I watched the Odyssey and it made me think about what epics I'd recommend. Here's the list I compiled: substack.com/@heyitsaugus...
Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele
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Higher ed professional, scholar of contemporary African and diasporic literatures, Nigerian, Ohioan (+ a sprinkle of Masshole) 1/3 of @specsntexts.bsky.social https://lnk.bio/heyitsaugusta
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
This is part of a general cultural trend of defining resistance all the down until the bar is on the ground, so your favorite billionaire pop star, Ivy League academic, prestige TV writer, political pundit is actually a radical feminist thinker/ pro-Black freedom fighter /anticapitalist crusader.
Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele@heyitsaugusta.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is a very important assessment of the contemporary discourse around rest and resistance. Read it. Then go follow @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jennmjac...
This is a very important assessment of the contemporary discourse around rest and resistance. Read it. Then go follow @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jennmjac...
Rest is not resistance: Commodification, Capitalism, and the Cult of Self-Care
We have to start using words with intention if we are to fight the battle ahead.
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President Trump used to brag about all the money we were making from tariff revenue. Last month, that trend flipped to a $26 billion loss as the government started paying back the tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal. The refund bill is just getting started.
If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.
Ok, well I'm still writing. Check out my thoughts on why I love a messy family narrative and which books I'd recommend: open.substack.com/pub/heyitsau...
Why Messy Family Narratives Always Draw Me In
Why I like fiction about complicated families and which novels I'd recommend
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I have been meaning to read this book for ages. So, I'm very excited that the members of The African Lit Salon bookclub picked this one for July. I'm looking forward to seeing what's behind this gorgeous cover. Join us! fable.sng.link/Ali7l/etuk?_...
Lukaku coming on the field and scoring within seconds??! An absolute legend. My goodness
I'm never bored because there's always something to overthink about.
Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."
I am so confused by how often I get caught in "reply all" hell. Why can't y'all just send an email directly to the person you want to correspond with?!?
a woman in a white jacket is asking " now why am i in it "
Alt: A GIF of Nene Leakes during a reunion show for her Real Housewives season. She is in a white jacket, asking, "now why am i in it?" while looking off to her right at someone outside the frame. The words appear at the bottom of the GIF
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It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...
Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies | Fortune
Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as technology in the classroom is turning out not to be the miracle solution it was sold as.
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This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.
Despite the caricature his critics created, Jesse Jackson’s “political vision was always inclusive, always multiracial, and always opposed to bigotry and prejudice of all kinds,” Adam Serwer argues.
Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson
He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.
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Last Wednesday, news broke that Prof Biodun Jeyifo, one of Nigeria's "brightest literary minds" (Vanguard NG) passed away in Ibadan at 80 years old. Just over a month before, he'd attended a symposium in his honor, at which he was able to hear and reflect on his impact in African Studies.
A "professor of civics education" at OSU's much ballyhooed intellectual diversity center (funded by McCarthyites, of course) punches documentarian who deigns to ask Gordon Gee a single question. The ironist who coded this simulation has no sense of subtlety.
Ohio State Chase Center professor placed on administrative leave after assaulting cameraman
The Ohio political blog, The Rooster, published video showing Chase Center Assistant Professor Luke Perez hitting a cameraman and then throwing him to the ground.
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I am devastated. I may have more words later, but for those of us who knew him personally, this loss hurts so much. www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainmen...
Renowned scholar Biodun Jeyifo dies at 80
The Nigerian Academy of Letters expressed condolences to his family and the academic community, describing his passing as a significant loss to literary scholarship in Nigeria and beyond.
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Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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