'Pagan Threat', by the author of 'Woke Jesus' (Foreword by Charlie Kirk) Now that is some truly cursed cover-blurb

🔔☎️ RING RING ☎️🔔 Hello? … Slow down, what's that? … Oh, a new Carantes newsletter has been posted and sent out? … And you can access it on our website linked below? Well now that's a reason to be excited! … Bye, love you too! carantes.org/2025/09/22/s...

We've already been putting some things in place, but how are other formerly no-risk transatlantic anti-fascist groups helping safeguard US members in the Current Climate? Useful to pool resources/take tips from those with more experience (obviously contactable elsewhere than publicly/on here!)

Re: the rapture, one of the best things I ever found in an archive was a cult secretary's letter to members apologising for the non-apocalypse, and promising to do the calculations again.

Imagine being a wannabe authoritarian who can't get rid of *Jimmy Kimmel*

Just heard a podcaster describe Robert Owen as an "English Communist" and want to challenge them to a duel or something

I did feel for a translator at our conference last week when the already challenging material of a Welsh-lang lecture on the impossibility of translating Somali poetry into Welsh ended with extended passages of Walter Benjamin in the original German

V pleasing to see my book pop up in some new places on Library Hub after my conference launch last week. But I want more!! Put it on your reading lists, *there's still time*

JOIN ME in writing your paper proposal on the last possible day of the final deadline extension Not like I have a book to promote there or anything

Anyway, fuck these racist and xenophobic fascists. I’m proud to be an immigrant, coming from a lineage of immigrants over the past 50 years from China and Norway and Ireland. Fuck borders. Fuck visas. Immigration made me who I am. Fuck you.

It's the 3 year anniversary of Carantes! 'But Cassandra', you say, 'you're so smart and so pretty and so funny, but what IS Carantes??' Well, dear reader, firstly, thank you I really needed that, and secondly, allow me to explain: #celtic #antiracist #antifascist #medieval #academia

Be mazin to get this up to £300 by the end of the week 🩷

Or some dude in the 1790s. Or by the Romans 😉

Seriously, how are right-wing conspiracy theories about commie "Islamo-Marxists" currently centring on *the Fabians*, of all people?!

I think I'm about to have to cut this Angela Davis quote from a talk for space, and yet...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Two members of the Curious Travellers team will be launching books including Thomas Pennant at the Gorwelion Conference this week!

It's honestly funny that parts of the US right are attacking Oxford Uni because "the Oxford Union are radical leftists", when it's a) not part of the University, and b) the Union's been getting protested for inviting fascist speakers for literally decades

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Scotland at 'critical point' amid rise of the far right

It is good to know that Musk can push an Irish far right candidate hard on his pet social media network, and a whole country can just say absolutely not. Come on Brits, learn something.

Seeing folks say that the rise and normalisation of the alt-right in the UK is because of the US and while I think the UK’s fascists are taking a lot of inspiration by the US’s tactics and aesthetics, it would be really cool for you Brits to also own up to the fact that this shit is also homegrown.

You can now listen here to my BBC Wales radio interview from this morning (at about 43min 40) - exciting to be getting questions from people who've clearly read and thought about the book. Diolch am y cyfle! (@yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social)

So much of my work atm is trying to convince people Welsh national identity is always an up-for-grabs ideological battleground, but when I see Musk posting the Red Dragon all the time I still feel like Cŵn Annwn should eat him any second now

Keir Starmer rushing out an immediate tweet bemoaning the death of a US fascist whose UK organization was a failure, but posting nothing about the UK fascist march at which the site he's posting on's owner called for a racist revolution.

I'll be on Vaughan Roderick's 'Sunday Supplement' this Sunday (September 14th), talking about my new book on Welsh Revivalism in the British Empire - gwrandewch, da chwi!

Initially I still think this was the correct take, but every single UK media institution, Guardian included, has made a whitewashed martyred Charlie fucking Kirk our problem now. Thanks all, great job.

I do not want to live in a reality where I have to think through the argument "maybe the anti-fascist lyrics on the bullet casing were, in fact, ironic fascism"

61 y cant, Duw mowr

People more expert in the US Reconstruction Era than me: If Jefferson Davis made this remark about not being a (Scottish) "clansman", to laughter, in Memphis TN in 1875, how likely is it that it's a joke about not being a Klansman?

Major UK newspapers putting a demonstrably unfounded story about a "trans rights" assassination on their front pages is the real hard 1930s shit

With @carantes.bsky.social I've organised a panel at the @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social 40th Anniversary conference, on Celtic Studies and the Contemporary Far-Right. Papers on discourse analysis of far-right Celticism, reading transphobia in medieval Welsh poetry, and Celtic-American fascism.

Sigh. When you're writing a paper on how "Celtic Heritage" discourse works within the American far-right, and you suddenly realise his name's "Kirk"

Mae'n gyfrol arloesol! (diffiniad 'a')

Charlie Kirk and his organization were directly responsible for colleagues going into hiding because of harassment. I personally received death threats, as well as bullshit anonymous complaints to my university, because I'm on their list.

I'll be on Vaughan Roderick's 'Sunday Supplement' this Sunday (September 14th), talking about my new book on Welsh Revivalism in the British Empire - gwrandewch, da chwi!

Very excited and grateful to have been given the chance to present at the ‘Journeys of Curiosity’ symposium, where I’ll be chatting a bit about curiosity, the sublime, and imperial anxieties in Romantic travel accounts of the Himalayas. Really looking forward to hearing all the other papers as well!

I do worry that in over-focusing here on the more technicolour quality of current American fascism, we help make Reform look like normal boring suit-wearers in comparison.

Is this a joke? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Let's try to balance the fact that the American far right has internet influence in Britain with the fact that the death of a podcaster in Utah is not actually our problem

The times, they are interesting

Oes 'na gyfieithiad safonol ar gyfer "settler colony/colonialism" eto? Wedi ei weld yn yr iaith fain yn Pedwar Gwynt yn ddiweddar

Curious Travellers are delighted to be partnering with the long-running Liverpool Travel Seminar to host an Early Career Symposium dedicated to ‘Journeys of Curiosity’ Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...

I'm not purely a downer on all Celtic revivalism, by the way, even if it sometimes seems so on here! But we're at the tail end of a period when "Celtic"-identified politics in the UK have got quite complacent re: their association with left-liberal devolutionary politics.

How D. W. Griffith, Welsh-American director of the Ku Klux Klan-reviving "Birth of a Nation", was presented/presented himself in 'Theatre Magazine' while working on the film in 1914

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

Impressive that literate nerds have managed to aggrandise themselves for almost the entirety of recorded culture by turning "nerd with books" into "wizard" in all the stories

Arthur Miller, the E. M. Forster of the 21st century

In a crowded field, "our President's laws" is definitely the creepiest bit of the video

Oes 'na unrhyw un yn gwerthu llyfrau llafar yn y Gymraeg dyddie 'ma? Tudalen wag yn unig sydd ar wefan Y Lolfa