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🇵🇸 ✊🏾 (posts by Bhakti Shringarpure) https://radicalbookscollective.substack.com/

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Radical Books Collective@radicalbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him." -- Sherry Zane for @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/06/whos...

Who's afraid of Michael Jackson?

The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him.

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Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Watch Ainehi Edoro's excellent interview about her new book, FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK with Radical Books Collective. tinyurl.com/5cnr4u6p @radicalbooks.bsky.social @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Book Club: How African Novels Think with Ainehi Edoro

Join our live book discussion on Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think by Ainehi Edoro. Moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure. About the book Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel’s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities. About the author Ainehi Edoro is a Nigerian literary scholar who focuses on African literature and digital culture. She is the founding editor of Brittle Paper, a leading platform for African literary culture, and faculty of English and African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Buy the book here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/forest-imaginaries/9780231565073/

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Palestine Festival of Literature@palfest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Issue 003 of The Key has landed. We’ve got so much to share with you this week: 🔑 The first look at Molly Crabapple’s epic social history of the anti-Zionist Jewish Labour Bund, eleven years in the making. 🔑 A profile of one of the most innovative Palestinian rappers working today, Haykal. 1/2

The words "The Key" written out three times, one above the other, getting a little larger each time, in the colour orange. Then underneath it says Issue 003.Artwork postcard by Molly Crabapple featuring her illustration above an election flyer from Volkovsyk in 1938: “The Jewish masses must clearly and openly declare: We are not foreigners! We will not leave! We will fight for our freedom and rights, together with Polish workers and peasants. And if the Zionists … raise a hand to hinder our struggle, then we will kick them off the Jewish street.”
Radical Books Collective@radicalbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This powerful and truly lyrical novel came out one year ago. Not too late to dive into it. Essential reading about Uganda, war, gender and for African literature broadly. www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/remember-j...

Remember Joseph Kony?

We may have forgotten Kony but a new novel by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek urges against forgetting the victims and survivors who bore the brunt of his cruelties in northern Uganda.

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Radical Books Collective@radicalbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Michael Jackson, Palestine, and the Erasure of Solidarity" -- essay by Sherry Zane. How were the political positions of the most visible Black superstar on the planet strategically made invisible? www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/michael-ja...

Michael Jackson, Palestine, and the Erasure of Solidarity

In 1993, Michael Jackson penned a song for Palestine. But it was never recorded. Sherry Zane asks why and explores the policing of Jackson's politics.

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Radical Books Collective@radicalbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Abdallah Alkhatib in Berlin: "And one day, we will have a great film festival in the middle of Gaza, in the middle of other Palestinian cities....We will speak about politics before cinema. We will speak about resistance before art, about freedom, before duty, and about a human being before culture”

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Jonathan Stegall@jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Really good episode on how we got here, where we are, what to do. Never miss Harsha Walia’s words.

Radical Books Collective@radicalbooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"It’s not about abolishing ICE. It’s about abolishing the system and the power that ICE upholds.” -- @harshawalia.bsky.social #podcast on the history of ICE, border imperialism, settler colonialism, and normalization of violence towards migrants. open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

Radical Books Collective@radicalbooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"It’s not about abolishing ICE. It’s about abolishing the system and the power that ICE upholds.” -- @harshawalia.bsky.social #podcast on the history of ICE, border imperialism, settler colonialism, and normalization of violence towards migrants. open.substack.com/pub/radicalb...

"Border enforcement structure predates Trump.” - Harsha Walia

A conversation with Harsha Walia, author of "Border and Rule" on the history of ICE, border imperialism, settler colonialism, and normalization of violence towards migrants.

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