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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 5d

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 5d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 12d

The Decolonial Conference is about confronting complicity and building coalitions.

It’s about organizing and fighting against domination, imagining new worlds, and putting radical thought into action.

Los Angeles, CA, April 6-8, 2026

#decolonialconference

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brendan coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 17d

Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · 15d

YEP YEP YEP. Even the non-Bath events completely ignore the critical work many have done to include critique and documentation of the horrors of empire. It feels like some folks were more than ready to throw out the critical work people were working so hard on in order to get a speaker’s fee.

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 15d

It is very clear and there is a strategic backlash against our work and against others' and also against Edward Said who while, like all of us, not perfect, was absolutely right about Austen, culture and empire! Now, Austen is apparently a radical revolutionary lol. $$$ to be made there...

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 15d

The really disturbing thing is that the mainstream celebrations of Austen in Bath etc are very white and whiteness dominated, celebrating an imperial world with little critique!

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you, Bianca, and so great to see Olivia Carpenter having a say in this conversation on Austen and her limitations! @theconversation.com

Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · 15d

Always appreciate a Kerry Sinanan ( @kerrysinanan.bsky.social ) shoutout in the Austen sphere.

theconversation.com/jane-austens...

Jane Austen’s real and literary worlds weren’t exclusively white – just read her last book, Sanditon

While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 22d

We've taken our @marsdenfund.bsky.social "Poetics of Treaties" project on the road! Spending time today at the Agowiidiwinan Centre & at the Museum of Human Rights thinking about treaties in those contexts, then speaking tomorrow at UW.

Thank you to @kerrysinanan.bsky.social for hosting us there

Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 22d

Very excited that I will finally meet @nikkihessell.bsky.social in person tomorrow and cannot wait to hear her talk with Carwyn Jones on how we can center Treaties in our work and on comparing different treaty experiences and knowledges in 'Canada' and Aotearoa

The BIPOC Network and the Department of English Special Programs present this
talk which will look at issues around treaties in a comparative and interdisciplinary way.
Carwyn Jones will talk about the example of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Waitangi Tribunal as an accountability mechanism, including the importance of understanding treaties as Indigenous law instruments. Nikki Hessell will talk about how historical settler ideas about treaty-making can be understood using Indigenous concepts that take in creative expression, including poetry, as part of the textual world of treaties.

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 22d

These violent lynchings of a student, Trey Reed, and a homeless man are being hidden. There is a direct through line between the fascist response to Kirk's death, blaming everyone except their own, and these murders.

monique @thejournalista.com · 22d

2 Black men found hanging in Mississippi just hours apart yesterday.

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2 Black Men Found Hanging In Mississippi Just Hours Apart

Demartravion "Trey" Reed was found hanging at Delta State University; Cory Zukatis was found hanging near Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg.

newsone.com

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 22d

Very excited that I will finally meet @nikkihessell.bsky.social in person tomorrow and cannot wait to hear her talk with Carwyn Jones on how we can center Treaties in our work and on comparing different treaty experiences and knowledges in 'Canada' and Aotearoa

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 22d

The number of white progressives and liberals stumbling over themselves and crying is pathetic. We see you. And we know you won’t lift a finger to protect the same marginalized ppl you grift off of. HATE IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION. The fact that this has to be said is unconscionable

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 26d

This prompts me to go back and re-read Claudia Rankine’s JUST US.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 29d

Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials say the negotiating team survived the attack.

mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra...

#Palestine #Israel

Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators

Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials...

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 29d

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

www.theguardian.com

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · 29d

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Look how many reads for your vital essay, @bookhoarding.bsky.social !!

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Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · Sep 8

And, of course, if you've ever swooned at an Austen estate, you have to read Tré Ventour-Griffiths's: National Trust in Jane Austen’s Empires of Sugar
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: National Trust in Jane Austen’s Empires of Sugar

By Tré Ventour-Griffiths, Published on 12/22/21

digitalcommons.usf.edu

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Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · Sep 8

Don't miss @amandaraeprescott.bsky.social's point-by-point documentation of Jane Austen fandom racism: Notes On A Scandal: Sanditon Fandom’s Ongoing Racism And The Danger Of Ignoring Austen Discourse On Social Media digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Notes On A Scandal: Sanditon Fandom’s Ongoing Racism And The Danger Of Ignoring Austen Discourse On Social Media

Sanditon fans have used social media more than many other past Jane Austen adaptations to discuss the series and to share news developments about the series. This was partially due to the COVID-19 pan...

digitalcommons.usf.edu

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Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · Sep 8

You can read my contribution here: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy

Jane Austen is a master of genre, and her allusions and direct references in her Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey show that she is not just a satirist, she clearly understood and even appreciated the wo...

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Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social · Sep 8

In this Jane Austen anniversary year, I love how much our essay cluster "Race and Racism in Austen Spaces" keeps getting read over on ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts!

Read @kerrysinanan.bsky.social's framing: Eroticizing Men of Empire in Austen digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...

Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Eroticizing Men of Empire in Austen

By Kerry Sinanan, Published on 12/22/21

digitalcommons.usf.edu

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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rampant counterisurgency in slavery historiography that is dominated by liberals who refuse to reckon with the structures of white supremacy, anti-Indigeneity and anti-Blackness their narratives ultimately uphold. Longer thread needed but this is for now....

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Sep 5

The argument being made for a return to the past in hiring or admissions [at UVA] seems to be an argument for a return to affirmative action for white men.

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

5 U.Va. COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Gerber has it wrong — our U.Va. is better

It seems clear to us that expanding the available pool of faculty and students has heightened the School of Law’s standards and dramatically improved the University.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Axios @axios.com · Sep 5

BREAKING: Israel bombs high-rise buildings in Gaza City ahead of massive offensive

Israel bombs high-rise buildings in Gaza City ahead of massive offensive

"The bolt is now being lifted from the gates of hell in Gaza," said Israel's minister of defense.

www.axios.com

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