Book Review Forum — “Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings” by Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán — with contributions from @jamiepeck.bsky.social Danielle Purifoy @geogjosh.bsky.social Natasha Howard antipodeonline.org/2026/06/08/b... @nyupress.bsky.social

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Inspiring! After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application Ahead of raucous planning meeting, chants of “fuck AI” filled Hamilton’s council chambers. City staff said 1,688 people submitted comments, a record. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking Muna Dahir & Katherine McKittrick (no paywall) in GeoHumanities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One of our co-authors, Dr. Samantha King, recently joined TVO for a conversation on GLP-1s, social media nutrition trends, and protein and fibre maxxing. Watch the interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzF2... @dukepress.bsky.social @therundowntvo.bsky.social #protein #fibre #socialmediatrends

The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking Muna Dahir & Katherine McKittrick (no paywall) in GeoHumanities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

It’s cliche to say it but good lord she is underappreciated

Toni Morrison was unique. Commercially successful and earned lots of money and prestigious honors. Respected by writers, academics, and activists. Sold tons of books while refusing to be optimistic or easy. And despite the attention, kept her privacy by telling the same stories in interviews. Goals!

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I felt differently after reading Sylvia Wynter. It took a few years to wrap my head around her ideas, yes, but once I caught a glimmer of her project and voice, everything shifted in me, and grew from there—including how I inhabit and live with and move through academic worlds.

if I could be any voice—just me, floating around as a sonic vibe—I’d be Etta James’ voice.

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this looks like a terrific gathering! ✌🏾📚

Dr. Katherine McKittrick dropped by the Stuart Hall Library 🖤 We're proud to hold her book Trick Not Telos, which is a limited-edition handmade box set containing five essays by McKittrick, in English and French & housed in its own booklet. We are open Tuesdays to Fridays, 10am to 5pm. 📚

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If you are based in Southern Africa and you wish to order a copy of our new issue "Fifty Years After Soweto" (May–June 2026), please note: - Print copies have free shipping! - Digital copies are free! ORDER HERE: thefunambulist.net/shop/65-afte...

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"Performing Punctuation is a transdisciplinary collaboration that challenges the colonial legacy embedded in the English language’s use of punctuation... The 📙 combines essays, performances, + experimental texts that converse across disciplines, creating space to rethink how language functions..."

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after prince passed over I had this custom made. I’ve worn it almost every day for almost ten years…(1)

💥 Our new issue "Fifty Years After Soweto" (May–June 2026) is going to be out in almost two weeks from now! June 1976–2026: An anniversary issue on South(ern) African past, present, and future politics Cover photo by Peter Magubane. Preorder now! thefunambulist.net/shop/65-afte...

Dear xxx. I don’t want anyone to curate my books and ideas, generate a wider audience, world-make my scholarship, share the urgency and harm, circulate me, omg lol. Leave me alone!

The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms. This issue is now available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social; 🔗 link: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

I know our names basically sound the same, but I could never have imagined this. Born in Flames has won the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Award in Nonfiction. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more honored. Til housing stability is not a luxury. @wwnorton.com

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Good morning! I got an alert that my new book is 50% off right now at this site… All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) a.co/d/0bFsKbjj

With a forward by Simone Browne and an afterword by Sylvia Wynter. Demonic Grounds is 20 and still twirling.

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in 2018 i published an essay with npr music about kanye and gospel music. but also about the problem of celebrity and the refusal to reckon with empire. sadly, every single move he’s made since this essay has only intensified its truth. www.npr.org/2019/10/23/7...

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Four wonderful titles out today! -the "achingly generous" Ghosts of Fourth Street by @lhertzel.bsky.social -Katherine McKittrick x2: the 20th anniv. ed. of DEMONIC GROUNDS & the collection Heartbreak and Other Geographies (co-ed: @camillahawth.bsky.social ) -Racializing the Ummah by Rhea Rahman

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So happy to share my book was chosen for the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology by CAPE specialty group! AwA'ahdah! See the other award winners here: capeaag.wordpress.com/cape-awards/

yesterday, too.

Hope you enjoy, rob! Out everywhere April 7. And with new intro/afters by Michael Nardone (Livingstone) and Katherine McKittrick (She Tries).

awaiting small one’s first game in this weekend’s ringette tournament; did you know that Invisible Publishing just re-issued two poetry titles by m. nourbeSe philip? // @invisibooks.bsky.social

"This also brings to mind @demonicgrounds.bsky.social + Nasrin Himada’s ongoing 'Sylvia Wynter Through + W/ Palestine' wrkshp + their urgent insistence on rdg Black + 🇵🇸 thought [in] relation, which [opens up] distinct ways of thinking abt nation + statehood[, of discerning] btw 'land' + 'soil'..."

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Last touches on a report for Progress in Human Geography. Any lit in EconGeo you want to see featured? Condition: work needs to exhibit a deeper understanding of market/monopoly/monopsony/infrastructural power, mono-/oligipolistic competition, Bigness and be rooted primarily in Geography. #geosky

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I'm also reflecting on the fact that I've been attending the AAGs and publishing in geography for over two decades. I was a young editorial assistant when I worked on DEMONIC GROUNDS, and it blew my mind. One of those books that knocks your thinking into a totally new orbit.