For the Duluth News Tribune, Jay Gabler wrote about why so many romance novels are set in the world of hockey:

I don’t think any of us realize how different young people’s reality is from the millennial reality Bluesky, Instagram, and other old social media runs on. Fandom is everything now —politics, identity formation, discourse, community. Charlie Kirk is just an introduction, D4vd will break your reality

hey, cool: Agustina Bazterrica and me in DC at the National Book Festival. Not sure if the audience'll be in this, but there's better than a thousand people out there:

Writers and speakers: have you noticed a decline in your event invitations? So far, I'm only speaking at Stanford and Butte College this semester, when usually I average ~8 events per semester. Is it budget cuts, DEI limitations, anti-woke climates? Magical/Realism came out just last year. Strange.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The senate UNANIMOUSLY passed this resolution. A national holiday to celebrate a fascist who spewed nothing but white nationalist hate speech. www.foxnews.com/politics/sen...

Just saw on TikTok that someone is teaching a class on how fantasy aids the revolutionary imagination, with language from my book in the syllabus, but does not list my book or selections from it 💔 All I ask is that you cite. You don’t even have to assign my book. Citation is the only value I have

I fuck with this

“ He’s MLK……But don’t quote him.” The truly bizarre people who are so desperate for heroes, so impoverished of leaders with integrity and goodness, so without boundaries that they are continuously manufacturing fantasies of their own nobility…..It would be just pitiable if it wasn’t so dangerous.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Also the LA Times and Wall Street Journal, and they’re currently trying to purchase CNN

Thank you.

My usual reaction is that this is an abomination, that AI extracts and commodifies the Black and Indigenous body first. But I also see this as a form of mass cultural grief, like we know something human about how we once made music is lost, and this is how we revisit the feeling art once gave us

Hey y'all! I have a three-part interview up now at La Cuenta, Stanford's online magazine and newsletter exploring issues of migration and politics. Parts 1 and 3 in the links below! Part 2: "Why are borders continually produced in the imagination?" lacuenta.substack.com/p/why-are-bo...

@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social goodreads added you to their Hispanic Heritage month book list! 💜

To condense something so true into one small line

🎉 #ConnectedLearning2025 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 & 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱! 🎉 🎙 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 • Meryl Alper (MIT/Online) (@merylalper.bsky.social) • Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Stanford/Online) (@elnorterecuerda.bsky.social) • Danaé Metaxa (UC Irvine/Online)

Chopped and screwed.

“A hallmark of being a Black child in advanced literature classes is the ability to separate the art from the artist, even before you know you’re doing it.”

Nah. The orcs and Uruk-hai were constructed from Tolkien's deep-seated anxieties toward immigrants from the West Indies infiltrating his perfect little Oxford town. Monsters and migrant anxiety are built from the same fantasy imaginary, as I wrote about in MAGICAL/REALISM (May 2024).

Something I'm noting as I research my next book is that the introduction of a new technology that abstracts and devalues labor is *always* an opportunity for a workers' revolution, and in the West, this has almost always been squashed. With AI, we have such an opportunity now.

everyone falls silent the moment there are actual political prisoners risking their lives for each other and for Palestine. that is the reality we have to contend with

👀🖼️ #looted #nazi #art

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Kiko Capile.

We’re revising US capitalism in a more statist direction. But not going socialist. Borrowing some of the politicized economic intervention from socialism and using it to advance a nationalist political project. Call it “social nationalism,” perhaps.

ICE gassed a school. I know the corrections are coming: “no, they gassed a neighborhood so much, it forced them to flee.” The school is in the neighborhood. They gassed the school. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Why has no one at big 5 publisher picked up a book about Abby Ybarra and the other incredible latina pickup winders who worked for Leo Fender and, essentially, created electric guitar tone as we know it?

ASOIAF IS A CHARACTER-DRIVEN LITERARY WORK, FILLED WITH UNCERTAINTY, MYSTERY, AND CRITIQUE. BRANDON SANDERSON IS A MORMON ZIONIST AND EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS FORMULAIC WRITING PHILOSOPHY IS ARTISTICALLY AND IDEOLOGICALLY OPPOSED TO GRRM’S GREY, EVER-COMPLICATING WORLD. collider.com/george-rr-ma...

📣 applications are open for periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color! 📣 if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you live in Colorado get out there and make some noise about this however you can

"Because making contact with the disappeared means encountering the specter of what the state has tried to repress" from Ghostly Matters, Avery F. Gordon

"the greatest social desensitization laboratory ever" That is exactly what it is.

“They are not migrants. They are not ‘undocumented.’ They are an invading army. The largest invasion in American history.” Y’all’s imaginations are wild

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

This is on WorldCon. They should screen people’s questions in advance so this doesn’t happen. If organizers do this for panels I’ve been on—me, a nobody—for someone like GRRM, this should be standard practice. Serious negligence on WorldCon’s part.

Absolutely no hate at all here, but I love that I only know what's going on in this tweet from a combination of Ted Lasso and old Beyoncé interview clips (look up the Beyoncé "Tottenham vs Arsenal we're having a bubble" video, it keeps me alive in dark times 😂)

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Smithsonian exhibits "are the product of a lot of hard work by dedicated and honorable people who want to present the most accurate picture of American history as possible. That includes the triumphs and the tragedies.” --Annette Gordon-Reed, president of the Organization of American Historians

Ironically one of the first examples in the clip is movies about defeating Nazis, which if they were made now would be scorned as liberal propaganda.

It’s posts like these that make BlueSky feel more like Facebook than Twitter. The double line break between “she // shall bring”? The comma splice and spaces before the punctuation? Why is there a chick emoji? Is that Tweety? Why Tweety? “Smash the 💙!” No. Absolutely not.

The “goal” is to send “all Palestinian civilians from Gaza City” to “the” “camps.”

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

Clair Obscur (2025) @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

This is incorrect. If your people group has never gone through colonization, mass sterilization, or medical experimentation, you don’t understand the full scope of eugenics as part of a racial project.

NSF and NIH cut off almost 300 grants to UCLA. Story by @dangaristo.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Bending the knee one after the next