after the music festival is before the mini poetry festival

Devendra Banhart at Le Guess Who tomight

i bought expensive plums in the Steiner-y organic veg shop and they taste of NOTHING, confirming my suspicions and antipathy

no surprises here: a Berlin court has confirmed that the "political activity ban" on Ghassan Abu-Sittah 1,5years ago was against the law – I remember being on a train to Berlin when those news broke; infuriating like almost every encounter with the city in the last two years

day 2 curls ready for festival day 2 (sorry, I don’t have insta anymore)

If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!

Just learned that the interviewer here is the wonderful Bhakti Shringarpure of @radicalbooks.bsky.social, full interview here www.warscapes.com/conversation...

Quick new blog post on the work on the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis, for which you can also read Maryam Aras' acceptance speech now - see next post! intervention.sites.uu.nl/2025/11/04/r... (1/3)

prepping my first lecture for the Migration and Diaspora course next week and honestly cannot wait to teach my new syllabus

“I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon”

prepping my first lecture for the Migration and Diaspora course next week and honestly cannot wait to teach my new syllabus

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

one more sleep until the very best music festival - will i see any mutuals there? (counting on @jennyleetsch.bsky.social 🫡) leguesswho.com/lineup-explore

dm me für das PDF ❤️🦕🌬️

"du bläst ihn von emiratischen Drohnen und Maschinengewehren der Rapid-Support-Milizen in Südsudan. Du bläst auf die Ruinen von Rafah, und der Staub fliegt meterhoch, du kannst gar nichts erkennen vor lauter Staub." (3/3)

"Du bläst [den Staub] von amerikanischen Stahlinseln im Persischen Golf als Halteplatz für ihre Flugzeuge, du bläst ihn von deutschen Bomben, Handfeuerwaffen und Spezialpanzern auf ihrem Weg nach Gaza City und Khan Younis," (2/3) www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergn...

Quick new blog post on the work on the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis, for which you can also read Maryam Aras' acceptance speech now - see next post! intervention.sites.uu.nl/2025/11/04/r... (1/3)

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

I read this Darwish poem for the first time during my own BA and have these lines stuck in my head often: ’"I have a place on the ship" "I have a share in life" "And as for me, I must catch the subway I am late for memories and for the saxophone lesson, and my night is short"‘

I read this Darwish poem for the first time during my own BA and have these lines stuck in my head often: ’"I have a place on the ship" "I have a share in life" "And as for me, I must catch the subway I am late for memories and for the saxophone lesson, and my night is short"‘

Young poet Batool Abu Akleen has been evacuated from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and has arrived in Paris on 28 October. Please contribute to this fund for her monthly scholarship in France - every small donation helps: chuffed.org/project/1431...

Wah it’s arrived and I’m actually so excited for teaching with a proper old-school course reader for the first time

Young poet Batool Abu Akleen has been evacuated from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and has arrived in Paris on 28 October. Please contribute to this fund for her monthly scholarship in France - every small donation helps: chuffed.org/project/1431...

According to German politicians and journalists both German and British national media are secretly run by Hamas

"Since when did we become Big Tech's free PR department?" I'm really pleased to see an article like this pushing back on the uncritical adoption of (gen)AI by our universities. It hits all the major concerns.

amazing to see German news outlets claim that no one knew Catherine Connolly before the keepy-uppies video - please can we have 1 (one) proper journalist

let’s check this out then

How devastating for Derry and communities across the North who have not received justice. And yet it is, as suggested here, a moment of pride for those who refused to abandon the pursuit of justice. Now is a time to centre their voices first and foremost. www.derryjournal.com/news/courts/...

A British soldier approaches From Liadan Ní Chuinn's "Daisy Hill"

This is how you blurb

En route to Tipperary tomorrow, ahead of my time as per www.rte.ie/lifestyle/tr...

Utrecht University also on the Florida blacklist lol

Ordered @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social’s freshly published Close Reading for the 21st Century to our library and pre-ordered next issue of @thepigsback.bsky.social (with an essay by Sophie Corser!!) - great day for anticipatory reading joy www.thepigsback.ie/shop/p/issue...

We both felt motivated to understand close reading better, to make the clearest, strongest, case we could for it, and to do it together every step of the way. It's been a huge gift to think with Johanna in the making of this book, which we now offer to the world. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This is very good, and a genuinely useful explanation of aspects of book manufacturing that regularly annoy me, but which I hadn't linked together as having a common cause.

“Just tell me where you are, Habibi. I will come and get you.” If you read one thing today, read this by @abunour.bsky.social

Honoured to have my article published in @irishtimes.com today. A piece of me and Gaza and Nour — on paper. ❤️ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Good on Nora Haddada for talking about the genocide in Gaza and calling out the German literary scene over its silence at the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair evangelische-zeitung.de/wutrede-bei-...

I’m going to be writing about police violence against #Palestine demos in #Berlin for the LRB. I’m keen to speak to anyone who has been effected, or who has other insight or expertise they wish to share (lawyers, court observers, etc)

i am overinvested in the postal service as a Basic Social Good to the extent that any indication of a collapsing postal service puts me in a pit of despair

love to see all the variations of muppet comrades

So so so wish I could be in Berlin for the Kurt-Tucholsky-Preis ceremony for Maryam Aras today. All the more glad that @jeannetteoho.bsky.social will be there to present our jury reasoning and @mahaelhissy.bsky.social will hold a laudation.

redo w/correct link. pls share again! ‼️‼️‼️Sameer Project urgently needs our action. Can we do a $75/mattress-for-babies fundraiser today? The situation: From Sameer Project on on X: “The pediatric department at Nasser Hospital requested our help!! Support: chuffed.org/project/1368...

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

"Asked what freedom felt like, [Alaa] said: “It is overwhelming. It is also comfortable and natural, and I am immediately fitting in with them, including witnessing three family fights in two days. The usual stuff." Don't miss this Guardian interview: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anyway, read @miayou.bsky.social's poem "The Love Song of My Hologram" brainwashfestival.nl/en/poem-by-m...

Maria Corina Machado, Nobel Peace Prize Winner sees her politics aligned with Milei's (see e.g. www.clarin.com/mundo/maria-.... She's signatory of the Charta of Madrid -created by the think tank of Spain's right wing party Vox, whose leader introduced it to Trump. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_...

Huge librarian appreciation week over here - taking care of, vocally supporting, and chasing up every single one of my purchase requests for this course

It's real & it's here. I'm real & I'm here. There were times during the writing where I didn't think that those sentences could simultaneously be true. So yes I am grinning like a dork. Pre-order BAD LANGUAGE from Peninsula Press. It's not secondhand yet... 👇🏻 peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...