America is an abjectly lawlessness and murderously evil country. Damn it to Hell.

There's no danger of wealth redistribution, still, $160.35 trillion distributed evenly between us, babies to elders, would be $471,465 each. A couple would get $942,930, a family of four would have $1.89 million combined. Imagine that world.

day one in mamdani’s new york