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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Plan C stopped in front of LACMA and in East Hollywood over the weekend on their Community Road Trip to share that you can still order Plan B pills by mail, even in the 13 states that have completely banned abortion. Read the full story at: lataco.com/plan-c-abort... 🎥: Karina Soriano

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

issue #6 of Monkey, the mag of new translations of Japanese fiction, has a banger of a translation of the popular & creepy story "The Human Chair," by Edogawa Rampo, w fab translation by Jeffrey Angles. The translator's note clears up some wild glitches in the older translation--very recommended!!!

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MONKEY — MONKEY

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Would be great to see in translation, with an intro like Ryan Holmberg did with Bloody Stumps Samurai.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hosei University Press publishes "long lost" Tezuka manga from 1970 featuring a Zainichi Korean main character, with critical introduction. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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'Rediscovered' Osamu Tezuka manga tackles discrimination against Korean residents in Japan - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- A reissued edition of

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Rob @greaterhermit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Emit an ominous hum

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"

straitstimes.com

From PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?

Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

again, Palmer Luckey not beating the rap (of my free association patterns) of sounding like a sub-par and pathetic Phil K Dick character named most likely to get into a losing argument with his dishwasher.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

...and please no more requests from administration to juice the college rankings by contacting people at other institutions and talking about how great we are, in the hope they turn into transmitters of how great we are to said rankings engines. 🫤

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

media mail is of course good and cheap to anywhere, but the extra anti-frustration function of not having to plan to drive to the bookstore is so worth it. I love Skylight, and Los Feliz, but the traffic and parking can be a real time hog. Plus they are super nice and respond to email on a dime.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

LA folks, in this season of bookbuying, Skylight is an excellent bet. Their Friends w Benefits program is $55 for 2 years. It gets you 10%+ off books, all the media-mailed books you can eat, & no need to drive yourself nuts by parking in Los Feliz. It's good to be located across the st from the PO!

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The procurement process is a real weight too. No longer can you go to a big box store and buy a laptop on sale, at a significant discount (w research $), and put your own software on. You have to buy it through a lavishly expensive contractor, through IT whose priority is security software. Madness.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah, for some reason, rookie mistake! I was referred by someone I know well to referee a grad article. should have asked/looked at their policy first, ugh. what a waste of time.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OMG, I got to the end of the article that made me realize why I hate this style, and it said, at the very end, that it was written "structurally" with AI!!! Advisors, don't let your babies do this!

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wanna see you read that motherf*ckin poem! Drench me in language, tippy-toe through the stanzas, pause and assess the whoa-ness of it all--interject, object. Read the thing, the evidence, the material you are working through. Show, don't just tell, tho your own telling is important, as well.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's just super vague, and can be claimed after reading a bunch of summaries. Among the things run over--periodization, local contexts, definitions of concepts, scholarly arguments and holes. It's just so authoritative it says both nothing and offloads all the follow-up work to a reader or editor.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finally put my finger on why I hate "social sciences" type citation, as the tendency it allows is amped by AI citation practices. Ex: "Consumer culture and food have been embroiled in colonial practices of exploitation since the 1700s" (Mintz). OK, maybe. But this sounds just like book cover copy.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am again struck at the number of Noh plays about human trafficking. Today's find, Jinen koji, is about a girl (boy) who brings a kimono to a temple to get it blessed, unravelling the story. Hagoromo is also like this, with a feathered cloak as stolen passport of a celestial being. Heartbreaking.

the-noh.com

Noh Plays DataBase : Jinen-Koji : Synopsis and Highlight

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Weird list but someone managed to get DuBois, Toni Morrison & Frederick Douglass in with Faulkner and William James. Varieties of Religious Experience, The Bluest Eye & What to the Slave is the 4th of July is an impressionistic combo, but does put into relief the arc & subtext of the bulk of list.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excellent question about pension funds, some of which are genuinely massive, like the UC system. The 2016 UC revisions suggest revision downward is very much a possibility. Relevant to people who want to retire, at some point, and live on those funds, and keep the job security for younger folks.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

““Me sometimes think me went in on wrong thing. Instead of cookie, maybe me should have studied business management, like Matt. Me would still have job. But then me would have to fire everyone. And me would never do that. B/c me Cookie Monster, not actual monster.”

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a "shirt that was either seersucker or unironed." 💀 Can you imagine sitting across from an older man, who may be connected to people whom you, instrumentally, want to vote for you, and confessing that, actually, I don't know about you [singular or plural] and I don't care, and I'm OK with that?

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The other week I ate a bag of chicken-flavored squid chips from Japan. What does that say about the times we live in? I wrote about that for @flaminghydra.com, in which I argue that it is time to consider the postmodern potato chip at the end of history

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Consider the Postmodern Potato Chip at the End of History

The other week, my partner brought back a bag of crunchy squid snacks from Japan, a gift from a colleague who had recently traveled to Tokyo. It was good enough that we looked it up after we were done...

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In reality, people submit a lot of apps, and granular reading of tons of scholars' work is time-consuming. But the genre I'm seeing doesn't really give clues about how the grad student sees themselves in terms of a project, a critical genealogy, methods. The stakes of the project are lost in praise.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the shift in the genre of the app essay I am seeing is this: not just a name-check (I see my work in synch with X person) to potted summaries of the entire corpus in very generic terms (your work on filmic space & activism), which could mean a lot of things, but doesn't touch on anything concrete.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

getting multiple requests to "put your name on my application" from PhD applicants, with vague AI-ish descriptions of my work. Fine, not great, proposals, consistent wording, mostly Chinese scholars with MAs in the UK. Is this advice on packaging coming from somewhere? No need to ask, just do it!

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 29/09/2026

Are you applying for a short-term research grant in the history of Japanese sexualities? If so, it's time to put the finishing touches on your work and hit submit! All materials must be received by AAS no later than 5pm ET on October 1. bit.ly/AASgrants

48 hours left to apply for the Short-Term Research Grant on Japanese Sexualities history honoring Mark McLelland, deadline October 1, 2026.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sianne Ngai, a literary scholar, talks about the winning combo of tenderness and aggression here. Not sure if it was popular elsewhere, but in JPN pop culture studies this one flew off the ehelf. (I did not have to log in to anything, FWIW.) www.jstor.org/stable/41058...

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Client Challenge

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

anthropologist Christine Yano wrote a great piece on "sado-cute," strategic cute users, and more here. www.jstor.org/stable/20619.... (I didn't have to log in to anything.) Her piece and analytic does not fall for the kind of soft Orientalism that Muse and others are peddling.

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Client Challenge

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if only Muse had stolen from the right people, like Christine Yano or Sianne Ngai, who will tell you, in print, that half the meaning of "cute" is its aggression. And the Muse icon is so much closer to kitsch than cute that it is like, right train, wrong track.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The books were The Houseguest, by Mexican writer Amparo Davila and They by Danish writer Helle Helle. Upcoming, a Polish writer...

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I joined a fiction-in-translation book club in my part of town. It's been geeat to meet curious, interesting readers out in the wild, and read great stuff I've never run across. A version of touch grass I suppose, since grass is not so great a thing in these parts, existing mostly at the Americana.

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I heard an interview with him (Emanuel) on the radio yesterday with that New Yorker guy who was working overtime to humanize him, and "rage" with a "that was then, this is now" framework. Left with the impression that the ghostwriter was doing a lot of the heavy lifting of humanizing.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oof. Also the "first overview" of Oxman's work is a book written by...Oxman? Looks kinda like vanity press material, what's going on at the Press?

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

fascinating story by Frank Shyong about how geo-tagging led to an excavation of immigration history's twining with ag history--and a new cartography, also read by factoring in regulation, i.e. dispossession from LA-area land followed by the ban on "truck farming" after WW2 (only v recently ended).

frankbear.substack.com

Japanese celery grows wild in Venice Beach

It’s likely an agricultural escapee from an era of Japanese American farming

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Nature found more than 30 press releases published by leading universities, including Columbia, celebrating their faculty members’ achievements at two of these organizations, the EAE and the NAAI."

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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

apparently there are so many science scam orgs, and scientists fall for them so often, that Michigan has a whole Director of Faculty Honorifics, to sort out the real from the fake star systems, lol.

nature.com

Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/09/2026

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EDUCATION
UCLA's 'excessive' response to anti-war encampments chilled student activism, report says

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A new report from the ACLU and Amnesty International USA says universities like the University of California, Los Angeles violated free speech laws and imposed severe punishments on students, faculty and staff who expressed support for Palestinian rights.
The universities' responses "made it easier for the Trump administration to crack down on student activism, causing long-term damage to higher education."

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 24/09/2026

Chad Bianco- part of the “Constitutional Sheriff” movement- was roundly defeated in court today. Court ruled that he had no authority to confiscate 650,000 ballots.

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