Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

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It’s reading week muthafuckas! And I’m all over it! 📖✌🏾💕🎶

New #OpenAccess article by @vethompson.bsky.social -- "Policing as Un-Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe" doi.org/10.1111/anti...

@demonicgrounds.bsky.social Hey, happy new(ish) year, Katherine! Did you see this article about "deep reading as praxis" and Ida B. Wells-Barnett that takes as a point of departure your analysis of reading? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

At AAG Detroit in 2025, Dr. LaToya Eaves was in dialogue with Drs. Katherine McKittrick, Willie Jamaal Wright, and Kevin Grove about the pathbreaking book, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. @spacedemands.bsky.social @blackgeographies.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Their discussion, “A conversation on Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods (eds), Black Geographies and the Politics of Place” has been published in Progress in Human Geography. Read it at the 🔗 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 📸 : Rosemary Ayelazuno (UTK Geog alumna!)

Some more faves for #BlackHistoryMonth

so jazzed to be in conversation with these smarties! take a look in the same place where most of my writings can be found (katherinemckittrick.com)

Beyond the Kumbla is out from Africa World Press. It includes the full unabridged long version of Sylvia Wynter’s “Beyond Miranda’s Meanings.” I’m jazzed and grateful to have an essay on SW’s piece in this collection.

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“What the garlic would need to send up its contribution to spring flamboyance… is precisely this long period of cold. This requirement is called the ‘memory of winter,’ or, more scientifically, ‘vernalization.’ Apples and almonds and peach trees won’t flower without the memory of winter either...”

Hi! We met and talked about Sylvia Wynter and Palestine for five hours today ✌🏾💕

The Spring 2026 catalog from @fordhampress.bsky.social just dropped! #Audiofuturism issuu.com/fordhamup/do...

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New book review -- Anna Corbett Schlenz (CUNY Graduate Center) on Lise Vogel's "The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism" antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @plutopress.bsky.social @kmunro-econ.bsky.social

Toni Cade Bambara said, “I don’t know what folks mean when they talk about writers’ ‘block.‘ I can’t keep up with myself... Yeh. Yeh I like this life I’m leading. Now all I need is a dude I can talk with and laugh with.”

This coming week on the podcast!

(1) As I re-read “1492: A New World View” I am reminded of Wynter’s insistence that the enactment of classificatory schemas have very tightly entwined motivators:

San Francisco peeps! Will be joining my pal @foxworthshow.bsky.social and some others for a live show the week of Super Bowl on Feb 5. Tickets available here - please share! www.eventbrite.com/e/espn-nfl-a...

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Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren... | @bostonreview.bsky.social

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Listen in as Joyce E. King talks about education, the foundational values of Black Studies, and the complex history of the field. Great convo, here or on most streams: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

John hosts Katherine McKittrick on the podcast to talk about gender, Black study, diaspora, design, and the aesthetic. Fabulous conversation, listen in here or at your fave stream: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

nasrin and I fuelin' the fonkay! I am so grateful for this conversation! thisispublicparking.com/posts/part-o...

What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan! @udadisi.bsky.social @samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social #geosky @darajapress.bsky.social

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"GIS, Policing and Us" -- a brilliant resource (partly funded by the Antipode Foundation) for investigating the entanglement of Geographic Information Systems and urban policing in North America gispolicingandus.com

Sp26 see a major publishing event: a 20th anniversary ed of Katherine McKittrick's influential DEMONIC GROUNDS: BLACK WOMEN AND THE CARTOGRAPHIES OF STRUGGLE with a foreword by Simone Browne speaking to the long impact an enduring relevance of groundbreaking book. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792141...

And a major contribution to black studies: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF KATHERINE MCKITTRICK. Expertly curated by Brittany Meché & Camilla Hawthorne, this collection gathers McKittrick's most significant writings. At 544 pages, this will be essential. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

Toronto Wynter

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black geographies 2026…

“So the Detroit that eventually became Detroit, you can see it has at least three different grid plans. There’s that original kind of shattered shard of Woodward’s plan of threes and sixes. […] And so Detroit in that way is a map of all of those disparate intentions over the years.”

In disbelief. The NYT named Born in Flames one of 100 Notable Books of 2025

Experimenting with Error: Dan Charnas and I talk about Dilla Time, Detroit, and black geographies. Thank you @antipodeonline.bsky.social for publishing our conversation! antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...

Author Interview — “Experimenting with Error” — @demonicgrounds.bsky.social speaks with @dancharnas.bsky.social about his book, “Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm” antipodeonline.org/2025/11/25/c...

I love Jimmy Cliff. “Many Rivers to Cross” is the most beautiful song ever written.

Come to the JHI next year!

Putting @demonicgrounds.bsky.social in conversation with KRS-One has been so generative. So thankful for her insights.

as a fan of drinking beer in small glasses i appreciate it when a restaurant or bar serves 8 or 10 ounce drafts in addition to the usual pint

My comrade Ola's Free Black Women Library is featured: www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpD...

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful. As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."

Perfect. Frankenstein by @realgdt.bsky.social 1. the reinterpretation of Shelley is urgent, smart AF 2. the decisions hoisted on the monster are stunning 3. the attachments to modernity (empire and its racial-economic trappings) are quiet and cutting 4. Victor. Elizabeth. 5. setting, lighting. ✌🏾💕

I’m still cheering for the Jays—they are an incredible team—and I don’t really like the Dodgers lol