Elias Rodriques
@rodriquese.bsky.social
Repped by Jin Auh at Wylie. Novel, All the Water I've Seen is Running. Words in The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere.
sunday reading: on jazz musician Elmo Hope's time at Rikers @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Sounds from Rikers Island | Colin Asher
A bit more than three years into his exile from New York City, St. Elmo Sylvester Hope sat for an interview with Down Beat magazine in Los Angeles. He was a diminutive, softspoken man who looked like ...
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I wrote about the life of Harry Haywood and his newly republished book, Negro Liberation, for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Harry Haywood and the Radical Politics of Black Communism
For Haywood, a truly radical working-class politics in the United States also required a program of self-determination.
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Read this award-winning GLQ essay by the brilliant Ava Kim and rethink ideas of development. Freely available until May17th. #queertheory #transstudies #XXY #intersex
Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 6mo ago"The Future is Child's Play: A Travesti, Intersex Theory of Anti-Development," by Ava L.J. Kim, and published in GLQ 31:1, was recently awarded the Crompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article! The article has been made freely available through May 17: buff.ly/NGYbFqg
I'll be in conversation with Jarvis Givens about his new book, a history of Black History Month, on 2/19 at 7 PM; register here: bit.ly/MakeMeAWorld
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: I’ll Make Me A World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month Featuring Jarvis R. Givens. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about...
I’ll Make Me A World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month Featuring Jarvis R. Givens Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:00 PM (ET) | Virtual Event The African American Historical Society of Rockl...
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The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
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Andrea Ritchie@dreanyc123.bsky.social · 6mo agoLooking for a gorgeous customizable poster for today’s/this weekend’s actions? Check out downloadable and fillable versions of @monicatrinidad.bsky.social’s gorgeous art in @interruptcrim’s Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Read my new short story in @parisreview.bsky.social below
The Paris Review@parisreview.bsky.social · 8mo ago“And then Lala pulled something from her jacket and pressed it to the skin above Sleepy’s newly formed Adam’s apple. It glinted in the disco ball’s light. Sleepy let Waldy go.” From “Lala and Waldy” by Elias Rodriques in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/2GRWJTG
“And then Lala pulled something from her jacket and pressed it to the skin above Sleepy’s newly formed Adam’s apple. It glinted in the disco ball’s light. Sleepy let Waldy go.” From “Lala and Waldy” by Elias Rodriques in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/2GRWJTG
belated but I wrote about Glissant's theory of relation and Gayl Jones's Corregidora in Social Text. DM me for a PDF; link here: read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
“Nothing You Don't Want”: Consent in Glissant's Theory of Opacity and Gayl Jones's Corregidora
Abstract. In recent years, scholars have offered two different accounts of opacity's uses as counter to transparency's violence in Édouard Glissant's oeuvre. One group describes opacity as offering te...
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“Trump was—and is—intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent.” In n+1’s new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on the art that’s been censored by the Trump administration. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
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Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
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"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...
"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel
Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.
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“I had studied art and writing that was—and I mean this literally, fully aware of the irony, given the past decade’s hand-wringing over political correctness—canceled.” In n+1’s brand-new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on art and freedom under Trump. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
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I wrote about the cancellation of Andil Gosine's exhibit and art censorship under Trump for @nplusonemag.com. Read here: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
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n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social @liv-veazey.bsky.social @rodriquese.bsky.social @jacknorton.bsky.social @tricialockwood.bsky.social @lilyscherlis.bsky.social . . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
Issue 51
Content filed under the Issue 51 taxonomy.
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I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin’s Radical Politics of Love
While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.
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I interviewed Imani Perry for @thenation.com about the color blue, the blues, and Black life www.thenation.com/article/cult...
“Blues People” and Black Life: A Conversation With Imani Perry
We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people.
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I wrote about Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung's film on Ladoo, and more for SX Salon. Read here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
A More Unknowable Past
In The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung’s documentary on the titular Trinidadian novelist, two interviewees cry. One is Peter Such, the Canadian novelist who mentored Ladoo and helped him ga...
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"So the question for a writer like me is always, “What am I writing into? What am I writing over?” Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it." @thenation.com
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
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"So the question for a writer like me is always, 'What am I writing into? What am I writing over?' Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it." -- Dionne Brand via @thenation.com
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
thenation.com
I interviewed Dionne Brand for @thenation.com. Read for a discussion of the English novel, an alternative tradition, and more www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
thenation.com