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THE WOLF AND HIS KING, a retelling of Bisclavret focused on yearning, chronic illness feelings, and the mortifying ordeal of being known, comes out tomorrow! Which is to say, in about an hour! Or in two months if you live in North America, sorry.
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finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
THE WOLF AND HIS KING, a retelling of Bisclavret focused on yearning, chronic illness feelings, and the mortifying ordeal of being known, comes out tomorrow! Which is to say, in about an hour! Or in two months if you live in North America, sorry.
finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
If anyone is curious about any specific essay, message me and I can send you a pdf :)
A List of Essays by Aiyyana Maracle
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
by @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social (Jun. 2025)
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
by @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social (Jun. 2025)
A List of Essays by Aiyyana Maracle
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
landbodymind.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
If anyone is curious about any specific essay, message me and I can send you a pdf :)
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The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of anti-trans limitations | APTN News
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Assembly of First Nations have concerns over Alberta’s use of the notwithstanding clause to “limit the rights of two-spirit and trans youth” in the province.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
The clause allows Alberta to override parts of the charter of rights for up to five years.
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Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
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One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week.
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Racial Fictions
Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized acr...
www.versobooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week.
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
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just attended ngarino ellis’s keynote on māori responses to c18 colonial representations of indigenous peoples and now need to buy this book. perhaps you do too? (or recommend to your library!)
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Toi Te Mana
A landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians—from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists.He toi whakairo, he mana tangata. Through artistic excellence...
press.uchicago.edu
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
just attended ngarino ellis’s keynote on māori responses to c18 colonial representations of indigenous peoples and now need to buy this book. perhaps you do too? (or recommend to your library!)
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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being a writer and shilling for corporate publishing is like working at mcdonalds and praying to the hamburgler
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
being a writer and shilling for corporate publishing is like working at mcdonalds and praying to the hamburgler
I have emerging Theories about how people talk about "transmasc invisibility" today and it is that this is not transhistorically true, bc if you look at the Middle Ages there were SO many stories about "passing women" that tho generally transphobic, could have provided a model for transmasculinity
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I have emerging Theories about how people talk about "transmasc invisibility" today and it is that this is not transhistorically true, bc if you look at the Middle Ages there were SO many stories about "passing women" that tho generally transphobic, could have provided a model for transmasculinity
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
lol someone literally just walked down the hallway in this campus building with a suitcase, presumably because they are leaving right after class. (the fact that I'm commenting on this is funny because I also am planning to leave right after class, but I managed to stuff everything in my backpack)
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
lol someone literally just walked down the hallway in this campus building with a suitcase, presumably because they are leaving right after class. (the fact that I'm commenting on this is funny because I also am planning to leave right after class, but I managed to stuff everything in my backpack)
true but, as you point out below, the pronouns here are kinda iffy, as is "one of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman" ermmmmm. Personally I like to think of him as an early "problematic white transmasc" prototype (yes there was a trans conquistador.......)
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
true but, as you point out below, the pronouns here are kinda iffy, as is "one of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman" ermmmmm. Personally I like to think of him as an early "problematic white transmasc" prototype (yes there was a trans conquistador.......)
I told my Ojibwe language students, if they go home for the break and their family asks if they actually learned anything in Ojibwe, they should recite their introductions because it will be so impressive. We're way beyond "My name is Kai my clan is eagle I'm from Green Bay" now. Past tense stuff!
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I told my Ojibwe language students, if they go home for the break and their family asks if they actually learned anything in Ojibwe, they should recite their introductions because it will be so impressive. We're way beyond "My name is Kai my clan is eagle I'm from Green Bay" now. Past tense stuff!
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
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As part of the dismantling of the Department of Education, the Trump admin moved key programs serving Native students from the Ed Dept to the Department of the Interior. Tribes were not aware of the move. ictnews.org/news/departm...
Department of Education hands off key programs without consulting tribes as required - ICT
UPDATED: Tribes and advocacy organizations are working to understand changes that could have broad impact across Indian Country
ictnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
As part of the dismantling of the Department of Education, the Trump admin moved key programs serving Native students from the Ed Dept to the Department of the Interior. Tribes were not aware of the move. ictnews.org/news/departm...
I mean haven’t we already had at least one case where ICE detained someone on a valid visa and then retroactively revoked it? Am I wrong, I feel like that has happened already
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I mean haven’t we already had at least one case where ICE detained someone on a valid visa and then retroactively revoked it? Am I wrong, I feel like that has happened already
Was Vahid Abedini detained on a DOMESTIC flight??? Maybe it’s naive of me that feels way worse somehow, like surely visa status should not even be looked at for that, it makes it seem very targeted. So basically any non-US citizen is potentially not safe flying in the US, at least in theory
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Was Vahid Abedini detained on a DOMESTIC flight??? Maybe it’s naive of me that feels way worse somehow, like surely visa status should not even be looked at for that, it makes it seem very targeted. So basically any non-US citizen is potentially not safe flying in the US, at least in theory
Does anyone have general or specific advice for teaching classes on topics relating to minoritized peoples where the class is overwhelmingly going to be students who are NOT from that group? This is the third time I’m gonna teach a Queer Indigenous Studies class and I’m STILL struggling with this
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Does anyone have general or specific advice for teaching classes on topics relating to minoritized peoples where the class is overwhelmingly going to be students who are NOT from that group? This is the third time I’m gonna teach a Queer Indigenous Studies class and I’m STILL struggling with this
you ever hear a gay person cover a love song, and later you learn it’s actually by a straight person, but you’re just like “no actually this is a gay song now”
?
?
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
you ever hear a gay person cover a love song, and later you learn it’s actually by a straight person, but you’re just like “no actually this is a gay song now”
?
?
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Osage dancer and prima ballerina Maria Tallchief was photographed by renown photographer Milton H. Greene (1922-1985) in a dance studio in New York in 1952. Greene, probably best known for his series of photographs of Marilyn Monroe, as well as his features on Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Audrey 1/2
August 29, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Osage dancer and prima ballerina Maria Tallchief was photographed by renown photographer Milton H. Greene (1922-1985) in a dance studio in New York in 1952. Greene, probably best known for his series of photographs of Marilyn Monroe, as well as his features on Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Audrey 1/2
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NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
journalpanorama.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
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In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
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For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In the US, Catholic sisters return Wisconsin land to Ojibwe tribe in a historic first. The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have transferred a lakefront property to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for the same $30,000 they paid in 1966.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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The interesting thing about my current sort of in progress project about historical gay transmasc cultural representations is that I’ve noticed two patterns in the stuff written by non-transmascs: 1) the return to hetero domesticity, and 2) what I’m tentatively calling “study buddies and tragedy”
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The interesting thing about my current sort of in progress project about historical gay transmasc cultural representations is that I’ve noticed two patterns in the stuff written by non-transmascs: 1) the return to hetero domesticity, and 2) what I’m tentatively calling “study buddies and tragedy”
does anyone have any highly-recommended book titles about the history of sexology / concepts of queerness/transness from the late 1800s to early 1900s? I've got Hirschfeld, Ellis, and Krafft-Ebing all downloaded but they're each like 500 pages and I'd like a secondary source guide
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
does anyone have any highly-recommended book titles about the history of sexology / concepts of queerness/transness from the late 1800s to early 1900s? I've got Hirschfeld, Ellis, and Krafft-Ebing all downloaded but they're each like 500 pages and I'd like a secondary source guide
I love how people say oups in french. way better spelling than oops
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I love how people say oups in french. way better spelling than oops
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Excellent journalism highlighting how the State of Alaska is failing rural—and predominantly Alaska Native—students.
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
As Alaska ignores requests to fund school repairs, its Indigenous children suffer most because rural schools serve predominantly Alaska Native students — a population that was long forced to attend separate and unequal schools.
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primari...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Excellent journalism highlighting how the State of Alaska is failing rural—and predominantly Alaska Native—students.
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”
“over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across AK crumbling”