I keep up with books because, well, I get paid to write about them. So here’s some good ones: - love/agression by @theworldsgreatestwriter.com - disobedience by @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social - stag dance by @torreypeters.bsky.social - forgotten work by @jasonguriel.bsky.social

NEW: Behnam Amini on anti-imperialism and Israel’s war on Iran. www.midnightsunmag.ca/useful-enemi...

Hey you know what. Here’s a thread of transfemme-authored books I love

I love both of @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social books and this book of poems rocked my world with its sharply defined politics and tender humanity. It’ll rock you too

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NEW: Midnight Sun speaks to Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras organizer Martha Ojeda about building solidarities across North American borders. www.midnightsunmag.ca/internationa...

Daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: Disobedience by @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social (@bookhugpress.bsky.social): bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/... -and- God of River Mud by @vicsizemore.bsky.social (@wvupress.bsky.social): wvupressonline.com/god-of-river... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

NEW: In their poem “Villiform,” Jade Wallace (@nycterosea.bsky.social) playfully refigures disability as poetic constraint. www.midnightsunmag.ca/villiform/

NEW: David Camfield on current conditions – and hope – for communists. An excerpt from Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (@fernpub.bsky.social). www.midnightsunmag.ca/what-can-we-...

Trade analyst Stuart Trew from @policyalternatives.ca says Carney will need to be pushed to spend on the right things—not east-to-west pipelines but green electricity grids, not handouts to billionaires but support for workers. Join our live election coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-w...

Tonight!! Hope you can join us! 6:30pm ET TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas Street W. @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social @julesfdelorme.bsky.social

6:30pm start (ET) TYPE Books Junction 2887 Dundas W. A busy #canlit weekend. We hope you’ll join us and three incredible authors! @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social @julesfdelorme.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social

This Sunday! @aaronkreuter.bsky.social Jules Delorme and @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social How do we reconcile with the past, with all we know to be true today for us & for the world? @bookhugpress.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ca/e/1291662109...

An excerpt of Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al. is up at @midnightsunmag.bsky.social. Author Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher begins unpacking the gaps in historical knowledge, adding details to our understanding of the Marx family that have long been ignored. www.midnightsunmag.ca/a-family-of-...

NEW: Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher on the women in Marx’s life and the rediscovery of feminist histories. 

An excerpt from Jenny, Eleanor, and Laura, et al.: This is Not a Book About Marx, (@btlbooks.com). www.midnightsunmag.ca/a-family-of-...

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social: @johncke.bsky.social on transforming the trade war into class war.

NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...

Never mind rain, April will be all about books!!! In person or on live-stream: TYPE Books Junction, readings and a Q and A with Jules Delorme, Aaron Kreuter & daniel sarah karasik. @gooselane.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social

NEW: Jane Shi on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action. www.midnightsunmag.ca/ritual-and-r...

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today in Midnight Sun Magazine, really excited to publish Jane Shi's beautiful piece on disability justice, Palestine solidarity, and faith as action – thinking by turns with Octavia E. Butler, Jody Chan, Wendy Trevino, Isabella Hammad, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Salar Mohandesi, and others

"Do we really suppose that Canadian workers have more in common with Canadian plutocrats such as Galen Weston than with an American or Mexican worker? Whatever the outcome of this moment’s trade dispute, wealth in North America will still be controlled by capital,"

Here’s my response to the resurgence of Canadian nationalism — left & otherwise — in the context of the tariff war: a political dead end, we need instead a much more far reaching, & internationalist, response animated by struggles from below. www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...

NEW in Midnight Sun: @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders. www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...

Check out our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social by @alansearslefty.bsky.social

NEW: Alan Sears on the generative desiring at the heart of revolutionary politics, a potential antidote to capitalism’s dehumanizing effects. www.midnightsunmag.ca/eros-and-rev...

Happy Friday all! Today I’m thrilled to present TFR’s second guest column, a review of last year’s dystopian debut novel Disobedience by @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social, written by critic Roz Milner. I hadn’t heard of this book when Roz brought it to me, which is exactly what I’m looking for 🤩

“We have to not just be there in the fight together; we have to give each other the resources and the strength, we have to rely on each other in ways that are much deeper than just organizing together or showing up for events or actions with each other. In order to do that, we have to have trust.”

I closed off 2024 with Disobedience, @joy-and-defiance.bsky.social’s amazing work of speculative fiction. Provocative, imaginative, and a joy to read, it’s a book I’d highly recommend to anyone looking to think deeply about justice, collective liberation, and defiance!

NEW: Malika Sharma on grief and solidarity. "If I loved this almost-baby with this intensity, what could I imagine...of the families trading children with their relatives, so that if and when the bombs come, at least some of their bloodline might persist?" www.midnightsunmag.ca/bloodlines/

Our latest from @midnightsunmag.bsky.social

loved having this rich conversation with Fathima Cader & May E!

NEW: Fathima Cader and May E on nurturing solidarities between Indigenous, Palestinian, and Tamil struggles – and the trust- and relationship-building at the heart of such efforts.

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NEW: Midnight Sun is excited to publish an excerpt from the founding text of The Peoples Want – a new network dedicated to revolutionary internationalism from below – preceded by a brief conversation with a comrade building that project. www.midnightsunmag.ca/the-revoluti...

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