Feel like the email has increased tenfold since August started.
William Orchard
@billeo.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
New graphic adaptation of Julia Alvarez's In the Time of Butterflies.
New graphic adaptation of Julia Alvarez's In the Time of Butterflies.
yale american studies is searching for a colleague (open rank) in 19th or 20th c. u.s. cultural history & cultural studies #job #americanstudies #culturalstudies apply.interfolio.com/188467
And therefore even more likely to occur. Evil. Just pure tee evil.
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d agoDepartment of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids The lack of data collection will leave harm to the children left unreported. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/depa...
A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
thecityreporter.nyc
This August, pick up "Captive Ecologies" by @femmenoire.bsky.social, which makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, along with many other great new titles. buff.ly/4hqz3v7
It really really really bugs me how many people simply do not understand what it means when the government tries to convict you even IF THEY FAIL TO DO IT. Do you know how many thousands of dollars in legal fees it costs? You will most likely lose your job. You might lose your home.
35 delightful images from the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards www.popsci.com/environment/...
35 delightful images from the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards
From dogs defying gravity to prim and proper cats.
popsci.com
In a recent interview, Dr. Johanna Fernández details her political genealogy. She notes that her mentor, Dr. Manning Marable, encouraged her to write a history of the Young Lords. Both Dr. Fernández and Dr. Marable gone too soon. bcrw.barnard.edu/political-or...
Political Origins: An Interview with Johanna Fernández | Barnard Center for Research on Women
At the end of May, BCRW hosted its first Feminist Freedom School on the subject of feminist abolition. The Freedom School was facilitated by Sarah Haley, Associate Professor of History at Columbia…
bcrw.barnard.edu
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
The huge publicity in NYC from media-amplified whining wealthy homeowners with second homes saying they are middle class victims of the pied a terre tax makes 3/4ths of this city eye roll and identify with the Mayor and his agenda. He looks hard core, standing up to powers that be.
Josh T Franco's "Marfa, Marfa" examines the minimalist frameworks and aesthetic paradigms that artist Donald Judd brought to Marfa, Texas, now a famous art-pilgrimage site, and their intersection with Marfa’s local Chicanx and Mexican American communities. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/qKNw6W4
Britain as a whole has to get over the idea that mowed grass lawns everywhere is a good thing.
Skionar@skionar.bsky.social · 6d agoOrchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.
"Modern American poetry, she argues, reasons inductively rather than deductively, moving from particulars towards provisional generalities rather than letting a governing intuition shine through it." Sneha Chowdhury on Johanna Winant's Lyric Logic: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/sneha_chowdh...
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
Johanna Fernandez was one of the fiercest voices for justice whether around the world or at CUNY. Her book on the Young Lords was one of the best books ever written on the Black and Latinx Freedom Struggle. She will be dearly missed. Rest in power, my friend.
Bobby Rivera@bobbyrivera21.bsky.social · 5d agoJohanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔
I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.
So wonderful to see this appreciation of my colleague @davidharvey.org latest book on Marx. I'm frankly in awe of his scholarship and thankful that he has the good sense to support #LCF! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
David Harvey’s Masterclass in Marx
The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.
newrepublic.com
Today is my birthday and Nocturnos won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material! 😱 Thanks so much for the photo @fantagrothics Thanks @eisnerawards, what a special day! Thanks @fantagraphics for believing in my stories, and thank you @astiberri_ediciones!
Happy Birthday Emily Bronte, born #onthisday 30th July 1818, in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England #writers and Kate Bush (1958) composer of the song inspired by the novel.
I liked Nolan‘s Odyssey and found aspects problematic. I liked Emily Wilson’s takedown and found aspects problemaric. I liked Joyce Carole Oates’ takedown of Emily Wilson’s takedown of Nolan’s Odyssey and found aspects problematic. I liked (wake me when the next dagger is dropped thru the ceiling)
Great reporting from our student journalists at the Duke Chronicle on increases for the most highly paid Duke employees in the wake of unnecessary massive layoffs: www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
As cost-cutting began, Duke’s highest-paid employees took big raises
Tax filings reveal administrators, including President Vincent Price and Provost Alex Gallimore, saw their compensation rise in fiscal year 2025. Managers of Duke’s endowment and standout athletics co...
dukechronicle.com