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Katherine McKittrick

@demonicgrounds.bsky.social

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lovesick audiophile + heartbroken reader + book maker most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 11h

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 5h

…dear science translation!

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 14d

Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12d

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 12d

I cannot keep up.

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Tylenol jokes drift into anti-disability and misogyny which is so fucked up.

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 13d

this Tylenol business uncovers the depths of misogyny. I mean these people despise women and mothers and mothering and are finding ways to destroy their kids by implying autism is a disease (impure, passed on) and by and shoring up eugenic thinking. brainless violence.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 29d

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · Sep 8

Antipode volume 57, number 5 -- our September 2025 issue -- out now, including a seven-article Symposium, "A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste" antipodeonline.org/2025/09/08/v...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 2

One of our most anticipated September books is feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty's "Insurgent Visions," which explores methods of anticapitalist resistance to radically transform everyday life. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

Cover of Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. The cover features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition. The larger human face is arranged adjacent to and underneath shapes that evoke a brain and spinal column respectively.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · Sep 1

Amazing fellowship opportunity for Canadian Black women (+) writers (including art critics) who are OVER 40. Love it. Pass along!

Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 27

writing residency.
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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 27

writing residency.
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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 29

5. Sometimes it’s hard to see extractive and thiefy types because you are, say, wholeheartedly committed to a new world view or whatever. Thiefies are in love with binaries and punching down—they are hard to see because you think they share your Weltanschauung. They don’t.

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 29

4. It’s okay to read a theorist or theory doesn’t work for you and abandon it. You don’t have to live with a theory that despises you and your ideas.

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 29

3. If your theories of black geographies don’t include (subtle or not) critiques of nationalism, empire, patriarchy, and filial geographies, then you are not theorizing black geographies.

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 29

2. If you don’t understand Sylvia Wynter, instead of complaining that it’s too hard or distant, read something else rather than watering it down or drowning everyone else out with your complaints. Also, don’t be rude to the few junior scholars who read Wynter deeply.

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 29

1. If “the black Atlantic” is in your book title, I expect citations of the book, The Black Atlantic.

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Bungatuffie "where ignorant armies clash by night" #lemmingland @bungatuffie.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 27

congratulations @benchansfield.bsky.social on the publication of Born in Flames! thank you for this brilliant study! I’ll be teaching Born in Flames this winter in my black geographies seminar ✌🏾!

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · Aug 27

writing residency.
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