Jídé Salawu
@jidesalawu.bsky.social
Ọ̀gán. Member @FlamingHydra.com. Postdocing Toronto Metro. Uni.
Here is @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on the circumambient conditions in which the crimes at Cornell took place flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...
Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League
I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...
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With horrific residential school denialism, incl yesterday when white nationalists came to Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, let us all show up in a good way to honour Survivors on TRC Day Compilation of TRC gatherings in the lower mainland and resources for all ages www.weavingourworlds.ca/truth-and-re...
Truth and Reconciliation Day 2026
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed annually on September 30 to honour residential school survivors, their families, and the children who never returned home. TRC Day was establi...
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I was told before arriving that I would probably be a “sight” for the village...It did not occur to me—possibly because I am an American—that there could be people anywhere who had never seen a Negro. harpers.org/archive/1953...
Stranger in the Village, by James Baldwin
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My forthcoming book, The Jungles, (Out February 2) is full of revealing detail about the relationship between Monk and Coltrane, whose centenary is being observed now. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The Jungles
A hidden history of twentieth-century American modernity that begins in a once-dynamic Black neighborhood in New York City with Thelonious Monk as its guiding star., The Jungles, Thelonious Monk and t...
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A set of readings today whose propositions and moves always undo me. Among them Tayana Hardin's "The I Who Arrives" and Steffani Jemison's Drafts, Jennifer Nash's "Writing Black Beauty" and also Renee Gladman and Saidiya Hartman.
One more Dolly Parton article from me won’t hurt! Fun-damental! Thanks to the homies @flaminghydra.com. flaminghydra.com/issue-651/#d...
Fun-damental
One more bouquet for Dolly Parton, from Jídé Salawu
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ok did was anybody else feel very moved that someone in nigeria found dolly parton inspiring
Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · 3w agoTODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on Dolly Parton's impact on Nigeria (and elsewhere). "This simple book-mailing program could easily confront the moribund culture that has set in through the failed leadership of a corrupt, anti-book political class." flaminghydra.com/issue-651/?a...
TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on Dolly Parton's impact on Nigeria (and elsewhere). "This simple book-mailing program could easily confront the moribund culture that has set in through the failed leadership of a corrupt, anti-book political class." flaminghydra.com/issue-651/?a...
Fun-damental
One more bouquet for Dolly Parton, from Jídé Salawu
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There's a real Us and a real Them all over the world and to me this man is the real Us
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3w agoFriend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
We’re watching bones scuttle. Home scattering heirlooms. Bones. Filling our spas. Bones cutting the grass. Another. August. And still the war. Bones spreading the congress of crow’s beak. Bones shredding the upstairs. The screen door netting. brooklynrail.org/2026/02/poet...
from Bright Machine | The Brooklyn Rail
Canisia Lubrin is a writer, editor, teacher and the author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Voodoo Hypothesis, The World After Rain (2025) and Bright Machine (2026). Lubrin is the recipient of a Windham...
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Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
That's my name next to "Gawker Made Me a Communist," and if you'd like to read it in magazine form you can subscribe here flaminghydra.com/magazine-wor...
Jon Dowd, 7x NL MVP@crazy3mofo.bsky.social · 3w agoGot my @flaminghydra.com issue today. I feel smug as hell, need to go out and flaunt this exquisite piece of print!
JOB. York University Humanities Department Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities www.academicwork.ca/jobs/asst-pr...
Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities
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sometimes, some times: an evening of sound performance and poetry readings in English and Finnish by OLLI AARNI (Finland) and ELEE KRALJII GARDINER (Canada). Hosted and with an opening by KARIS SHEARER (Canada). Thurs Sep 10, 2026, 6-8pm, Enabling Arts, 343 Railway St, Ste 104, Vancouver, FREE
In Contraband Bodies, Salawu makes us see clearly that the poetry of bodies is the poetry of exile. As has become evident in contemporary poetry of exile, traces of the reasoning that even the journey to exile is itself a kind of condemnation are everywhere. afrocritik.com/jide-salawu-...
A Review of Jide Salawu’s “Contraband Bodies” - Afrocritik
Contraband Bodies challenges us to think about exile: that there is not much dignity in it, either within the places of origin or in exile itself....
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"The wings of their long dreams Are food for future squirrels. If they want to be girls Together, they can be girls." —Stephanie Burt, "Aubade" yalereview.org/article/step...
Stephanie Burt: "Aubade"
A poem by Stephanie Burt: "So this is that world, / Full of air, with two disks in the sky"
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Very sad to hear of Wendell Berry's passing. The Berry Center and his publisher Jack Shoemaker were very kind to me when I was seeking his permission to use his line "a three-dimensioned life;" (from his poem "How to be a Poet") in a cento for Unravel. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
How to Be a Poet
Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays,…
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I read some of Jason Arday's work over the last few days and studied the events leading up to his death a bit and wrote about it at @flaminghydra.com. I hope people will talk about this man and his career more and more, in years to come. r.i.p. flaminghydra.com/issue-632/
TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on tasting one’s roots. “As a migrant in the diaspora, maize is a gustatory and material memory in which the experience of home and belonging comes alive again.” flaminghydra.com/r/7484c93e?m...
Faraway taste
Jídé Salawu seeks out an elusive flavor
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I am looking forward to the publication of this book. Black Undertow by @riotousdeathscapes.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/black-undertow
Black Undertow
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