Mia You
@miayou.bsky.social
New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
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Feeling honored and grateful to receive the Best Article Prize this year! 💙 Huge thanks to the wonderful editorial team from Environmental Humanities journal for their support in publishing this work.
Feeling so motivated to dive even deeper into many waters of the Blue Humanities! 🌊✨
#envhum
Feeling so motivated to dive even deeper into many waters of the Blue Humanities! 🌊✨
#envhum
We start with announcement of Environmental Humanities 2025 Best Article Prize which goes to (drumroll):
@susanneferwerda.bsky.social for "Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
Read the citation for the award:
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
@susanneferwerda.bsky.social for "Blue Humanities and the Color of Colonialism" read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
Read the citation for the award:
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Feeling honored and grateful to receive the Best Article Prize this year! 💙 Huge thanks to the wonderful editorial team from Environmental Humanities journal for their support in publishing this work.
Feeling so motivated to dive even deeper into many waters of the Blue Humanities! 🌊✨
#envhum
Feeling so motivated to dive even deeper into many waters of the Blue Humanities! 🌊✨
#envhum
On 29 Nov, I’ll be interviewing the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun & his Dutch translator Djûke Poppinga.
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
Ghayath Almadhoun - Wintertuinfestival
www.wintertuinfestival.nl
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
On 29 Nov, I’ll be interviewing the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun & his Dutch translator Djûke Poppinga.
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
Last night I got to see Derek Jarman’s Blue at the cinema. “The world is dying, and we do not notice it,” he said in 1993, as he faced his own death and still kept looking for beauty. “Love is life that lasts forever.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Last night I got to see Derek Jarman’s Blue at the cinema. “The world is dying, and we do not notice it,” he said in 1993, as he faced his own death and still kept looking for beauty. “Love is life that lasts forever.”
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Completely 🦇🦇 that in two months this has gone from red pencil to actual book with French flaps! Happy / stupidly emotional launch day to the little book that for the longest time couldn't & then could.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Completely 🦇🦇 that in two months this has gone from red pencil to actual book with French flaps! Happy / stupidly emotional launch day to the little book that for the longest time couldn't & then could.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.
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Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures:
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
Change starts here
Join over 500,000,000 people creating real change in their communities.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures:
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too
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Perfect illustration of today reality…
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Perfect illustration of today reality…
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If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
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The ability to understand the significance or poetry of something without behaving as if it is literally true, whether that thing is an ancient myth or modern literary character or an AI chatbot, is *incredibly important* to functioning in contemporary society and much rarer than we'd like to think.
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Love showering in poop water, love doing the dishes in poop water, love accidentally rinsing my toothbrush in poop water, love boiling for three minutes a large pan of poop water, love making coffee with boiled poop water, love filling my dog’s bowl with poop water, just love it 🤎💩💦
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Love showering in poop water, love doing the dishes in poop water, love accidentally rinsing my toothbrush in poop water, love boiling for three minutes a large pan of poop water, love making coffee with boiled poop water, love filling my dog’s bowl with poop water, just love it 🤎💩💦
If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you’re around Utrecht on 11 November, Biswamit Dwibedy will be in town!
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Young poet Batool Abu Akleen has been evacuated from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and has arrived in Paris on 28 October. Please contribute to this fund for her monthly scholarship in France - every small donation helps: chuffed.org/project/1431...
Financer la licence de Batool Abu Akleen, poétesse gazaouie
(English below)
chuffed.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Young poet Batool Abu Akleen has been evacuated from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and has arrived in Paris on 28 October. Please contribute to this fund for her monthly scholarship in France - every small donation helps: chuffed.org/project/1431...
Dutch elections are always so unsatisfying. I never understand if we’re relieved or if we’re just screwed in another combination of ways. Can someone let me know before the cabinet falls again?
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Dutch elections are always so unsatisfying. I never understand if we’re relieved or if we’re just screwed in another combination of ways. Can someone let me know before the cabinet falls again?
Kim Hyesoon has a new book, which has the beautiful title Synchronized Sea Anemone, and it is funny and strange and makes me see again the shifting limits of our (more than human) bodies and how that shapes the form of our living. I got to translate the title poem for the Korean publication. 🪼🩵🪸
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Kim Hyesoon has a new book, which has the beautiful title Synchronized Sea Anemone, and it is funny and strange and makes me see again the shifting limits of our (more than human) bodies and how that shapes the form of our living. I got to translate the title poem for the Korean publication. 🪼🩵🪸
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As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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Anyway, read @miayou.bsky.social's poem "The Love Song of My Hologram" brainwashfestival.nl/en/poem-by-m...
mia you: the lovesong of my hologram – Brainwash Festival
brainwashfestival.nl
October 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Anyway, read @miayou.bsky.social's poem "The Love Song of My Hologram" brainwashfestival.nl/en/poem-by-m...
It’s kind of amazing to me how people can ask for so much interest and attention without ever offering it back.
October 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It’s kind of amazing to me how people can ask for so much interest and attention without ever offering it back.
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So grateful I got to be there for this - make sure you catch this gorgeous film when it comes your way
Very much looking forward to seeing Marie Valentine Regan in Utrecht, who will screen and talk about her documentary on the great Etel Adnan. I’ve seen fragments and even these did do much to restore and inspire my heart. 💜 @ilfu.com
ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
Film & Talk: Etel Adnan (speciale voorvertoning van 'Adnan being and time') • ILFU
For English, click hereSpeciale voorvertoning van deze filmdocumentaire (duur: 70 min) van Marie Valentine Regan over het schilder- en dichtwerk van Etel Adnan. Met een exclusieve Q&A met filmmake...
ilfu.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
So grateful I got to be there for this - make sure you catch this gorgeous film when it comes your way
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@historiek.bsky.social licht enkele recent verschenen geschiedenisboeken uit. "Schrijven over vernietiging" -over de Holocaust, kolonialisme, Gaza- is één van de tien boeken, net als het nét verschenen "De wereld volgens Noord-Korea" van @remcobreuker.bsky.social . Gebroederlijk boven elkaar.
Nieuwe geschiedenisboeken, week 40 (2025) | Historiek
Wekelijks verschijnen er nieuwe geschiedenisboeken. Van lijvige studies tot publieksboeken en van naslagwerken tot historische strips. Op Historiek plaatsen we veel voorpublicaties en we bespreken…
historiek.net
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
@historiek.bsky.social licht enkele recent verschenen geschiedenisboeken uit. "Schrijven over vernietiging" -over de Holocaust, kolonialisme, Gaza- is één van de tien boeken, net als het nét verschenen "De wereld volgens Noord-Korea" van @remcobreuker.bsky.social . Gebroederlijk boven elkaar.
Very much looking forward to seeing Marie Valentine Regan in Utrecht, who will screen and talk about her documentary on the great Etel Adnan. I’ve seen fragments and even these did do much to restore and inspire my heart. 💜 @ilfu.com
ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
Film & Talk: Etel Adnan (speciale voorvertoning van 'Adnan being and time') • ILFU
For English, click hereSpeciale voorvertoning van deze filmdocumentaire (duur: 70 min) van Marie Valentine Regan over het schilder- en dichtwerk van Etel Adnan. Met een exclusieve Q&A met filmmake...
ilfu.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Very much looking forward to seeing Marie Valentine Regan in Utrecht, who will screen and talk about her documentary on the great Etel Adnan. I’ve seen fragments and even these did do much to restore and inspire my heart. 💜 @ilfu.com
ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
ilfu.com/agenda/film-...
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Felix Straatsma maakte voor Radio @sleutelstad.bsky.social een mooie reportage over de boekpresentatie van "Schrijven over vernietiging". Interviews met Sander Bax, Mia You, bram ieven, Bareez Majid en ondergetekende.
sleutelstad.nl/2025/09/17/s...
sleutelstad.nl/2025/09/17/s...
'Schrijven over vernietiging': nieuw boek eert Holocaust-overlever Sem Dresden
De Universiteitsbibliotheek (UB) in Leiden organiseerde maandag voor de tweede keer een symposium ter nagedachtenis aan de in 2002 overleden hoogleraar en Holocaust-overlever Sem Dresden. Tijdens dit ...
sleutelstad.nl
September 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Felix Straatsma maakte voor Radio @sleutelstad.bsky.social een mooie reportage over de boekpresentatie van "Schrijven over vernietiging". Interviews met Sander Bax, Mia You, bram ieven, Bareez Majid en ondergetekende.
sleutelstad.nl/2025/09/17/s...
sleutelstad.nl/2025/09/17/s...
Friends in Paris: I’ll be reading with Claudia Rankine and Gabriel Gauthier on 24 September, Atelier Michael Woolworth, for the wonderful Double Change collective. Please come by and say hello. 💞
doublechange.org/2025/09/09/2...
doublechange.org/2025/09/09/2...
September 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Friends in Paris: I’ll be reading with Claudia Rankine and Gabriel Gauthier on 24 September, Atelier Michael Woolworth, for the wonderful Double Change collective. Please come by and say hello. 💞
doublechange.org/2025/09/09/2...
doublechange.org/2025/09/09/2...
Same for NL please
Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?
September 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Same for NL please
Now with Gloria Wekker too ❤️🔥
Happy to get to join this program on Audre Lorde’s literary & political legacy with Mariken Heitman, @sylvanasimons.bsky.social & @lazeefuik.bsky.social .
As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
As Lorde said, “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.” 🍉
Een nieuwe spelling van onze namen – over 'Zami' van Audre Lorde
September 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Now with Gloria Wekker too ❤️🔥