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Caleb Ward

@calebw.bsky.social
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The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde.... coming in 2027 Postdoc at Free University Berlin www.calebward.xyz Life is impermanent and so are reposts.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5h
Not for parasocial reasons but because some things become able to be said with a lot less explaining
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5h
Yes! I like a poem that arrives as a personal aside between the poet and the reader because our trust level has gotten to that point
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5h
I think it treats another person's agency in a morally objectionable way, but not because it undermines consent. But in order for me to flesh out this view, I'll have to finish this R&R on my desk right now!
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 17h
Some of these kids would rather torch their dilapidated school buildings than be confined in them without sufficient teachers, with crumbling infrastructure, no air conditioning. Can you blame them? The state has failed them and nobody takes seriously their concerns
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 17h
Criminalizing young people for wanting a different world will fail every. single. time.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 17h
Police shot a less lethal grenade at this child and it blew off his hand when he picked it up. That is fucking awful. Every attempt by the French education minister and his police to gaslight the world about what is happening here will fail.
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Hundreds of French schools shut, teen loses hand in protests
The student protests that rocked France last week have prompted authorities to keep up to 500 schools closed on Monday. A teenage boy lost his hand, seemingly while trying to pick up a police tear gas...
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 22h
Good to see that Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy now has an entry on Friedrich Engels plato.stanford.edu/entries/enge...
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Friedrich Engels (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This article looks really interesting. It's about how it can be oppressive to impose "counterfactual bodies" on disabled people by imagining them without their disability.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cosign all of this! They were so fabulous in this era!
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reason I don't like the "just human beings" quote is because it naturalizes nationalism as some kind of basic human error... but why? Genocidal nationalism is a horrible pattern produced by a particular moment in history, not "we're just human beings". But otherwise, much to agree with here.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Zionism is the national self-determination movement of the Jewish people, as well as a force for ethnic cleansing, racial apartheid, and genocide, which makes it just like every other national self-determination movement." Interesting article, tho I really don't like the quote Zeynep highlights.
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Megan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As student protests in France remind the world of their power, I thought it worth resharing this article I wrote on the 1968 revolt of lycéens. As a former lycéenne and former high school teacher I stand with students fighting to determine their own learning conditions isreview.org/issue/111/ma...
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May 1968 and the revolt of the lycéens | International Socialist Review
If 1968 lives in the popular imagination as the year of student rebellion, the student-led revolt of May 1968 in France is one of its most indelible high points, an event whose sense of possibility...
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I thought of you actually!
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DA insists her "'statement described her participation in drug use & sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, &consensual.' Unless today’s undergrads make a habit of reporting consensual sex &drug use to campus police, the DA’s confidence on this point is confusing." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
newyorker.com
How the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National Scandal
The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ironically, I submitted some handmade ad copy for my book recently and looking at it I was suddenly worried ppl would think it was LLM
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wake up kids, Meshell Ndegeocello cover album just dropped Yes yes yes please to this ANOHNI collab
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I Got You Babe
YouTube video by Meshell Ndegeocello - Topic
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The newspapers have been using this trick for years now
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
many such cases
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sehr relatable
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow, the Ani quote spinoff alone demands an immediate follow
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t tell if folks are starting to internalize the style of ChatGPT etc in your academic writing, or if ppl are actually using LLMs to write your stuff. But I’m getting tired reading papers from students and colleagues with random paragraphs that suddenly read like ad copy 🙄
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whoa what a throwback. Can’t believe he’s still active. He stepped on my hand at the front of the stage in like 2002. simpler times
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For readers of German, this is a profile of him. For people studying the nuts and bolts of how corruption and especially land grabbing unfolds on the ground, I recommend reading some of his reporting.
kontextwochenzeitung.de
Bangladesch und Menschenrechte: Im Exil weiterschreiben
Der Journalist Sanjoy Kumar Barua berichtete in Bangladesch über die Verbrechen an der indigenen Bevölkerung und floh wegen Verfolgung nach Deutschland.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Institutions, even the ones ostensibly most dedicated to so-called Enlightenment ideals, serve their own survival over that of the human beings that depend on them. 😔
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s incredible news, not just because it means a safer future for him and his family but it also means he can use that relative safety to continue writing about the situation of indigenous people in Bangladesh 🌱
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The news is that his asylum application was approved after 2 years waiting
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A close friend of mine just got great, lifechanging news… even more lifechanging than winning a MacArthur Award. Is that feeling what they call hope?
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shameful. Ugh
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Current mood
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rose Anne Prevec groundhoghill.ca
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm feeling pretty enraged today at how shitty my people are (men). I hate this for us! I hate this for everyone we force to cast their lot with us! What the actual fuck.
SImone de Beauvoir leading Braveheart charge
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026
"Institutes of higher education harbour known rape dens where men foster a culture of apathy and contempt towards women and are enabled to commit sexual assault" is perhaps something we should consider more objectionable than we currently do.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lmao I stopped gaming in 2005 so talk about bullying
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The theme of our next RUTA conference is freedom—what it is and what it isn’t. Who are the theorists, dissidents, and artists from the RUTA regions of Europe's East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central & Northern Asia—and globally—whose work we build on when we think about what freedom and oppression entail?
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes! The agreement among the brothers ☠️
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🖤
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you for your research 🫡
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On the essential importance of producing questions and not just answers👇
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. In the most extreme cases, it even poses a lethal threat to society. —Wisława Szymborska
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...
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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 (Gift Article)
He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them fifteen minutes later, and then another hour passes… Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?”
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Poets are the worst. Their work is hopelessly unphotogenic. —Wisława Szymborska
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My 5yo kid walked up behind me while I was posting this and said “what are you looking at? Audre Lorde? Black feminist?” I was like “YES! EXACTLY!”
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS IS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ladies and gentletheys, I have today discovered the answer to this question! Green. The outfit is green.
Photo by Dagmar Schultz of Audre Lorde talking with Rina Nissim in Geneva in the late 1980s
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I say read Butler’s Parable of the Sower if you’re not sure where to start 🌱
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
amazing. thank you!
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think this is exactly the purpose here. To accelerate the rise of the right outside the cities.
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