Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

this Tylenol business uncovers the depths of misogyny. I mean these people despise women and mothers and mothering and are finding ways to destroy their kids by implying autism is a disease (impure, passed on) and by and shoring up eugenic thinking. brainless violence.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Antipode volume 57, number 5 -- our September 2025 issue -- out now, including a seven-article Symposium, "A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste" antipodeonline.org/2025/09/08/v...

One of our most anticipated September books is feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty's "Insurgent Visions," which explores methods of anticapitalist resistance to radically transform everyday life. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

Amazing fellowship opportunity for Canadian Black women (+) writers (including art critics) who are OVER 40. Love it. Pass along!

writing residency. kingston. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1. If “the black Atlantic” is in your book title, I expect citations of the book, The Black Atlantic.

congratulations @benchansfield.bsky.social on the publication of Born in Flames! thank you for this brilliant study! I’ll be teaching Born in Flames this winter in my black geographies seminar ✌🏾!

writing residency. kingston. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

writing residency. kingston. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

smile in kingston agnes.queensu.ca/exhibition/a...

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During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic. 

I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:

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out with nourbeSe…

“Landlords hired kids—‘torches,’ in industry argot—to see that their properties suffered untimely accidents. With unemployment high, a torch was easy to find.” Dan Piepenbring on Born in Flames, by Bench Ansfield.

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Removal of a hornet's nest.

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I wrote a tribute to Dr. Jonathan Sterne, who passed away this March way too young, in Sounding Out! — a venue he’d published in, and which felt right for it. I owe him a deep debt intellectually and personally, and he was frankly a great person. soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...

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Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here: www.instagram.com/p/DL-tbSjyZH...

The new foreword and the introduction of my revised and expanded edition of Policing Black Lives with Duke University Press and Fernwood has been published on the Duke website bit.ly/3Tv16oQ now available for pre-order. Discount code in the US and worldwide is E26MYNRD

Finally got to listen to @demonicgrounds.bsky.social on @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social and it was great. Highly recommended. Also a good reminder that it’s time for me to re-read “The Bluest Eye” (and “Song of Solomon” too).

Marronage as a Guide to Police Abolition On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

Didn't realize this went online last month, but I had the pleasure of reviewing a new 2CD set compiling her first two albums + some other tracks. As a Twin Peaks/Lynch obsessive, it was a real dreamy delight to spend so much time with her music. www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/jule...

I am on here… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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there is no way you can track or grasp or even explain the funk of Sly Stone that funk is far too exquisite—it cannot be named, told.

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This forthcoming show at the @carnegieart.bsky.social, curated by the always-🌟 David Hartt, looks fantastic. It's not just about photography: it's about the whole apparatus of photojournalism and its relation to self-representation + civil rights

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youtu.be/x--N03NO130?... Only Monsters Play God…

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Smile is almost over and wow I am full of appreciation and I am also a little sad. nourbeSe philip's poem, “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty” has unravelled into so many stunning conversations and ideas. Come through to our closing panel at Gallery 44 on Thursday if you have time! ⤵️

incredible.

happy birthday to the brilliant and beautiful and kind Sylvia Wynter!

Wynter Reading Group (2)! What a conversation! And nourbeSe dropped in!

If you are in Toronto come through for the closing conversation with moi, Cristian Ordóñez, and Nasrin Himada, moderated by Aaliyah Strachan. The dialogue reflects on the processes and experimentation that shaped A Smile Split by the Stars.‍ May 22, 6.30 start! ✌🏾❤️ www.gallery44.org/events/panel...

If you are in Toronto come through for the closing conversation with moi, Cristian Ordóñez, and Nasrin Himada, moderated by Aaliyah Strachan. The dialogue reflects on the processes and experimentation that shaped A Smile Split by the Stars.‍ May 22, 6.30 start! ✌🏾❤️ www.gallery44.org/events/panel...

Log on! Sudan Solidarity Collective launched a fundraising workshop series called Workshops4Sudan. Ruth Wilson Gilmore will be giving the next Workshop on Monday, 5 May at 12 noon (EDT) entitled “the soviets and abolition.” www.sudansolidarity.com/events/the-s...

The Wynter reading group today! I’m floating…!

one of the greatest letterman performances AND one of the great (greatest?) rock songs of the 2000s youtu.be/SlHrCg67axw?...

over the next three weeks, and with about 50 folks are collectively reading and discussing Sylvia Wynter’s very long essay, “We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture.”

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a few details of A Smile Split by the Stars: An Experiment by Katherine McKittrick at Gallery 44 🔡 📖 👏👏