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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Bassam Sidiki, Parasitic Empires: Infection, Insularity, Inter-Imperiality, 1880-2022 - The University of North Carolina Press, November 2026 uncpress.org/978146969725...

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Parasitic Empires

Real and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about geopolitical relations between two successive Anglophone emp...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"While Penn ultimately rejected the compact…the university has already adopted many of its proposals…the climate of fear [has] many opting to avoid engaging in controversial or left-coded material." newrepublic.com/article/2100...

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Teaching students to avoid "bothering" their teachers stops learning in its tracks, undercuts essential social development, and trains kids not to seek help (from people) when they need it. Its sole function is to enable higher student-teacher ratios. @aft.org promoting this is sick and sickening.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

You can now use promo code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30% when you pre-order the book!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

abject oriented ontology

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🚨: My new monograph ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA, 1926-2014 is available for preorder from OXFORD UP, with 30 percent discount.

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🦠 Cover reveal! 🦠 PARASITIC EMPIRES, forthcoming from @uncpress in Fall 2026. Please pre-order using this link: uncpress.org/978146969725...

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have a Spivak joke but I can’t speak it

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Brenda Shaughnessy

THE POETS ARE DYING

It seems impossible
they seemed immortal.

Where are they going
if not to their next poems?

Poems that, like lives, make do
and make that doing do more--

holding a jolt like a newborn,
a volta turning toward a god-load

of grief dumped from some heaven
where words rain down

and the poet is soaked. Cold
to the bone, we've become. Thick-

headed, death-bedded, heartsick.
Poets. Flowers picked, candles wicked,

forgiving everyone they tricked.

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This issue has my review of Abigail Boucher wonderful new monograph, “Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction.”

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop: Call for Papers Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Blue poster with images of newspaper article headlines on problems faced by 'Harijans' marginalised castes regarding being 'stranded' at partition, not allowed to migrate, their evacuation, and townships for them.

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Jake gave me such useful feedback on this essay in its earlier stages. Thank you my friend!

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Having to change BlueSky account handle from super-bass because Nicki Minaj is now a fascist was not on my end of 2025 bingo card

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

he sees you when you’re sleeping: the santopticon

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Back from deactivation to reveal my headshot for book publicity. PARASITIC EMPIRES: INFECTION, INSULARITY, INTER-IMPERIALITY is now in production at UNC press.

South asian man in glasses, brown turtle neck and cognac leather jacket holding an apple

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Essentially, what happened was that the inventors of poppers were like: how do we get non-queer folks to sustain the same level of brain damage? And so AI was born.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458 #poem #booksky #writing

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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

the fact that anyone in America can think this & feel comfortable saying it out loud represents a profound failure of public education— like, a breakdown at the systematic level

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is definitely what happened. Mad king behavior.

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

“But if what I’m after is the story, the vibe, the suspense, I might be justified in feeling that I’d ‘read’ the book. Certainly, I’d be unlikely to seek out the unabridged version.” Not to gatekeep or whatever but you have not, in fact, read the book.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

But A.I. can also simplify: if you’re struggling with the opening of “Bleak House,” you can ask for it to be rewritten using easier, more modern English. “Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy,” Dickens wrote. Claude takes a more direct path: “Gas lamps glow dimly through the fog at various spots throughout the streets, much like how the sun might appear to farmers working in misty fields.”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It’s been a bit since I shared this one, pub’d in Feb—A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US, from @sunypress.bsky.social. 794 pp of empirically grounded info, personal experiences, & trans history BY trans ppl, physicians & scholars. Now 30% off w/ code SPRIDE25. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...

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A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States
From Margins to Mainstream

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Any historians of the late British Empire on here? Can you suggest any sources on the of colonial governance in the 20s onwards? I read somewhere that with this retreat of the colonial state, private orgs took up the onus of services like public health. Does this sound right? Many thanks 🙏🏽

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Going to my first American Lit Association conference in May for a health/environmental humanities panel to speak about my ongoing work on Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and as I was researching more fiction on the Panama Canal I found that two historical novels about it came out in 2024 👀

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you are interested in: 🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st 🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian 🔹imperialism & its afterlives 🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration 🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The racist uber driver taking me from the NOLA airport to my airbnb was spewing the exact same nonsense. When I told him I’m from Austin but prefer Houston he was like “after Katrina all the Blacks [sic] went there and crime went up 400%.” My blood was boiling.

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Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Victorian women: Reader, I married him 21st century gays: