Blake Stricklin
@blakestricklin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. American Paraliterature and other Theories to Hijack Communication.
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"So if the violence of the deportations, and the crackdowns, and the cuts, and the raids, and the air strikes, haven’t been enough for you, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action." Thank you, @literaryhub.bsky.social 💥
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 AM
"So if the violence of the deportations, and the crackdowns, and the cuts, and the raids, and the air strikes, haven’t been enough for you, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action." Thank you, @literaryhub.bsky.social 💥
Published in 2021. Hoping to start a sequel on New Narrative and critical theory next year.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Published in 2021. Hoping to start a sequel on New Narrative and critical theory next year.
anthempress.com/books/americ...
anthempress.com/books/americ...
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ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
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It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !
Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...
Episode 21: Samuel Delany
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June 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...
Episode 21: Samuel Delany
Pod45 · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...
open.spotify.com/episode/1ZFm...
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*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER
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May 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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in love, always, with nonprofit lit org newsletter design in the late '70s and early '80s
March 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
in love, always, with nonprofit lit org newsletter design in the late '70s and early '80s
Recently watched Leos Carax's It's Not Me and Carax said our world is flooded with so many images that we no longer have time to blink. But, "we need to blink; the beauty of the world demands it." David Lynch was an artist that made us blink.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmm...
Twin Peaks: Ed and Norma's BEST Scene
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January 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Recently watched Leos Carax's It's Not Me and Carax said our world is flooded with so many images that we no longer have time to blink. But, "we need to blink; the beauty of the world demands it." David Lynch was an artist that made us blink.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmm...
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I ended my membership with the MLA a few months before the current controversy (about a resolution and the leadership's authoritarian tactics). It became clear to me that MLA has nothing to offer those of us who work at underfunded public schools.
matthewcheney.net/blog/against...
matthewcheney.net/blog/against...
Against the Monetized Language Association
The annual Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention ended this past weekend. I was not there. Last year I attended the convention in Philadelphia, but a few months after it, I decided to let my ML...
matthewcheney.net
January 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I ended my membership with the MLA a few months before the current controversy (about a resolution and the leadership's authoritarian tactics). It became clear to me that MLA has nothing to offer those of us who work at underfunded public schools.
matthewcheney.net/blog/against...
matthewcheney.net/blog/against...
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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So happy this essay and cluster are out! It is an honor to be able to pay tribute to the great Samuel Delany.
November 29, 2024 at 3:48 PM
So happy this essay and cluster are out! It is an honor to be able to pay tribute to the great Samuel Delany.
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For @breu.bsky.social, in “Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution,” Delany’s non-nostalgic “sexual commons” of old Times Square offers a geography of contact and the an-arranging politics of sexual encounter.
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution: Samuel Delany’s Sexual Commons - Post45
For Earl Jackson Jr. who introduced me to Samuel R. Delany's brilliance. Willfully Confusing Sex and Revolution Early in my professional career, when I had just moved back from California to take a jo...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
For @breu.bsky.social, in “Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution,” Delany’s non-nostalgic “sexual commons” of old Times Square offers a geography of contact and the an-arranging politics of sexual encounter.
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
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Y Howard takes up Delany’s work through his “graphic superfluity” of language and image—or “sexcess.” Delany’s mind, and work, perceives “erratic routes of an always in-process account of encounters, reproduced as sexually promiscuous forms of writing.”
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
Dyslexical Sexcess, Photo-Textual Rhythms - Post45
“I’m promiscuously autobiographical.” – Samuel R. Delany((Quoted in Julian Lucas, “Galaxy Brain,” The New Yorker (10 and 17 July 2023), 34.)) “Improvisation, in whatever possible excess of representat...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Y Howard takes up Delany’s work through his “graphic superfluity” of language and image—or “sexcess.” Delany’s mind, and work, perceives “erratic routes of an always in-process account of encounters, reproduced as sexually promiscuous forms of writing.”
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
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Reading Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos, Rebekah Sheldon offers an understanding of Delany’s speculative fiction and pornographic writing as it pertains to the literary history of the occult.
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
Phallos: Queer Sex Magick - Post45
Author’s note #1: On the cover of Samuel R. Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos is a drawing of a winged Minotaur: head and tail of a bull, beclawed hands and foot, muscular human torso. Kneeling, ...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Reading Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos, Rebekah Sheldon offers an understanding of Delany’s speculative fiction and pornographic writing as it pertains to the literary history of the occult.
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
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Next, in “Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole,” @kirinwgrene.bsky.social thinks through “Delany's representations of urban, interclass contact” in TSR,TSB and The Motion of Light in Water.
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole - Post45
Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Berlant’s and Michael Warner’s essay “Sex in Public” traced how the privatization of sex devastated public sex cultures in New York City at the turn of the millennium. Th...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Next, in “Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole,” @kirinwgrene.bsky.social thinks through “Delany's representations of urban, interclass contact” in TSR,TSB and The Motion of Light in Water.
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
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This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu!
post45.org/contemporari...
post45.org/contemporari...
Contemporaries - Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:43 PM
This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu!
post45.org/contemporari...
post45.org/contemporari...
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🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
November 29, 2024 at 3:19 AM
🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!
Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)
Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!