andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
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Pinned
Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
@fordhampress.bsky.social
@fordhampress.bsky.social
Black men:
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Black men:
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
Floss every day
Go to the doctor
Get a colonoscopy
(It's me, I am Black men.)
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I think we can settle the Cardi B - Nicki Minaj beef once and for all
February 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I think we can settle the Cardi B - Nicki Minaj beef once and for all
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12: European Parliament priorities for gender equity pass overwhelmingly including resolutions containing language on "intersectionality" and "diversity" interpreted as referring to trans women as women.
See how your MEPs voted
epvotes.eu
February 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12: European Parliament priorities for gender equity pass overwhelmingly including resolutions containing language on "intersectionality" and "diversity" interpreted as referring to trans women as women.
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This is such a great read and left me eager to follow the rest of Karen’s story. It has history, colonialism, family ties, personal choices, being torn between two places and more.
NEW: This was the last essay I was supposed to publish at the Washington Post. But they fired me.
I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.
If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
I'm publishing it anyway-- about my family's connection to a sword the British looted from Ghana in 1874.
If youve ever wondered why I love swords, here's why.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
The "Return" of the Golden Sword
My grandfather guarded it. The British stole it. I'm named after it—and I'm going to fight for it.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
This is such a great read and left me eager to follow the rest of Karen’s story. It has history, colonialism, family ties, personal choices, being torn between two places and more.
I haven't been a co-editor of Lateral for over a year (maybe two). They are the hardest-working editors and readers out here, and I am grateful to everyone who has read for this journal. Peer review takes a long time. Academics perform work. All work produces knowledge. Fuck AI.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I haven't been a co-editor of Lateral for over a year (maybe two). They are the hardest-working editors and readers out here, and I am grateful to everyone who has read for this journal. Peer review takes a long time. Academics perform work. All work produces knowledge. Fuck AI.
Another excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on surveillance & discipline in the rodeo created & run by people incarcerated at Angola prison csalateral.org/issue/14-2/s...
Daniella Mascarenhas, "Spectacle, Surveillance, and Discipline: Synopticism at the Angola Prison Rodeo" - Lateral
The Angola Prison Rodeo is a distinctive penal spectacle that challenges conventional understandings of incarceration, visibility, and institutional legitimacy. While modern punishment typically conce...
csalateral.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Another excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on surveillance & discipline in the rodeo created & run by people incarcerated at Angola prison csalateral.org/issue/14-2/s...
An excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on South Asian men in comedy, media, and masculinity
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
Reddi & Foster, "Generationality, Desirability, and Redemption: How Aziz Ansari and Hasan Minhaj Articulate New Desi Masculinities in Stand-Up Comedy" - Lateral
Desi creators in US culture continue to work within—and against—the white gaze, which divides them into sexless sidekicks or threatening terrorists. Two comedians who have defied these stereotypes and...
csalateral.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
An excellent article in the new issue of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association, on South Asian men in comedy, media, and masculinity
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
csalateral.org/issue/14-2/g...
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Land Back looks a lot of different ways, and until we fully dismantle colonialism, none of those ways are perfect. Yes, it can even look like purchasing land. But we don't get the luxury of waiting for perfection.
briarpatchmagazine.com/issues/view/...
briarpatchmagazine.com/issues/view/...
September/October 2020: The Land Back Issue
In our special 60-page Land Back issue, we address how to return land in so-called Canada to Indigenous Peoples, and encourage the flourishing of Indigenous laws, life, and governance on those territo...
briarpatchmagazine.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Land Back looks a lot of different ways, and until we fully dismantle colonialism, none of those ways are perfect. Yes, it can even look like purchasing land. But we don't get the luxury of waiting for perfection.
briarpatchmagazine.com/issues/view/...
briarpatchmagazine.com/issues/view/...
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Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.
For example
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For example
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12. And because elections are a "state function," and federal oversight is essentially unconstitutional....who's gonna stop them?
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 AM
12. And because elections are a "state function," and federal oversight is essentially unconstitutional....who's gonna stop them?
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
Now with the "SAVE America Act," you have to prove your citizenship.
According to who?
Which means it can always be challenged, regardless of your "papers."
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There is a guy at the Kellogg’s factory whose job is to take out all the big fun yogurty bits from the Special K boxes for shrinkflation. He is not in the union.
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 AM
There is a guy at the Kellogg’s factory whose job is to take out all the big fun yogurty bits from the Special K boxes for shrinkflation. He is not in the union.
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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VA Secretary Collins just told RM @repmarktakano.bsky.social that VA doesn't have enough clinical employees. Then why are there more postings on USA jobs right now for ICE & CBP than there are for VA doctors & nurses? Why did VA just wipe almost 30,000 vacant VHA positions off its books?
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
VA Secretary Collins just told RM @repmarktakano.bsky.social that VA doesn't have enough clinical employees. Then why are there more postings on USA jobs right now for ICE & CBP than there are for VA doctors & nurses? Why did VA just wipe almost 30,000 vacant VHA positions off its books?
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February 11, 2026 at 7:36 PM
That was the most exciting @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social game Alison is a LEGEND
February 12, 2026 at 6:05 AM
That was the most exciting @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social game Alison is a LEGEND
I saw this video on Dust a week or so ago, and then I noticed people talking about the book, although it came out last year. Is this the best marketing ever?
youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?...
youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?...
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 AM
I saw this video on Dust a week or so ago, and then I noticed people talking about the book, although it came out last year. Is this the best marketing ever?
youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?...
youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?...
My dog never learned any words this way, so I suppose he was eavesdropping on me for some other reason
youtu.be/cX9cf-9cNNM?...
youtu.be/cX9cf-9cNNM?...
Dogs can learn new words by eavesdropping on people, study finds
YouTube video by CBS News
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 AM
My dog never learned any words this way, so I suppose he was eavesdropping on me for some other reason
youtu.be/cX9cf-9cNNM?...
youtu.be/cX9cf-9cNNM?...
Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
@fordhampress.bsky.social
@fordhampress.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
@fordhampress.bsky.social
@fordhampress.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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today.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
today.
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Pretty much everything I have to say about our deranged modern situation is most concentrated in Dead Astronauts, although also running through all my work.
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Pretty much everything I have to say about our deranged modern situation is most concentrated in Dead Astronauts, although also running through all my work.
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Occurred to me that it might be useful for me, a person who teaches in a Digital Humanities program, to say that what happened to LCS is wrong and shameful and infuriating.
This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers?
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Literature and Cultural Studies program cut, replaced with Computational Cultural Studies - The Tartan
In Feb. 2024, Richard Scheines, Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, placed an administrative hold on admissions to Carnegie
the-tartan.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Occurred to me that it might be useful for me, a person who teaches in a Digital Humanities program, to say that what happened to LCS is wrong and shameful and infuriating.
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Disintermediate wherever possible. Gen AI will kill/has killed the GUI world of content-audience relationship. Queries are the “next frontier”. Have to resist chasing demonetization.
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Disintermediate wherever possible. Gen AI will kill/has killed the GUI world of content-audience relationship. Queries are the “next frontier”. Have to resist chasing demonetization.
Literally the aristocrats
I went to the same dentist for years in my 20s and 30s. I left because he made disparaging comments about women, and I called him on it, told him he was being “sexist.” I remember his assistants freezing as I said the word.
Funny story! He’s in the Epstein files!
Funny story! He’s in the Epstein files!
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Literally the aristocrats