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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 3h

UNC has been the place to watch for years. Look what these fuckers have done.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

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UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 1d

Come early and get in the standby line for entry if you missed the window to register!

Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 19d

NYC! Members of Palestine's premiere dance troupe, El-Funoun, will be in town Oct 9–13.

Register today for their presentation Tawasol – "a living archive of memory, identity, and the enduring spirit of dabke" – and/or a dabke workshop

Details ⤵️
www.amplifypalestine.org/el-funoun-2025

El-Funoun in NYC 2025 — Amplify Palestine

Learn about dabke and cultural resistance from members of Palestine's premiere dabke troupe, El-Funoun.

www.amplifypalestine.org

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2d

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 1d

School of Environmental Destruction Sciences

97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 1d

UNC announced Thursday it will combine the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society into a new entity focused on information technologies such as generative AI.

UNC Combining Library Science, Data Science Schools Into New Entity - Chapelboro.com

The two schools will be combined into a new entity focused on information technologies such as generative AI.

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 2d

Had *the* @alexispauline.bsky.social deliver a zoom oracle for my School in early pandemic days—for a meager honorarium. That memory is such a blessing!

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 3d

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 3d

This looks amazing!

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Editors' Note on the Now
Introduction
Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud
Part 1: How We Think About Poems
1. A Conversation on Dinétics
Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets
2. Post-Craft
Michael Leong
3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry
Erin Kappeler
4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line:
The Problem of Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical
Poetics in Introductory Courses
Caroline Gelmi
6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels
Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher
7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza
Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung

8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee
9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction
William Fogarty
10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar
Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric
11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry
Chris Chan
12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria
Anzaldúa's New Mestiza
Leah Huizar
13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age
Lukas Moe
14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom
Anastasia Nikolis
Part 2: What We Do With Poems
15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom
Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom
Philippa Chun
17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age
Kenneth Sherwood
18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Jess A. Goldberg
19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past
Sarah Nance
20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry
Classroom
Rachel B. Griffis
21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU
Candis Pizzetta
22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry
23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as
Literary Analysis
Lizzy LeRud
24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry
Teaching and Learning with The South African
Poetry Project
Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri

25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting
Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom
Ronnie K. Stephens
26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a
Site of Poetic Production and Expressive
Sovereignty
Joe Lockard
Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning
27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and
Conversation
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader
28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project
James Innis McDougall
29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic
Patterns and Project-Based Reading
Nick Sturm
30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes
31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy:
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A.
Kinnahan
List of Contributors

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 6d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

This young person has gotten multiple warnings from state cops for defiantly moving into the street while most of the crowd has been pushed into “first amendment zones” on the sidewalk. Someone is playing “Springtime for Hitler” through a loudspeaker.

A protester holds a wooden shield in the street with the word “resist” spray painted on it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

On the ground at Broadview. One arrest and state police with batons are pushing people out of the street.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 6d

Influencers Are Being Paid $7K Per Post to Boost Pro-Israel Social Media Content

“We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 7d

“more separation between her and Biden on Gaza” is such bullshit. If the cop actually cared, she’d be using her status to defend protesters.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.

Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, CBS News has learned.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8
and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 7d

Reminds me that there is also a category of men who have sex with men (thanks public health colleagues!). As I understand it, the practice isn’t exactly gay, but is certainly a bit queer, though often under duress. Like in a frozen expedition!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

A DHS leader confers with a state of IL cop at a protest.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 8d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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