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next book: Solidarity With Children @HaymarketBooks | other books: Comedy Against Work @CommonNotions & Fag/Hag @rosa_collective | editor @blindfieldjourn
Just texted 3 separate group chats about this (I’m grading) joblo.com/mephisto-makeo…
No, you don’t have to work with abusers for the sake of political “unity.”
Saidiya Hartman on critique and history: "(…) the work of feminist criticism is precisely the interrogation and deconstruction of this [womanhood’s] normativity, rather than the determination of who is or is not a woman in accordance with this measure."
What if Tar had a Babygirl
The trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s ‘AFTER THE HUNT’ starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri. In theaters October.
We’re still boycotting The New York Times in case you forgot
"Pop music is a way of knowing something, something that was being busily subtracted from knowledge at just that time. Pop takes part in the subtraction, but can't help itself from preserving what it has removed" -- Joshua Clover
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
“… their heads faced the same directions as ours as they went about their lives. They were seeing what the rest of us saw and looking beyond it, locking eyes with only the people in whom they recognized themselves.” Mary Turfah in @Parapraxis_Mag parapraxismagazine.com/articles/compl…
Claiming the politics of a superhero franchise movie are revolutionary < Locating within a superhero franchise movie political contradictions that have revolutionary impulses
“The tradeoff for the tech overlords’ allies in the MAGA movement, many of whom rely on the government services targeted by DOGE, seems clear: more circuses, less cake.” @profitratedown 🔥 brooklynrail.org/2025/07/field-…
Solidarity with THUGS and SLIMEBALLS everywhere
More to say about this soon (hopefully in essay form!) but if you think AI writing is labor-saving, or polished, or a useful metric of intellectual or aesthetic judgment, you are a fucking idiot and you should give your job to one of the thousands of adjuncts who knows better
CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-s…
Perhaps this is controversial but I think if you write about the politics of collective care your writing should be based in an actual practice of collective caretaking.