Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Go see Chanda speak! A once in a lifetime scholar and intellectual. @chanda.blacksky.app doing the JOCs proud.

You can’t make it up

Girl!!! Can’t wait to read.

Hashtag #theleft

Just so stupid

Love love your work Chris!

These mother—

Same

This looks amazing!

When they come for Tim Hortons, you’ll know that war with Canada is imminent

Let’s read each other’s books and call it day!

Atrocity | Stanford University Press Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.

@brucerobbins.bsky.social at Columbia won the prize for his book Atrocity!

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Deviant Matter Winner, 2025 Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, given by the American Studies Association's Q/T Caucus and the Modern Language Association's GLQ CaucusHow devian...

I found out last night that Deviant Matter got honorable mention for monograph at the American Comparative Literature Association. The Rene Wellek was a dream of mine because Lauren Berlant won it in 2013 for Cruel Optimism and it is the scaffolding for DM. I miss her.

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We will never wash ourselves of these sins against the planet and its inhabitants

Buffalo is a refugee resettlement site and a city eternally recovering from economic neglect and the fallout of segregation and indigenous displacement. People are so vulnerable they die during weather crises. This is a sin.

*also

I talk about it in my jelly chapter. All Denise Gigante did this work quite a while ago as well

Eating:Aesthetics as Disgust:Taste —> “we’re not so different you and I” etc.

Etc etc the usual deconstructive opposites attract etc etc

Derrida has this great meditation on taste viz Kant, in his essay “economimesis.” In it, Derrida argues that eating is at the heart of the discourse of aesthetics but in particular “dégustation” or eating is intricately tied to “dégoût” or disgust.

If you taste, you are sampling. If you are sampling, you are exercising judgment, and appreciation. If you are tasting, you are in control of your appetite, or suppressing them. Also, it’s not driven by need.

in part because to taste is the opposite of gorging, which is more base but also the result of hunger.

Oh boy where to start

Correct

Unions are how we save post secondary education. Right now.

Scorpion

Astrid; except for the main cop the others are Moroccan and Arab

Elementary

Ummmm let’s have a contest to name them: