Almost no food, water, or medicine has gotten into Gaza in 3 months. 5 members of @jvpchicago have been on hunger strike since 6/16 to demand that IL reps #StopArmingIsrael in order to #StopStarvingGaza. To join their demand, use this call tool: bit.ly/JVPBTB

The first meeting of Praiseworthy Reading Group will take place TODAY @5pm. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today is day two of the Jewish Voice for Peace hunger strike to stop starving Gaza and stop arming Israel. We are hosting a full day of People’s education on Federal Plaza in solidarity. Join us, Chicago!

The people are crying out for an unalienated relationship to the world, to work, to our animal brethren!! Unfortunately they are expressing that desire by destroying food safety systems rather than destroying capitalism, industrial agriculture, the wage...

The editorial board of Mid Theory Collective is sponsoring a seminar at ASAP/16 on our working conditions. Please share and consider submitting to it! asap16.exordo.com/submissions/...

My brilliant friend, @bakaari.bsky.social, on the differences between looking at and looking after (and mysterious parcels on her doorstep)

What a coup for the good folks at Mid Theory! I’ve been eagerly awaiting Martin’s book for quite some time, and this is a fantastic interview.

For MTC, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social writes about the aesthetics of the Stanley cups and the bodies that coalesce around it. mid-theory.com/2025/01/22/s...

a new @mid-theory.bsky.social mixtape for your friday afternoon! in this mixtape, we asked our december writers for their favorite winter comforts. i got a lot of good recs from these writers, and would love more 👀 what gets you through the winter? mid-theory.com/2025/01/10/m...

New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for featuring my essay in #ScholarSunday! (perfectly timed with the shirtless Luigi lookalike contests in Brazil)

The look-alike contest trend is a whole problem! So I wrote about it for @mid-theory.bsky.social (shepherded by remarkable editors @ Martha Henzy and @bakaari.bsky.social)

have you, like me, wondered what is going on with these celeb lookalike contests? my dear friend @marissafenley.bsky.social (who is truly a genius) has answers at @mid-theory.bsky.social about what these events signal about the American public, race, and power mid-theory.com/2024/12/20/t...

If the MLA is going to suppress our ability to discuss important issues and take collective action, we can withhold our dues & stop doing service for them. Join me in pledging to not renew your membership & to resign from any governance/leadership position you hold: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Over at the newsletter I just shared my super-sized 203rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Featuring + 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Please take a moment to repost our Truthout folks starter pack and help us grow our community on Bluesky!

job! A brief glance at Quincy’s webstore reveals titles like “The Anarchist Review of Books,” “Let’s Make Bread! A Comic Book Cookbook,” the latest issue of “Butt” magazine and “Bubbles,” described as an “Independent Fanzine About Comics And Manga.” blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/10/q...

NBCC member @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social interviewed Amber Jamilla Musser about her book "Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined" for @mid-theory.bsky.social:

My article "Ventriloquism's Faulty Mechanics" is out in TDR! Thanks so much for careful editing by Mariellen Sandford, Sara Brady, and Richard Schechner. doi.org/10.1017/S105...

thinking about the great writing i've seen on here in the past week, i made a little starter pack of some venues where i find great writing and some writers who excite me ✨ i'm sure i missed TONS of folks so plz hmu with suggestions/if you'd like to be added go.bsky.app/A3fPNaT

i LOVED reading this review by Matthew Beeber for @mid-theory.bsky.social "'Here lies' puts history to bed, whereas 'here lived' opens the space for history as an imaginative project. And as Andras insists, this is a project that we are all participating in." mid-theory.com/2024/12/05/h...

For MTC, Matthew Beeber reviews Joseph Andras’s FARAWAY THE SOUTHERN SKY, translated from the French by Simon Leser, a novelized account of Hồ Chí Minh years in Paris in the 1920s. "The challenges to piecing together Hồ’s story begin with his name." mid-theory.com/2024/12/05/h...

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

This is unhinged. truthout.org/articles/ill...

The University of Chicago, after hours of negotiation, promised our students a special Gaza Scholars at Risk Initiative. They have no delivered. How are students or faculty supposed to trust this administration? www.wbez.org/education/20...