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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Demonic at 20 + Celebrating Carby—with all the cools.

katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is anyone else thinking about how Canadian unis are recruiting loads of US scholars while aggressively sustaining hiring freezes and actively defunding fields like humanities, black studies, gender studies and insisting that international graduate students somehow drain the sector’s economy? I am.

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sending a package to the USA from Canada takes longer and is more frustrating than grading a stack of 1st year essays on intersectionality.

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Krista Franklin sent me “Bind” 😭😭😭😭 ✌🏾🎶

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

…tonight at Osler Records we launch the reissues of She Tries and Looking by nourbeSe philip. come early, buy a book, get a free copy of Smile while supplies last! ✌🏾🥂🎶

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Natália Alves da Silva And I in Conversation! Get it at katherinemckittrick.com

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

what sound looks like (raw draft, coming soon)

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

…celebrating 20 years of Demonic while loving music, writing, getting down, landing in the wrong place, reading reading reading and revising. thank you Muna, you are truly brilliant, a smart and thoughtful interlocutor and cherished music advisor. jcri.ca/index.php/CR...

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking Muna Dahir & Katherine McKittrick (no paywall) in GeoHumanities: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

if I could be any voice—just me, floating around as a sonic vibe—I’d be Etta James’ voice.

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

…and how this comes through in his critique of war and preventable/premature death and then you are rolling along…and suddenly you are in love, like really in love, in a totally new way, like deep deep disco-funk-love, or maybe that kind of love Richard Iton talks about. (4)

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

but something else is going on for me, too. lessons about a level creative labour that is so practiced it’s a perfect circle, it’s not genius, it’s a way of life or something…(3)

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I know I’m not the first person to say that the world is empty without prince and that in these grim times he’d lift us up, quietly or otherwise...(2)

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

after prince passed over I had this custom made. I’ve worn it almost every day for almost ten years…(1)

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dear xxx. I don’t want anyone to curate my books and ideas, generate a wider audience, world-make my scholarship, share the urgency and harm, circulate me, omg lol. Leave me alone!

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

With a forward by Simone Browne and an afterword by Sylvia Wynter. Demonic Grounds is 20 and still twirling.

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