Winnie the Pooh and Piglet sit on a log and talk. "What day is today?" asked Pooh. "It's the day we burn this motherfucker to the ground," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh
anyway!
How do we understand atrocities in a post-war crimes era? What is a crime against humanity in a post-truth era? What is seeing all of this murder doing to us, and are we becoming desensitized to the bombing of schools and hospitals? I don’t know how to process any of this stuff!
Is calling something a war crime still a meaningful thing? Like, I am seeing reports about white phosphorus being used in civilian areas and my first thought is “you can’t do that; it’s a war crime.” But my second thought is “nobody involved will ever face any meaningful consequences.”
Amazing. The one gift I received from my mother was a copy of Tracy Chapman’s debut album. Her studio album is great but she was always better live. Every time I hear her singing live, I am reminded of my mother’s beautiful, thick voice
I have page proofs for my forthcoming article on listing to poetry by Indigenous women from Winnipeg (Wînipêk). It will be published in Canadian Literature
Black Studies announcement
I’m giving a talk at @umanitoba.bsky.social called “An Introduction to Black Love Poems” on Tuesday at noon in UMSU
While I do not in any way support the regime in Iran, I am deeply saddened that America and Israel are engaging in illegal strikes against the people of Iran that will murder civilians. Kinetic wars that endanger the lives of civilians should be a last resort, not a negotiation tactic
🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism!
Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...
These are such beautiful thoughts. I love the idea of being a scholar even when we don’t have access to the traditional tools and institutions of scholarship
I still really love it. Honestly, the Alabama UP team has just been wonderful to work with this entire process
TT job in Native Studies, Brandon U: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
I always thought the hardest part of being an academic would be learning how to deal with failure. I was wrong. The hardest part of being an academic is waiting for news
I think about this all the time. A whole generation of BIPOC scholars got pushed out of the academy when these horrible white men were getting jobs based on apparent merit. I think we really need to rethink the hiring practices that gave dudes like this prestigious jobs
Is it bad that Trump’s overreacting makes me love the Bad Bunny performance more?
My first book, Clothed Villainy: Acting White in Early Modern Drama, is now available for preorder and it has a beautiful cover that I absolutely adore: www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0817...
This sonnet was so much fun to write. It’s in This Elegance and thank you to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for originally publishing it 💜
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
We really need to talk more about pain and academic life. This job is a lot harder when you’re in pain
Look, I just want to see one rich and powerful person face earthly consequences for committing an unforgivable crime.
I can’t help but notice that these are mostly white men. I feel like privilege is essential to the story
Is it possible that the same actor who played Aaron in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus may have played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet? I am asking because I think Mercutio may be an unmarked Black character
This just broke me. No family with a kidnapped five year old child should have to depend on Go Fund Me for proper legal representation. At some point the cruelty has to stop
THIS WEEK! Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is in-person in Tempe and online. Check out the program for schedule and more information on our speakers: asuevents.asu.edu/event/love-r...
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Is it 25th Amendment time yet?
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
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I’m so confused. Why are you declaring yourself so much younger than Taylor Swift? Also, she is kind of engaged. Are you ending her engagement to a professional footballer player by decree, or are you suggesting a thrupple? I think she might go for it, but I am not sure Travis would be into sharing
This is honestly just weird. Is the implication that he will back her for the presidency of Venusiana if she gives him her prize?
