andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html insta: audio.futurism
*Coach Jackie voice* I love women's sports, we've got lesbians and cyborgs
Lucy 🫠 📷@ltotheucy.bsky.social · 2h agoThere is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.
Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1h ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Enjoyed this Esquire feature on the Churchwell brothers. IMO, they are among the last elegantly dressed men in the United States. Notably, neither are "fashion influencers." They are both distinguished cardiologists with great taste and a lifetime relationship with the same tailor.
i already like and reposted this one in '23, but here it is again because it's like the best post ever
DC Pierson@dcpierson.bsky.social · 3y agoReluctantly crouched At the starting line Parsley Sage Rosemary and thyme
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
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Lots chatter in these social media streets bout Children of Blood and Bone. ALL BLACK EVERYTHING flick got ALL BLACK DRAMA. But this blog ain't bout none of that. Instead, I tackle another related controversy about the joys, rewards, perils, and pitfalls of writing African-inspired fantasy.
Africa, Fantasy, and Worldbuilding
Movie still featuring royal family in film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone Over the past few weeks there’s been a lot of discourse about the film adaptation of Nigerian-American writ…
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The most glaring double standard in American politics today is that if a Democrat said 1/10th about GOP-leaning areas what this guy says about cities on the daily there'd be a media dogpile so swift and vicious there'd be nothing left of their bones for the hyenas to pick at.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."
Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
I'm happy to hear that there is a film being made about South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela.
The Root@therootdotcom.bsky.social · 6d agoJohn Legend is stepping into the role of a legend. The EGOT winner has been cast as the late Harry Belafonte in “The Road Home,” an upcoming drama set during South Africa’s apartheid era. The film follows jazz icon Hugh Masekela as he navigates the global fight against apartheid.
The Wiz: Can You Feel A Brand New Day Dance
Alt: People in costumes dancing behind Diana Ross with a low natural wearing a sensible blouse and knee-length skirt singing "Can You Feel A Brand New Day Dance"
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Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Hey I was alerted that my teaching/reading theory essay We Aren’t Here To Learn What We Already Know has been migrating servers and here’s a new link avidly.org/we-arent-her...
We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know - Avidly
What is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender
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Not sure how having a beer and cig after lifting weights counts as anarchism, but whatever www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/artic...
Wellness anarchy: The movement rejecting fitness puritanism
Tired of the restrictive rules of modern wellness, people are now combining their workouts with hard partying, drinking and a couple of cigs
dazeddigital.com
I've heard a lot of you complaining that the last several books you've read weren't any good. Have you tried Plastic, Prism, Void? No? Too bad, bitch. We sold out.
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 9h agoI told you all to buy it when you could, but you didn't believe me. Now look. You have to wait a month. This is your own fault.
Read this thread! Karen Green is a treasure
Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 9h agoKaren Green is the Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University, a living legend whose career is a firm attestation of the importance of comics archives and the quintessential role that any one person can make on a field through archival work. #comicsstudies 1/7
In 2014, Columbia alum and accomplished comics scholar (and cartoonist) Nick Sousanis published “A Life in Comics” a brief biographical comic that celebrates Green’s professional accomplishments as well as the personal passion that ushered them onward. 7/7
A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green
How a Butler librarian became Columbia’s first curator for comics and cartoons.
magazine.columbia.edu
I'll say this, Larys was right about Aegon - he is a terrible person. But he has a great revenge story #HotD
I don’t think you ever get over seeing a book you wrote sitting on library shelves & bookstore shelves 🥹😁 I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy written by myself, illustrated by Lorraine Nam 🐧 📖
i do get the handwringing about how academia relates to the public, but fundamentally, any proposal that involves academics not saying what they earnestly believe, even and especially when it is at variance from public opinion is a nonstarter for me
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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