So, I joined Antoinette Sarpong, host of the Culture Alchemy podcast, at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social to explore why science fiction continues to resonate across generations—and what our love of the genre reveals about us. Watch the episode here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=foFs...

Why We Need Sci Fi More Than Ever Right Now

YouTube video by Culture Alchemy

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“A relationship built on your subjugation cannot survive your liberation. It will fight you for its very survival. … And if that is the truth then so is this: if we are to survive, the system must die.” - Ijeoma Oluo open.substack.com/pub/ijeomaol...

Do Not Give In To The Temptation of Respectability

It comes for us all.

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AS THE EARTH DREAMS is nominated for an Ignyte Award!!! Thank you so much to the Ignyte Team for this honor!!

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works are (this is going to be a long one): Detailed contributors on the following slides, but congratulations to @seraph76.bsky.social for Call and Response

A thoughtful and thorough review of Climate Imagination, a collection that features my essay, “A Case for Reckless Climate Optimism” is in Strange Horizons. Read it here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

Climate Imagination is its own eclectic assortment of puzzle pieces.

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In her new book, @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social describes misogynior, a term coined by Moya Bailey, as “…the loathing that is uniquely experienced by Black women and girls on the basis of their intersectional identities as both Black and female.” That kind of broke me, tbh.

I’m reading @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social’s Black. Single. Mother. And it’s breaking my heart to see so many beliefs that I’ve never fully interrogated given voice.

Me, to me: "Krystal, just because you read a name as ethnic, when they turn out to be in a melanin deficit, that does not mean they have committed fraud against you, despite how much it may feel like that to you, in your bones, along your spine, all the way down to the depths of your entire soul!" 🤡

If you havent already, you can preorder my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY from B&N at 25% off using PREORDER25. Assassins. Aliens. Ancestors. This is a book I've been working on for close to 15 years & is something special. Cant wait for yall to read it. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fist-o...

This encapsulates my entire philosophy: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate

It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...

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I am a proud recipient of an @ontarioarts.bsky.social grant and I couldn’t be happier! It’s an amazing feeling to live in a place where the arts are recognized as something deserving funding for its own sake. This is a view under threat in many places. Let’s continue to keep the arts alive!

I was on The Rundown on TVO this evening talking about imagination and resistance. Check out a clip and go catch the rest of the show: www.instagram.com/reel/DUogtSR...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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In order to really understand racism, it's necessary to understand the origins of racism. The trope that "racism is universal and natural" is pseudoscience PROPAGANDA. Blood quantum, the act of measuring racial ancestry in percentiles, is also propaganda. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory...

A Prehistory of Scientific Racism

The author of “Whiteness” traces the evolution of race as a social and political instrument, from its beginnings in ancient hierarchies through European colonial expansion and into contemporary times.

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A collection I edited, African Ghost Stories, has been named one of the 100 Notable African Books of 2024. Check out the rest of the amazing list here: brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...

“All … instances of systemic racism have their roots in the legacies of European colonial domination and the racist ideologies on which they were built. This era … saw atrocities … from the erasure of Indigenous populations to the transatlantic slave trade.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Sixty years ago, the world tried to stop racial discrimination and failed

Decades after the passing of the UN convention on the elimination of discrimination, systemic racism is still rampant.

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My Essay, “The Case for Reckless Climate Optimism” is now available in Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures, published by MIT Press and the Center for Science and the Imagination. Get your copy at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255366...

Climate Imagination

When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a sign...

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Corporate landlords are driving gentrification by deliberately targeting Black and other racialized neighbourhoods across Canada. breachmedia.ca/financialize...

Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach

New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents

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This is going to be great! Our understanding is that Brandon is going to share a secret family recipe! TUNE IN!

Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only)@brandoncrilly.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In two days! Join me, @valerievaldes.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @gregoryawilson.com as we dive into how Canadian vs American authors are navigating economic and political uncertainty, staying connected across the border, and more. 9 pm EST on www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron #Booksky

Thrilled to announce that I’m one of the four winners of the Morland Writing Scholarship for 2025. Thank you to the judges; I’m so deeply honoured! And congratulations to fellow winners: Monique Kwachou, Adeola Opeyemi, and Carlo Saio! milesmorlandfoundation.com/morland-writ...

So there’s a particularly pernicious form of racist microaggression that recently came to my attention. One where white people will see a black person - particularly a black woman - in distress in public and refuse to help them or even acknowledge them.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 10mo ago

Absolutely heinous.

Tonight, from 6PM - 7PM ET, I’ll be part of Word on the Street’s annual "Creating Time & Space to Write" workshop, an online panel where I’ll be joining fellow writers to talk about how we get our work done. Registration is here: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-wo...

This anthology looks amazing: As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, ed @teresempierre.bsky.social, the author of Myth (both @houseofanansi.bsky.social‬). Available for pre-order, out in October! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books‬‬‬‬‬ ... a 🧵 1/12

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

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From June 23rd to August 7th the University of Guelph’s Zavitz Art Gallery is hosting Manufactured Ecosystems, an immersive exhibition that explores speculative futures where art and technology converge to address the climate crisis. Do check it out! www.manufacturedecosystems.com/press-release

So excited to announce that my latest short story will be featured in the Black Canadian spec fic anthology, 'As The Earth Dreams', edited by Terese Pierre. Published by House of Anansi Press, it’s coming out in October. The lineup is stacked, y’all! I can’t wait! houseofanansi.com/collections/...

As the Earth Dreams

A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. This bold and innovative anthology of speculative short ficti...

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Facebook is taking down this story, but you need to hear it: youtu.be/8uutscijGdQ

"Point-Blank": Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics & Rescue Workers, Bury in Unmarked Mass Grave

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Profiles in non courage www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘The Terror Is Real’: An Appalled Tech Industry Is Scared to Criticize Elon Musk

A huge swath of Silicon Valley is horrified by what Elon Musk is doing — but they’re increasingly afraid to say so.

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