Katherine McKittrick

this book! ✌🏾🎶💕

Dispatches from Beirut Courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.

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Reading Capital Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx

Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

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Thank you MK!

…this arrived and it’s thick!

Left of Black | Erica R. Edwards on Black Women and U.S. Empire YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.

Erica Edwards joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire' (@nyupress.bsky.social)

#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory
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don’t be curious

Kimberly Blockett - Department of Africana Studies, University of Delaware Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · February 25 · 47m

Listen in as Kimberly Blockett discusses literature, gender, and the history of religion in a Black Studies context. Amazing conversation, here or most streams: go.umd.edu/KimberlyBloc...

Two wonderful review of A Smile Split by the Stars. Many thanks Lucy Sternbach and Zoe Imani Sharpe!

Sternbach in The Offing: theoffingmag.com/art/i-worrie...

Sharpe in C Magazine: cmagazine.com/articles/a-s...

A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social.

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

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It’s reading week muthafuckas! And I’m all over it! 📖✌🏾💕🎶

Policing as Un‐Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe The nexus of racism and policing has gained much political attention in Europe since the 2020 mass protests that followed the uprisings after the murder of George Floyd in the US. While many protesto...

New #OpenAccess article by @vethompson.bsky.social -- "Policing as Un-Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe" doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Against the grain: Deep reading as abolitionist praxis in education On the matter of reading techniques and citational politics, there is a way of reading, even in progressive circles, that prioritizes extraction, recitation, liberal individualism, and attendant ca...

@demonicgrounds.bsky.social Hey, happy new(ish) year, Katherine! Did you see this article about "deep reading as praxis" and Ida B. Wells-Barnett that takes as a point of departure your analysis of reading?

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Thank you! I’ve not seen this! ✌🏾💕🎶

At AAG Detroit in 2025, Dr. LaToya Eaves was in dialogue with Drs. Katherine McKittrick, Willie Jamaal Wright, and Kevin Grove about the pathbreaking book, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.

@spacedemands.bsky.social @blackgeographies.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

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Their discussion, “A conversation on Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods (eds), Black Geographies and the Politics of Place” has been published in Progress in Human Geography.

Read it at the 🔗 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📸 : Rosemary Ayelazuno (UTK Geog alumna!)

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi, The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick, Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, and Directed by Desire by June Jordan

Some more faves for #BlackHistoryMonth

so jazzed to be in conversation with these smarties! take a look in the same place where most of my writings can be found (katherinemckittrick.com)

Fin!

Mina crushes.

It is not translated and getting the author’s permission (if it will be published) proves difficult for most of her writings. Good luck! ✌🏾🎶

Beyond the Kumbla is out from Africa World Press. It includes the full unabridged long version of Sylvia Wynter’s “Beyond Miranda’s Meanings.” I’m jazzed and grateful to have an essay on SW’s piece in this collection.

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and wo...

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social
#geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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Memory of Winter – Zoë Schlanger When is the right time to bring new life into the world? Journalist Zoë Schlanger explores how the moment of spring emergence is increasingly the biggest gamble of a plant’s life amid unpredictable fr...

“What the garlic would need to send up its contribution to spring flamboyance… is precisely this long period of cold. This requirement is called the ‘memory of winter,’ or, more scientifically, ‘vernalization.’ Apples and almonds and peach trees won’t flower without the memory of winter either...”