Reading Jodi Melamed’s racial capitalism this morning and this is so striking.

Link here: racialcapitalism.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u...

No words other than what Ambalavaner Sivanandan wrote in his 2006 “Race, Terror, and Civil Society”:

Proud to share the panel that @koriannon.bsky.social and I put together for this years Celtic Classical Conference in Coimbra, entitled “Race, Gender, and Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World! Link to our preliminary schedule below:

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Very much enjoying this conference on the 70s BCE! You can tune in online by emailing [email protected]

More brilliance from Dionne Brand on a chilly morning.

Dionne Brand’s Salvage is setting my mind alight. Literature and fiction as a key and soft part of the apparatus for legitimating slavery, imperialism, and colonialism.

Tonight’s reading: Lorgia García Peña’s amazing, arresting, and unsettling “Community as Rebellion…a must read