Anthony Reed
@blackpoetics.bsky.social
Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things. Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening. Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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"If [liberation] were only about consciousness [raising], we would be in power now... How do we incorporate [our] insights about what we already know about building collective forms [and power]?" - Angela Davis @socialismconference.org
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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Folk wisdom: make time for yourself and the things that are important to you! Me: *tries to get some work done before opening my email, between tending to children and teaching* Dog: Rouses herself from a deep sleep and unceremoniously barfs on the rug, barks a bit, then returns to her nap.
🇳🇵 🇨🇳 ⚠️ The death toll from devastating Himalayan glacial floods crossed the grim 1,000 mark on Tuesday, as Chinese and Nepali teams searched for survivors including dozens feared trapped in hydropower tunnels ➡️ u.afp.com/SVBx
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Part 2 of a special issue from Jazz & Culture 9.1 on the legacy of pianist & educator Geri Allen is out. Contributors include Farah Jasmine Griffin ( @columbiauniversity.bsky.social ), Jessica Boykin-Settles ( @georgemasonu.bsky.social ), + more scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issu...
"We intend to build a system of higher education worthy of this country...That is not a partisan project… It is the unfinished work of American higher education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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absolutely horrendous. please consider helping in one of the ways suggested robindgkelley.substack.com/p/in-support...
In Support of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University ...
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This academic freedom, is it in the room with us right now?
I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.
Have to imagine it's a complete coincidence that the same outlets publishing one piece after another talking about how extremely dangerous and unacceptable the Left is are also laundering genocide and normalizing targeting of trans people while featuring puff pieces on Far Right fascists.
I can't stress this enough. This was their POLICY and PLAN. I've been saying it for months. I know that you all know this. I hope that the people who are losing their benefits understand too. Brooke Rollins et al have been saying that this is their desire and intention for months.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo agoPage One. @nytimes.com
I just had this conversarion with an editor yesterday. If you start hedging for imagined bad faith readers, you have stopped writing and started journaling a fan fic to them.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo agothere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2mo agothere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
It bears noting that Dr. Willoughby-Herard is also the co-editor of a forthcoming SUNY Press book & underscoring that amid and despite the actions of her uni she has never stopped giving and contributing to her colleagues, her field(s), & the pursuit/production of knowledge.
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2mo agoMutual aid request: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard continues to be cruelly punished by her uni for standing up on behalf of students and Palestinians. The Chancellor has now taken away her (and hence her kids’) health insurance. Please give if/as you can. Thank you, friends. chuffed.org/project/1562...
Yes. I might even go further. those demanding prison the loudest might be the most resistant to redistribution.
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 2mo agoIt is weird how many people are fine with jail, but get skittish when you start talking redistribution as repair. Like, people who are otherwise all about the possibility of transformative change & recognizing the need to *At Least* "reform" carceral punishment still shy from some of what that means
A whole lot of people, at every level, are acting like they’ll never go to prison for their actions, and they’re probably not wrong—bankrupting them up and down the org chart, though… leaving them no guy to turn to for a bailout, a new job, a new grift…
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.
I just realized, reading article proofs, I almost always use "speculatively" to mean something like "dialectically" (I credit/blame C. L. R. James) but these may not be a universal substitution.
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vijay iyer@vijayiyer.bsky.social · 2mo agoMeanwhile, here’s something far sweeter: Dafnis Prieto’s composition “Gently Trapped,” meant to conjure a tinier hell, perhaps. And let us bask in Henry Threadgill’s flute sound!!! The full album _Fifteen_ will be out August 21 on Nonesuch in all formats. Please enjoy. youtu.be/-27SnQ2zAPg?...
Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.
Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.
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U.S. troops aren’t supposed to be policing an American city just because the president thinks it’s enemy territory. There’s no reason for this guard deployment to Memphis and definitely no reason for them to be shooting or killing ANYONE there Out
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2mo agoDon’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...
have had some strange vibes from such men who are even deeply involved in work to curb police power but then use things like "and they can't even clear rape cases!" "look at the rape kit backlog!" to make their case.... though have no other interest in addressing rape or supporting survivors
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts
All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.
Mark Andrew Price@pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 2mo agoI don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.
2 years ago, Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was arrested at @ucirvine.bsky.social as UCI chose to repress its Palestine encampment & fail its constitutional obligations. Her disciplinary case now rests w/the Chancellor. Let's ensure he knows what's right, sign/share! sites.google.com/view/withdra...
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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My client Prof. Willoughby-Herard heroically stood up for students and was assaulted by cops. Then UCI tried to fire her. The Committee recommended unpaid suspension, but there should be no punishment for protecting students. Please sign and share to support her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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seeing more of a particular brand of aggro post lately ("if you weren't a coward you'd be doing xyz thing that would have you dead or in jail" from posters who appear to themselves neither be dead or in jail). could just be feds/bots/trolls trying to entrap people on here but a PSA just in case
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo agoyou're welcome to just do whatever hardcore shit you're implying other people should do
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
Anthony's Spinning Circles here too!@circlesspinning.bsky.social · 2mo agoMaga taking shelter in the National Museum of African-American History And Culture!
The reframed how I understood the "master's tools" quote by Lorde. Ruthie reminds us to pay attention to the apostrophe.
tamara nopper@tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2mo agoRuth Wilson Gilmore said, “The issue is not whether the master uses, or endorses the use of, some tool or another. Rather, who controls the conditions and the ends to which any tools are wielded? ... [Audre] Lorde proposes a decisive seizure whose strategy works toward multiple ends.”
Today at FOREVER WARS, we're publishing the sort of piece that I think makes us distinct. Like many of you, I watched the Belfast anti-Muslim anti-migrant pogroms in horror. I never heard about the Belfast that fought back. I learned that from my Belfastian friend Sarah Kay, who writes about it here
Confronting The Belfast Pogroms
Guest writer Sarah Kay reports on the community resistance to the anti-immigrant assaults in her beloved city—a solidarity overlooked by the media
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