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Daisy Rockwell

@shreedaisy.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · May 17

These two beauties are available for pre-order now in the US. The Women’s Courtyard cover is a beautiful painting by renowned Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander and the Tamas cover is an amazing woodblock print by Indian illustrator Anagh Bannerjee.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 7h

Read the new issue of @pshares.bsky.social! There’s a real banger of a story by Geetanjali Shree, translated by me 💖💖💖

Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 10h

Our Fall 2025 issue is out now! Read longform prose by Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Fortunato Salazar, Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell), Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Mary Winsor. Start reading: https://pshr.us/fall25

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 7h

They should count themselves as lucky!

Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 8h

Wowowow

Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 14h

What are you complaining about? There’s five whole women on there!

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 14h

Bootiful Forevers, lol! I have avoided that one.

Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 14h

Well this list says 21st century but there are some that were only translated in the 21st, like the Savage Detectives. But yes, many of the SA authors are still writing too, but maybe you are right, they’re out of vogue

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 15h

I thought you meant the chain connecting his pocket watch to his waistcoat

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like the list maker should not be able to double up on favorite authors either, like Zadie Smith and Elena Ferrante

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 15h

Exactly! Okay only the vegetarian is translated from an Asian language.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 15h

Satrapi writes in French, also. Pakistan is in South Asia so it counts but now I’m going to go see how much there is on the list translated from actual Asian languages

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, that too!

Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 16h

I think it’s okay to use contemporary tools especially if the sentiment is philosophical, where you’d want to prioritize the meaning of the philosophy

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 4d

Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Letter to Northwestern University expressing concern about its flawed compulsory anti-bias training and its threats against students who refuse to complete it Henry S. Bienen Interim President, Northwestern University [email protected] Dear President Bienen and Colleagues: We write on behalf of the Middle […]

dlvr.it

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 7d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Tasavvur Magazine @tasavvurnama.bsky.social · 7d

Stories containing great myths and legends await you, written by some amazing writers from South-Asia!

Click the link to read: tasavvurnama.com

🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

I feel like not nearly enough people understand this:
"Where real thinking involves organic associations, speculative leaps, and surprise inferences, AI can only recognize and repeat embedded word chains, based on elaborately automated statistical guesswork."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

Israeli forces have reportedly boarded the Alma vessel, the leading ship of the Global Sumud Flotilla, and detained its crew.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

Yasmine Acar shared that the Alma boat from the Sumud Freedom Flotilla is being officially intercepted and they are being kidnapped.

She adds “ALL EYES ON PALESTINE, ALL EYES ON GAZA”

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

Al-Jazeera journalists onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla report the Israeli navy confiscated everyone's phones first before boarding the vessels.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 7d

That’s such a great idea!

Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 7d

Wow! 🤯

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