See my ACLA seminar on World Literature and the Global South below 👇 and repost please and thank you!
Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 4d agoCFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.
too many video game designers seem to think i want to pretend to be an angry white dude with a gun. honestly i miss q-bert.
My Uber driver tells me he fondly remembers his class with @profchander.bsky.social in 2011.
i would expand theocentric psychology to include rudy, vanessa, denise, and cassandra. huxtablecentric psychology.
jentrification@jentrification.com · 3d agosince that man gave Cheyenne a PhD in Theocentric Psychology, what made up field would you like a PhD in?
i chose my grad school because the local coffee shop served coffee in glasses rather than mugs, and it seemed so cultured and fanciful. hot glass, you may know, hurts your hands and so in practice that meant i was constantly burning myself with the future i had imagined for myself. apt.
mixing ritalin with ambien so it’s true when i tell you i could get that thing done in my sleep
saw weird al shooting pool at a bar in ann arbor once and star struck i called him mr yankovic
help me prove a point: the best weird al song is _____________
naming our dog after the guy from the blacklist so we can tell the vet we need to have our pet spader neutered
haven’t seen the movie but i assume it’s based on assassins creed odyssey
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
kiddo thought the paul simon song was called “50 ways to leave me alone” and now i wish it were
“slipped disc” makes it sound like they just need to slip it back in place. (this observation brought to you by nagging pain in my lower back)
we got the playstation for the kids but now i resent every time i have to stop so they can play
So excited to see this out! And just in time for the last round of edits on my book on slavery and ecology in the 18th/19th-century Atlantic world -- can't wait to dive in and listen for the echoes and afterlives @femmenoire.bsky.social #EnvHum
Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn "Captive Ecologies," Jennifer C. James @femmenoire.bsky.social makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, examining Black literature and art to trace the entanglements between racial capitalism and Black ecological freedom. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/I5cfkh8
i feel like the appeal of weezer is that anyone could be weezer. like no one could really be nirvana, many tried, but weezer leaned into being totally generic (in a not bad way).
every time we eat gulab jamun i sing 🎶we jamun🎶 and every time my family fails to appreciate my genius
reese's oreo: you asked for it! the folk: the fuck we did!
this is what social media is for imo
the corgi from cowboy bebop@realqrampage.fightins.online · 2w agoDick Blitzer and Wolf Wolf
i’m old enough to remember when appiah only misread du bois
when did every clothing brand start giving all its products names like “the winston” and “the giles” like they’re just picking from the graduating class of philips exeter
So you’re saying that it doesn’t matter how many times you’ve been burned, you are coming back for moore?
i dont care how many times a potential star at wr breaks my heart, i’m all in on dj moore. go bills.
apparently it was important for me to send myself an email at 2am about the difference between political self determination and birthright privilege just wish i understood what i wrote
