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Paul db Watkins

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✍️🎥 Writer, English Lit, and Film Professor pauldbwatkins.com (he/him) 🎵Vinyl Aficionado and DJ 📚 Author: 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟’ ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕒𝕟: 𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜 ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟 ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕪, 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℂ𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡 (WLU Press) SoundinCanaan.com 🍉 "Now’s the Time” (MLK/Parker/Basquiat).

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jan 21

𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟’ ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕒𝕟: 𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜 ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟 ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕪, 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℂ𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡 is officially out! Seeing it in physical form is truly special. Music weaves through the book—just in the Prelude, I reference Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” Simone’s “Mississippi G**dam,” & Peterson’s “Hymn to Freedom.” Get your copy today!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza.

A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters.

Israel intends to violate international law once again.

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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · 7d

Rest in Power, Jane Goodall. Photo from 2019.

Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · 13d

Upcoming readings! ✊🍉

Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · 26d

This is wild.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · 26d

I enjoyed the generative questions I received for this interview: victoriafestivalofauthors.ca/2025/09/08/q...

Q&A with Paul db Watkins

Paul db Watkins is a professor of English at VIU. He is also a research team member with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). He has published widely on multic…

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · Sep 1

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Sep 3

A really interesting (and disturbing) read.

Gaza and the CBC: The Public Broadcaster Betrays Its Mandate

The CBC has consistently failed to provide accurate coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza, withholding crucial information that could motivate Canadians to take action. As a public broadcaster, it shou...

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 26

As O’Connor/Sadaqat wrote: “And if there ever is gonna be healing / There has to be remembering and then grieving / So that there then can be forgiving / There has to be knowledge and understanding.”

Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 26

May we all carry Sadaqat’s courage to speak out. But more than that, may there be a ceasefire. May peace—lasting and just—still be possible. #freepalestine

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 26

The UN reports that one-third of people go multiple days without food—and where over 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid.

Even more alarming: 85% of the population is now in the “fifth stage” of malnutrition—often irreversible, even if food becomes available.

Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Famine” draws a direct line between patriarchal power structures, colonialism, and the British starvation of the Irish. A fierce advocate for Palestine, Sadaqat would be appalled by the inhumanity of the current “famine” [Genocide] in Gaza.

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 26

Shuhada’ Sadaqat (Sinéad O’Connor) left this world on this day in 2023. Her music and legacy remain a powerful testament of speaking truth to power. Today I’m spinning 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕒𝕝 𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 (1994), which includes the devastating “Famine.”

Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 25

“‘In Brand’s work, the political cannot be separated from the aesthetic,’ the scholar Saidiya Hartman, a friend of Brand’s, explained to me … Brand probes our habits of arrangement, and rejects the customary conflation between dominance and rightness.”

Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · Jul 24

Dionne Brand is one our greatest literary thinkers, and this profile of her is a great read.

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The Measure of the World

By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 21

I love trains, so travelling through Japan by rail was delightful. I want to go back already.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 20

Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza

After pontiff calls for peace, Gaza’s health ministry says 73 Palestinians waiting for aid have been killed Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s health ministry said at least 73 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food. The Hamas-run ministry said on Sunday that the victims had been killed in different locations, mostly in northern Gaza. Continue reading...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 19

I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.

85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Jul 12

Happy to share this great review of Soundin’ Canaan in The Malahat Review: "Soundin’ Canaan is a wholly moving creation. This is what committed scholarship and critical artistry can be: meditative, far-reaching, humming, love-centred:" @wlupress.bsky.social Review: soundincanaan.com/wp-content/u...

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · May 15

Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · May 8

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · May 8

Looks like he’ll be perceived as another “woke” Pope. Although really this is just the basic level of human compassion that should be required for such a role.

Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · May 8

New Pope has a Twitter account and this was the last thing he sent

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · May 6

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · May 1

Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands.
Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.

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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social · Apr 28

Also, it took just two minutes. Try to go early before it gets busier if you can.