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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 12d

THE MARATHON POET (@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list!

Åke Hodell’s poems, translated from the Swedish by Fia Backström, “unmask and satirize oppression’s many guises.” Order it here: uglyducklingpresse.org/product/the-...

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 2d

💛 L2 translators continue to remind the world that the concept of a mother tongue is, in fact, not so straightforward in large parts of the world, and that many of us translate into a language that is not our first!

Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · 17d

As someone who immigrated to Ohio as a disoriented teen with zero English, appearing in @kenyonreview.bsky.social years later, with one of my most personal translations means a little extra. Maybe I did learn to string English words together into meanings, after all. kenyonreview.org/piece/she-be...

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 6d

”Hela Bologna står stilla på ett sätt vi inte sett på 40 år”.

Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 6d

”La Repubblica rapporterar om demonstrationer i 100 städer, bland annat i Venedig, Rom, Milano, Livorno, Genua och Palermo. En miljon personer ska ha gått i demonstrationerna under dagen.”

Italiensk generalstrejk i solidaritet med Global Sumud Flotilla

En miljon människor har gått ut på gator runt om i Italien i solidaritet med Global Sumud Flotilla. Tågtrafik har blockerats. I Rom har en påvestaty iklätts pa

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 21d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24d

once again, respectfully tapping the "support local, worker-owned, billionaire-free independent media" sign

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24d

Karen Attiah writes here that the Washington Post fired her as a columnist (she was the last full-time Black opinion columnist, she points out) over a post that quoted Charlie Kirk: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

karenattiah.substack.com

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 29d

I can't wait for you to read Hanna's brilliant lesbian thriller--taut and autumnal where her ANTIQUITY is lush and summery, richly intertextual, about desire and belonging and also sort of obliquely about translation... BODY DOUBLE is out in April!

Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 29d

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We're excited to share that Hanna Johansson's new novel is coming this spring! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo 🖤

BODY DOUBLE hits bookstores on 4/7/26 — preorder now! books.catapult.co/books/body-d...

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 29d

big week for Marianna news--love this!

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 29d

tänkte samma: välkommen till usa

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 29d

🎉 The 2025 longlist for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Translated Literature has arrived! Congratulations to all on this stellar list - including ALTA members Shelley Fairweather-Vega, David McKay, Paige Aniyah Morris, and Robin Myers! www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

www.nationalbook.org

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · 29d

PEN America: "we've listened to our community, we're learning and changing"
Also PEN America: come to the event we're hosting at the 92Y, the zionist venue that cancelled Viet Thanh Nguyen's appearance after he criticized israel! we love free speech

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · Aug 25

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Aug 19

You can search here to see if your book was copied: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

And translators, make sure to search for your authors and not just your own name--your name might not bring up all your books.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.

If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Jun 26

AI is being used to justify firing workers at major tech companies, leaving those that remain to pick up the pieces.

AI code is being shoveled into crucial Google products, replacing trainers at TikTok, and worse.

This, in tech workers' own words, is how AI is killing jobs in Silicon Valley.

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers

Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Aug 12

See you in Tucson!!

Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · Aug 12

✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48

✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in

✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons

✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More

*better working conditions 4 literary translators*

American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · Aug 12

🎉 It's here! The schedule-at-a-glance for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which will be held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ, is LIVE!

Check it out now to see the panels, workshops, readings, events and more we have lined up for you in Tucson this November! buff.ly/6KmX2u2

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Skrev om vem som görs förtjänt av rättigheter och var gemenskapens gränser går, via en bok om USA:s illiberala historia:

www.svd.se/a/GydGM9/rec...

USA har aldrig varit särskilt liberalt | Kira Josefsson

De kallar sig för ”land of the free”, men mycket tyder på att USA blir allt mer ofritt – om det nu någonsin varit jämlikt och liberalt. Historikern Steven Hahn menar att självbilden är falsk.

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Aug 11

"Keep going Anas, you're our voice" - and now they've killed him. Almost 200 journalists murdered by Israel since the war on Gaza started.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

Gaza mourners have laid to rest five Al Jazeera staff killed in an Israeli air strike on a media tent.

Funerals held for Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel in Gaza

Gaza mourners have laid to rest five Al Jazeera staff killed in an Israeli air strike on a media tent.

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · Jul 10

New & emerging BIPOC lit translators! Apply for the Building Our Future 2-Day Virtual Workshop, meant to empower lit translators of color as they begin navigating the field. Led by poupeh missaghi & Sawad Hussain, w/ a business talk by Anni Liu. Free to participate! Apply by Monday:

ALTA

A L T A

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Jul 9

I won’t be able to write from the grave
so let me tell you what I love:
oil, vinegar, salt, lettuce, brown bread, butter,
cheese and wine, a windy day, a fireplace,
the children nearby, poems and songs,
a friend sleeping in my bed—
and the short northern nights.

RIP to a true north.

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · Jul 9

RIP Fanny Howe 1940–2025

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm facilitating one of these workshops in August and there are still a few spots left! Come think about puns and the music of prose with us: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-summe...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 8

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · Jun 20

1/4 A short 🧵 for daily(ish) #DSPBposts #PrideMonth #books: Antiquity by Hanna Johannson, trans. @kirajosefsson.bsky.social, @catapultbooks.bsky.social books.catapult.co/books/antiqu... & The Sapling Cage by @margaret.bsky.social, @feministpress.bsky.social www.feministpress.org/news/sapling...

Book cover for Antiquity by Hanna Johannson, trans. Kira Josefsson (Catapult), with a blonde person lightly touching the space immediately under their lower lip. Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her thirties upends the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter. Lust and admiration for Helena, a chic older artist, brings Antiquity’s unnamed narrator to Ermoupoli, where Helena’s daughter, Olga, seems at first like an obstacle and a nuisance. But the unpredictable forces of ego and desire take over, leading our narrator down a more dangerous path, and causing the roles of lover and beloved, child and adult, stranger and intimate to become distorted. As the months go by, the fragile web connecting the three women nears rupture, and the ominous consequences of their entanglement loom just beyond a summer that must end. https://books.catapult.co/books/antiquity/

Book cover for The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy ‬ (Feminist Press), with a bower of saplings surrounding a skull on a throne in a decorative style. In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a powerful story of trans witchcraft. Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them. There’s only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel disguises herself in a dress and joins in her friend’s place, leaving home and her old self behind. She soon discovers the dark powers threatening the kingdom: a magical blight scars the land, and the power-mad Duchess Helte is crushing everything between her and the crown. In spite of these dangers, Lorel makes friends and begins learning magic from the powerful witches in her coven. However, she fears that her new friends and mentors will find out her secret and kick her out of the coven, or worse. https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-sapling-cage

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Jun 10

Skrev om Trumps räder och när lagen är både omoralisk och orealistisk: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/B0P...

USA är helt beroende av papperslösa arbetare

KIRA JOSEFSSON:

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · Jun 4

another solidarity drop-in coming up with the Translators Organizing Committee! Join us 🏃‍♂️

National Writers Union @nwu.org · Jun 3

Hey, translators! NWU's Translators Organizing Committee is hosting another solidarity drop-in on June 11, 7:30pm ET. Email them at [email protected] to reserve your spot!

Image reads: "The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom, When: Wednesday, April 9, 7:30-8:45pm ET, Email us to reserve your spot! translators@nwu.org"

To the right of the text is an image of a keyboard with a drawn image beneath of two people talking with a translation image in a speech bubble above them.

Image reads: "We're doing this because... We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don't have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve!"

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · May 22

yes but for the love of g-d can people stop calling social democratic politics socialism... last time i checked zohran was not looking to abolish private property nor was bernie
nymag.com/intelligence...

Zohran Mamdani Crashes the Party

The mayoral candidate is selling the dream of a socialist New York. The picture inside the Democratic Party is more complicated.

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Kira Josefsson @kirajosefsson.bsky.social · May 21

So many good prizes in NWU's fundraiser raffle for Palestinian journalists: bit.ly/PJSraffle

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