I'm going to keep posting this by @blacklikewho.bsky.social because i think its analyses are right on. It is urgent and brilliant. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

The university is the crisis

The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...

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"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.

The university is the crisis

The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...

canadiandimension.com

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Funny how the anti-Asian bit of Galliano's infamous rant gets forgotten... ❤️ Robin Givhan 'I am desperate for our cultural institutions to have an intellectual spine at a time when the political currents are eroding access to terrible truths & our ability to sit w anger & pain' archive.ph/31htr

2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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This zine, No One's Illegal on Stolen Land (1988-2026), focuses on Indigenous peoples and (other) non-white migrants, rather than on white activists. historykeepshappening.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Fresh off WorldCon, I'm sharing this new podcast interview I just did with Patrick D'Silva for Worlds Beyond Worlds! Everything is #StarTrek and Black speculative thought. We also talked about what it's like to see your field of expertise represented in pop culture #SFF #Audiofuturism #Afrofuturism

andré carrington@andrecarrington.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy Friday! I'm here to share the latest episode of the Worlds Beyond Worlds podcast! I talked with Patrick D'Silva about American Studies, Black speculative fiction, disidentification, Star Trek, and what I'm reading! #SFF #Audiofuturism #Afrofuturism @fordhampress.bsky.social

A few people expressed interest in the syllabus for my Infrastructure course. It's here. Extraction syllabus coming tomorrow. drive.google.com/file/d/1O50R...

Support a volunteer-run community center in Gaza City. The latest? University & English prep courses for students and more! Hit “weekly” or “monthly” on a five as reliable help for displaced youth studying, working online, & more. This isn't moving. 14/300 by Sunday: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Publication day!! 🎉 🪓🔪❤️

For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.

Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete

The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.

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New semester, new books! Check out all the great new titles we have coming out in September. dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/n...

We MUST stand with him... our duty continues! This is a survival & legal fund for a Palestinian student facing protracted state violence and dispossession. 28/250 by Sunday. Make it recurring! chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

I need to be offline for several hours. My health is concerning My account is still going down sometimes If I disappear, check @divshelp.bsky.social All goals listed here must be met linktr.ee/divyamp

Important to remember - Michael Gove is happy to hire a rich man just released from prison for attempted rape , and believes close Epstein friend Andrew Windsor should be left alone , but that black academics should be hounded

I’m proud that Simon Woolley is the principal of my old college. He’s done some fantastic things there. Gilligan’s article is trying to make something from nothing with a collection of sleights, old grudges, and nitpicks. What he and The Spectator are up to is obvious.

It feels like there’s a particular theme developing in the academics this magazine is targeting, but I can’t quite put my finger on it

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Burnout lasts years.

Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP, died on this day in 1900. Our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social explores McLagan's life and career, as well as the wider history of Black political participation in 19th century Britain.

Peter McLagan (1823-1900): Scotland’s first Black MP

This is the first article in a new series for the Victorian Commons on Peter McLagan (1823-1900), by Dr Martin Spychal, Senior Research Fellow on our House of

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This list gets longer the longer we let things stall... + The camps need help! + 5 hours left for Maha's rent! + Still matching for Retaj, why isn't this moving? + We didn't make the goal for Spark, Ahmed, or Circle last week! linktr.ee/divyamp

Fuck Google Maps. www.cnn.com/2026/08/30/p...

Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ in US searches | CNN Politics

Anyone in the United States looking to navigate to Lake Ontario on Google Maps can no longer find it as of this weekend.

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My book, which is currently on sale for $1.99 (ebook), is the @newscientist.com September book club selection! Some thoughts on the work I hope the book does: “Given the crises we face – genocides, climate change, attacks on transgender people – we need our critical faculties now more than ever.” 🧪

'Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world' | New Scientist

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much

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Olivia Rodrigo is a fuckin real one. $20m for women’s healthcare and she called all the artists herself to personally ask them to join.

Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields concert raising $20m for abortion care nonprofits (among others) while putting on an absolute banger of a show should be getting more play than it is in the millennial retirement home that is Bluesky

Give us entry-level TT positions! The work has been there, for decades. It‘s more necessary than ever. We have an army of contract instructors, highly qualified. They are burnt out, their careers have been stalled, and our research about writing has barely moved cuz the uni treats it as a hobby.

This report is totalitarian pseudo-science, aka corrupted science in the service of far-right authoritarianism. Who commits most of the political violence in this country has been clear for decades. It's not the left. It's not those of us who support trans rights and realities.

🧵 It’s great that we’re “attracting talent,” as they say, but where’s the half-billion $ to hire permanently the generations of beyond-excellent, Canadian-trained academics who have been forced into precarious positions by systematic defunding by federal & provincial gov’s for the past 30 years?

Why Ivy League professors are leaving Trump’s U.S. for Canada’s new $541-million research program

AI researchers, Ivy League professors, and at least one winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant will move to Canada from the U.S. with funds from the federal government’s research chair program.

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Asking your AI chat bot to “please roast” your perceived adversary is the most Loser Shit in the entire recorded history of humanity

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 4d ago

Elon Musk is using his company's AI chatbot, Grok, to attack Billie Eilish for living in a society, I guess.