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Patrick Crowley
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Interplanetary Revolutionist, Distressed Poeticist, Hummingbird Enthusiast, Still on the Waitlist

Co-editor of Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense (Indiana UP, 2025)
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Patrick Crowley @pmcrowley.bsky.social · May 22
There are more fascinating new books than anyone can keep up with, but to those interested in nontraditional scholarship on questions of coloniality, check out Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense, co-edited by the late philosopher María Lugones.
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Decolonial Thinking
Decolonial Thinking delves into the intricate web of colonial practices, terms, and ideas that have woven themselves into people's lives. It seeks to underst...
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"the most intellectually engaging 90 minutes I have spent in a long time"
-the president of an elite college pretending to argue with with a AI version of Ayn Rand
I was impressed that the bot could articulate Rand's core arguments, impersonate her direct writing and speaking style, question my own logic, provide specific examples, "reason" beyond the time and place of heroriginal writing, and offer creative analogies (when pressed to explain the economic success of today's welfare capitalism, she responded, "You are celebrating reaching the 2nd floor while I am pointing out that we could have built a skyscraper"). This was one of the most intellectually engaging 90 minutes I have spent in a long time.
December 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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siembranc.bsky.social
David Cárdenas Centeno—a father of three Wake County Public School students whose family has lived in Raleigh for the past three years—was attending his annual check-in with Citizenship and Immigration Services when he was effectively disappeared by ICE.
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
because my original alt text was shitty as fuck... god, those were basic & awful. im sorry.

Bus Fare For A Valkyrie
Bus Fare For A Valkyrie Q: where are the brazen poems lashing apocryphal authorities with fire in counter measures to police brutality? the lit fuse in physical f light as metaphor for swinging, breathing, driving, singing (ruses and muses) a sun-dressed child, black and 10, handcuffed to a carousel, quietly smiles, facedown, at a colony of ants dismantling cookies into a cosmos of crumbs; the armored cop above her takes a knee to her back, taking selfies with rip roaring laughter while a volley of spectators look on, youtube’s benign, guerilla loaf. I’ve known poems to vibrate like the glass plate of a CVS but never go virile enough to checkmate white supremacy or simile an assembly of swat teams into final submission there are no poems burning literal hell through a kevlar vest like snipers for a black mass in self-sentience never has a poem been written that kills its enemy for I have tried and failed free verse like drone strikes in service of the disenfranchised and even when writing of pink unicorns in utopian gardens of mint my quivers are concussed a schizophrenic sun foams over the earth and the stars pull out their hair screaming until hoarse into the night an apoplectic moon hoards its fullness and never surrenders its wane to the sea our civil suppositions were written in the shadows of a lynching this plague of democracy a puzzle where holocaust performs due diligence monopolizing all conjectures on race. so how do i justify to progeny my simple trove of poems? “huzzah! - discordant verse as balm for the rope burns around your neck; this inheritance of long, jarring prose, overworked sonnets to a disemboweled lover; this recherché for revenge; a pâté of pegasus — children-abandoned-by-civility: please come forward and have your fill” (muses and ruses) how does the code-switching poet decry existential nihilism without jeopardizing a genius grant? A: from the skull of an angler fish, (etiolant from edacious hunger) the head of the pink unicorn dangles like bait.
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I love Jimmy Cliff. “Many Rivers to Cross” is the most beautiful song ever written.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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ANANSI WITH THE LAUGHING FACE
Anansi With The Laughing Face a blood-bourn jazz blaring this nuisance of neon ruining the sheen of mr. clean’s marble — we are mosquitos in the ears of Monstrous Zeus fearing our bite when we’ve only come to buzz: self-paregoric we’ve learned to praise the pathogen leviathans in leisure with canopic jargon your diaphanous icons & dim dandies (cirrocumulus in nature) telling us where to apply the baby powder in assumptions of service / black people with brushes of rouge at the sole discretion of high cheek bones with a low brow the hymn locked: “shoo, polish!” is the black poet’s eternal stanza this million mosquito arch, this swarm song of sand & asphalt as feral as we are floral said to be inconsequential with our serial slang the “artless” with a gargoyle’s yodel nacreous words that gargle the candescence of sun sculpting fractals of god from geometries of sorrow / see it says so right here: written in central african sanskrit on the back of some kentucky slaver’s bill of sale - it’s just you have to hold it to the sky in full light against the sun where all will see.
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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james baldwin
UNTITLED
block print illustration of a pomegranate; red ink on cream paper. Untitled Lord, when you send the rain, think about it please, a little? Do not get carried away by the sound of falling water, the marvelous light on the falling water. I am beneath that water. It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The Caribbean Digital XII Conference Schedule is live!

Swipe to see the lineup, and click the link in bio to see the full conference details, as well as the registration link.

We hope to see you in Boston soon!



#cdsc #tcdxii
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Loving the new album and looking forward to this show! @themountaingoats.bsky.social
John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats | The Pinhook
John Darnielle has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcoh...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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In the Small Axe 77 issue, our Keywords in Caribbean Studies section is devoted to the concept Heritage, with essays by Alyssa James, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Khadene Harris, and Nadia Mosquera Muriel
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/48txdj6r
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Winston-Salem scaled back proposed park rules and dropped proposed bans on camping and large bags after council concerns they could target people who are unhoused. #WFDD #WinstonSalem #parks #homelessness
Winston-Salem scales back proposed park rules after council concerns
Winston-Salem dropped proposed bans on camping and large bags in city parks after concerns they could target people who are unhoused.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
pmcrowley.bsky.social
Helpful clarification from Catherine Walsh (2023):
The decolonial, in this sense, is not an academic fad or invention. Nor is it a condition of enlightenment, an arrival point of illumination, an identity or commodity to be possessed, or a new method to be applied. Likewise, and in my view, it cannot be part of a top-down project institutionalized and effectuated by schools or states. It is a project, process, practice, and praxis that is struggled, thought, and actioned from below in ways that put into question and tension the still-colonial projects of these societal structures and institutions — including educational ones.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!

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November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

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The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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"I imagine in that mythic clearing at Bois Caïman those gathered call each other poet and in that tongue they steal away to the ritual of keeping alive in themselves that ecstasy of freedom dreams."

from Canisia Lubrin's amazing Alchemy Lecture

thank you @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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“Given the rental markets across the country, it’s not an easy thing to find an apartment to rent in just a few weeks.” 

theintercept.com/2025/08/15/t...

By @theintercept.com’s @jesswash.bsky.social

#housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+
Trump the Landlord Plans to Speed Up Evictions From Public Housing
The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Don Flow and his cronies want to pay $1 a month for 8 publicly-owned parcels of land downtown. They tell us they'll build an amphitheater at no cost to the public. But parking, traffic, safety, and noise burdens will be borne by residents while the owners of the proposed venue rake in profits.
Bobby, from King of the Hill, in a self-defense class looking angry. Text reads, "THAT'S MY PUBLIC LAND I DON'T KNOW YOU"
August 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Appalling, ghastly terrorism and kidnapping in Greensboro.

"When asked if he had ever been harassed because of his heritage, ... he told them. "Yes, by you when you came to my house to try and kidnap me without any identification or a warrant, and when you detained me today."
DETAINED BY ICE
The black scuff marks from the boot of an ICE agent remain just inside a terrified family's home in Greensboro.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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WSNC
Crowd of people protesting
June 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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New (May 2025): Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense – Edited by María Lugones and Patrick M. Crowley | Indiana University Press | More information can be found here: iupress.org/978025307305...
May 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Caribbean Philosophical Association (@caribphil.bsky.social) members will want to know about Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense, a new volume of essays co-edited by María Lugones (1944-2020), past winner of Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award. tinyurl.com/aka5fcjh
Decolonial Thinking
Decolonial Thinking delves into the intricate web of colonial practices, terms, and ideas that have woven themselves into people's lives. It seeks to underst...
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May 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM