katherine mckittrick
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social
sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
…tonight at Osler Records we launch the reissues of She Tries and Looking by nourbeSe philip. come early, buy a book, get a free copy of Smile while supplies last! ✌🏾🥂🎶
Good essay on chatbots, philosophy, theology and humanity “But I didn’t want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about addiction and dehumanisation, about power and accountability. “
Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 2w agoGood morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights via giftlink. First this week theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey explains why she declined to help Anthropic with Claude's moral schooling as.ft.com/r/15d7fd75-a...
John Askew was a musical genius and a kind person. I wrote about him in From Infinite World. I hope you learn more about him from the book. wwnorton.com/books/978132... #JohnAskew #BlackGospelMusic #FromInfiniteWorld
We're extending our Solidarity Summer Sale until July 31st!
Mark Campbell talking about Black Studies, the archiving of hip hop culture, and centering blackness in that work #blackstudiespodcast #blackstudies Full episode: go.umd.edu/MarkCampbell
there’s so much terrible here, so little to listen to forever. I long for Leonard Cohen and Etta James and someone reading me Pale Fire before bed.
Reading books and owning books are not the same thing. But this article, partly cuz of its focus on influencers and celebrities, suggests as much but never mentions libraries. Reading books does not require owning books. We can be sexy without owning stuff, lol. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
The rise of the ‘hot literati’: how reading became sexy
Celebrities are hosting literary clubs and designers are launching products emblazoned with the classics – but does reading’s trendy turn have a darker side?
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@xroadproj.bsky.social Arts Fellow @ashoncrawley.bsky.social book about the Hammond Organ, the tragedy of AIDS, and the Black church is available for pre-order. Check out his Arts Fellow work on SPIRIT HOUSE: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org/crawley
From Infinite World
An innovative work that explores the relationship between the Black church, the Hammond organ, and the musicians that bring it to life., From Infinite World, The Sound of the Hammond Organ and the Tra...
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Natália Alves da Silva And I in Conversation! Get it at katherinemckittrick.com
Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.
what sound looks like (raw draft, coming soon)
(1) there is a good book by joy james called “Transcending the Talented Tenth.” I think about it a lot. she reminds us that scholarly stardom (oft masked as leadership) is flawed, that it reproduces inequities at the level of mentorship…
…celebrating 20 years of Demonic while loving music, writing, getting down, landing in the wrong place, reading reading reading and revising. thank you Muna, you are truly brilliant, a smart and thoughtful interlocutor and cherished music advisor. jcri.ca/index.php/CR...
"Inframetropolitan Systems: music as a mode of conjunctural analysis and cognitive mapping." If you're in London, check out these sessions -- supported by an Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grant -- on musical production, space and memory, sound and politics...
Book Review Forum — “Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings” by Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán — with contributions from @jamiepeck.bsky.social Danielle Purifoy @geogjosh.bsky.social Natasha Howard antipodeonline.org/2026/06/08/b... @nyupress.bsky.social
Inspiring! After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application Ahead of raucous planning meeting, chants of “fuck AI” filled Hamilton’s council chambers. City staff said 1,688 people submitted comments, a record. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application | CBC News
Hamilton’s Committee of Adjustment denied an application from Slate Asset Management to split up an industrial lot. The company has said it is considering building a data centre on part of it. Hundred...
cbc.ca
The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking Muna Dahir & Katherine McKittrick (no paywall) in GeoHumanities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
One of our co-authors, Dr. Samantha King, recently joined TVO for a conversation on GLP-1s, social media nutrition trends, and protein and fibre maxxing. Watch the interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzF2... @dukepress.bsky.social @therundowntvo.bsky.social #protein #fibre #socialmediatrends
