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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Es ist bei weitem nicht das Schlimmste, was in der Datei (Kleine Anfrage 21/1235) zu lesen ist, aber schaut wohin die Reise gegangen ist, seit der 2024 Kritik am Internationalen Literaturpreis von Othmann und Liebert ⬇️ Bin gespannt wie der Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien reagieren wird.

12. Wie bewertet der Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien den Vorgang um die Vorwürfe zweier ehemaliger Jurorinnen des Internationalen Literaturpreises aus dem Jahr 2024, wonach Werke und Preisträger nach antiweißen, rassischen Kriterien ausgewählt worden seien (siehe Vorbemerkung der Fragesteller)?

13. Wird sich der Staatsminister für Kultur und Medien fortsn dafür einsetzen, dass auch weiße Autoren bei der Auswahl des Internationalen Literaturpreises berücksichtigt werden?

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Love to spend the first week of January putting together my "new books of the year" calendar. I did collect information over the past year, sorted through these, looked at my favourite publishers etc My personal list has 168 titles (lol) but here is a short version: haveyouread.de/30-new-publi...

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30 New Publications in 2025 I Am Excited For

Over the past years my preview lists have become more and more extensive and putting together these kind of posts incredibly time consuming (so I never even did my list for the second half of 2024)…

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more electricliterature.com/75-books-by-...

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75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature

We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/12/2023

Finding it increasingly jarring that so much presumably realistic contemporary fiction these days takes place in an alternative universe in which the pandemic never happened

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Bluestockings Cooperative is an indispensible feminist bookstore in NYC. It's been a fantastic community space for as long as I can remember. Now it's facing eviction because the store is providing Narcan — and they've actually saved lives!. Please do what you can to help. Details below...

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Very thankful that you can choose in the settings "alt text required before posting". I always want to include alt text (obviously) and usually, by now, it's an automated part of the process of posting. But just now I got distracted and would have posted without alt text. But fortunately I couldn't!

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec15 Carl de Souza's Kaya Days (transl. by Jeffrey Zuckerman) had been on my reading pile for a while and I finally read it. This Mauritian book follows a girl for a night looking for her brother amidst the uproar after a musician had died in police custody.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec14 Miss Major Speaks, which consists of conversations between Miss Major (a Black trans revolutionary as the subtitle says) and Toshio Meronek, is another great book Verso published this year. We really need all the books by trans elders we can get.

The book Miss Major Speaks lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec13 Did continue my way through Jasmine Walls' work and read the first book of DC's Vixen: NYC. I am not a huge DC reader but this was very entertaining (and loved the art). Will pick up more of this series.

The comic book Vixen: NYC Vol. 1 lies on a blanket.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

This piece about how a radical art collective planted subversive props in 3 years' worth of Melrose Place episodes (and made Aaron Spelling look very stupid) has quite simply changed my life

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One of the Most Audacious Pranks in History Was Hidden in a Hit TV Show for Years. Not Everyone Foun...

Abortion activism, anti-gun propaganda, and HIV awareness, smuggled onto prime time.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Still masking against COVID-19? “A small team of feminist disability justice researchers want to hear from you! Consider participating in a short survey with researchers at York University and Athabasca University. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... “

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12 Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅

My hand holds the book The Cost of Living.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec11 Monique ("Lesbians are not women.") Wittig's essays (newly published in German translation by Benjamin Dittmann-Bieber and Arabel Summent) written in the 1980s/90s are deeply thought provoking. Yes, there are things I'd criticise but there is a lot to gain here.

The book Das straighte Denken by Monique Wittig lies on a blanket.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Sunday, with Ada Limón (and New Orleans).

“Standing at the swell of the muddy Mississippi

after the urgent care doctor had just said, Well,

sometimes shit happens, I fell fast and hard

for New Orleans all over again. Pain pills swirling

in the purse along with a spell for later. It’s taken

a while for me to admit, I am in a raging battle

with my body, a spinal column thirty-five degrees

bent, vertigo that comes and goes like a DC Comics

villain nobody can kill. Invisible pain is both

a blessing and a curse. You always look so happy,

said a stranger once as I shifted to my good side

grinning. But that day, alone on the riverbank,

brass blaring from the Steamboat Natchez,

out of the corner of my eye, I saw a girl, maybe half my age,

dressed, for no apparent reason, as Wonder Woman.

She strutted by in all her strength and glory, invincible,

eternal, and when I stood to clap (because who wouldn’t have),

she bowed and posed like she knew I needed a myth—

a woman, by a river, indestructible.”

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Olivian (hen/hens) @olivian.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Adventskalender QueerMusic Tür 10 «Homem com H» Ney Mattogrosso Das heutige Lied lebt insbesondere von der performativen Kunst seines Interpreten, weshalb wir zunächst Ney Mattogrosso ein wenig kennenlernen müssen, um die Wirkung des Lieds, auch in den Diskurs hinein, zu verstehen. 1x

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Ney Matogrosso - Homem Com H (Ao Vivo)

Siga o artista:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neymatogrosso/?hl=enHomem Com H - Ao Vivo Em Belo Horizonte / 1999(Antonio Barros)Letra:Nunca vi rastro d...

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

There is a current publishing scandal: a white 2024 debut author made Goodreads fake accounts to not only upvote their own book but also gave 1 star reviews to a bunch of fellow 2024 debut novels - all by BPoC authors. SL Huang shared infos on these latter books - and they sound incredible.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec9 Spent today with some queer poetry by Padraig Regan ("Some Integrity"). "[...] the future is as futures often are just history we haven't memorised & I cannot say if you survived it." (from "Poem for Bobby Kendall")

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Berlin gegen Nazis @berlingegennazis.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Hunderten Demokratieprojekten droht das Aus zum 1. Januar - Auch die Kolleg_innen in unserem großen Schwesterprojekt MBR Berlin müssten ihre Arbeit am 31.12. einstellen. Zur PM vom Bundesverband Mobile Beratung und vielen Verbänden & Vereine bundesverband-mobile-beratung.de/artikel/hund...

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Hunderten Demokratieprojekten droht das Aus zum 1. Januar | Bundesverband Mobile Beratung

Die Demokratieförderung in Deutschland ist aktuell wegen fehlender Bewilligungen massiv bedroht. Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt schnell eine Lösung finden!

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec8 This year in July Marga Minco died at 103. Her debut Het bittere kruid ("Bitter herbs") from 1957 tells about the occupation of the Netherlands in episodes about a Jewish family. The protagonist is the only one who survives in hiding. The story is very close to Minco's own.

The book "Das bittere Kraut" lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec7 I recently read Jasmine Walls latest graphic novel, Brooms, which I loved so I looked for more of her work. The Last Session is a wonderful comic about a group of queer friends trying to finish a last D&D campaign before after college graduation they won't live close anymore.

The comic The Last Session lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec6 Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark is an incredible memoir in letters. In conversation with texts/ thoughts/ art by many other trans people (in particular woman and femmes), McKenzie writes about grief, late(r) transition, political struggles, philosophy. A joy.

The book Love and Money, Sex and Death lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec5 Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross might be the first full book I have read on the Paris Commune and while it was really interesting it was also pretty dense and I think, I should have read a different introduction first.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec4 "aufgeschrieben" by H.C. Rosenblatt is a very special German-language book, and a hard one to read. It's about immense violence and its repercussions, about loyalty and parental figures, about disableing systems, dissociation and survival.

The book "aufgeschrieben" lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec3 The graphic novel Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier and Val Wise is just a cute story (though tackling some hard topics) about friendship, ascerting yourself and kindness. Central is also a love story about two girls (one being trans). Heartwarming read.

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Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Heute ist Internationaler Tag der Menschen mit Behinderungen. Inklusion bedeutet auch solidarischer Infektionsschutz.

Eine Illustration im Stil Antifaschistische Aktion. Im Hintergrund ist die Disability Pride Flag. Parallel liegende Streifen in rot, gelb, weiß, blau und grün verlaufen von der Ecke links oben in die Ecke rechts unten. Im Vordergrund ist ein schwarzer Kreisrahmen mit weißer Schrift: Antieugenische Aktion. Im Kreisrahmen sind eine weiße und eine rote FFP2-Maske, die sich überlappen.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec2 Really interesting book by Jodi Dean on why comrade is a helpful concept for political organizing (while, i.e., "ally" is less helpful). A lot of historical background. Dean is pretty Leninist - but even if you aren't there is a lot to think about in this book.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days #Dec1 we are f*****g here! An African Queer Collection on Safer Sex, Sexuality and Gender is a collection of essays, photography etc. This book tackles anything from making your own sex toys (in places where they are often forbidden) to experiences as a queer disabled person.

The book "we are f****g here!" lies on a blanket.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

#24BooksIn24Days I decided to make my own reading advent calender and put 24 slim(ish) books I already own on a stack and plan to pick one a day and read it. Let's see how this goes. I'll share some thoughts on each book here.

My hand holds three small books in front of a bookshelf. The books are: Kaya Days, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, Das straighte Denken.

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Without further adieu, we present the cover and T.O.C for #FIYAHLitMag Issue NO. 29! 🎨: Jordan Penland ✍🏾: Olumide Manuel, P. C. Verrone, Carol B. Duncan, Jo Telle, N. Romaine White, & Michael Boatman This issue will be available on January 1st for $3.99! #Specfic fiyahlitmag.com/2023/12/01/i...

Image of a deity with blue checkered skin and thick curly hair made of pink and red hearts. They wear yellow checked star glasses and have their right hand resting on their face. In the background is star speckles.

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

The one "100 Notable Books of 2023" list I honestly care about: brittlepaper.com/notable-afri...

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Notable African Books of 2023

Explore African Literature

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@kerstinkoeditz.blsky.social @kerstinkoeditz.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Der @reclamverlag.bsky.social gestattet nun doch die Lesung aus LTI von Victor Klemperer durch die extremen Rechten der Freien Wähler Dresden um Susanne Dagen. Die bedanken sich artig. Die Worte des Verlags sind ein Schlag ins Gesicht aller, die sich heute gegen Antisemitismus engagieren.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

If you put links or hashtags in your alt text, no one will be able to click or select the link or hashtag. It's just going to be read out loud. If you have a link or hashtag to share, that should go in the written part of your post or your tweet, but not the alt text.

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Katharina König-Preuss @katharinakoenig.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Heute vor 12 Jahren, am 04.11.2011, enttarnte sich der rechtsterroristische #NSU. Im Gedenken an Enver Şimşek Abdurrahim Özüdoğru Süleyman Taşköprü Habil Kılıç Mehmet Turgut İsmail Yaşar Theodoros Boulgarides Mehmet Kubaşık Halit Yozgat Michèle Kiesewetter #keinSchlussstrich

Ein Plakat auf dem die Gesichter der 10 ermordeten Menschen und ihre Namen dazu zu sehen sind. In der Mitte brennt eine Kerze.

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analyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Anti-Schwarzer Rassismus hat EU-weit zugenommen, in Deutschland besonders stark, so eine neue Studie. In dem Zusammenhang lohnt sich ein Blick auf den Afrozensus von 2021, eine Untersuchung aus der Schwarzen Community, die Schwarze Lebensrealitäten zusammentrug: www.akweb.de/gesellschaft...

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Von der Community über die Community

Der Afrozensus untersucht erstmals systematisch Schwarze Lebensrealitäten in der Bundesrepublik

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Finally watched Jacqueline Audry's Olivia tonight - and really enjoyed this very queer 1950s film which portrays queer longing so well (even though need to note that its whiteness was further underlined through one racist remark about Africa and students dressing as "other cultures".)

Laptop screen shows scene from the film Olivia: two women in gowns are dancing arm in arm through a room.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I need white Germans to realize that May Ayim was a poet in addition to being an activist, intellectual, speech therapist, etc. Her writing has literary significance. Just because you don't read her doesn't mean she isn't important. 1/

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

My poem of the week for VIBE CHECK is “Portrait of a Drag Queen with a Pig Nose” by Sam Sax. It’s from Sam’s incandescent new book PIG: bookshop.org/p/books/pig-...

behind the gas station the queen begins facing away from the crowd. low-cut back, floor-length gown. pulses a knee to the music, arm on hip, believable human silhouette. ishould know this song. the rest of the audience sings along, lit by a rented spot. bride to tires and oil. centuries pass as she turns slow as a planet with all us dying on it. the reveal, below the veil, her silicone snout, scarred and profound. hybrid thing. elegant-bipedal-terrifying. think monster but make it fashion. think what monsters go into making fashion. we gasp at the temporary godhead standing before us, the promise of all our science inside one passable prosthetic. in a laboratory in california scientists inject human stem cells into a pig fetus and for four weeks it lives. miss vice, you are the perfected form of all our darkest literatures smiling. you are the language we've been looking for when we say we need a new language. darkness dragged, bathed in light. the song ends. she sniffs. collects her t

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Svenja Reiner @svenjareiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Finde die Aktion 💙 und wollte auch hier Bescheid sagen: Im Oktober organisiert das Center for Literature eine digitale Lesegruppe zu Ingeborg Bachmanns »Malina«. Pro Session werden 40 Seiten besprochen. Termine im Bild. Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei. Anmeldung unter digitaleburg@burg-huelshoff.de

Bild des Buchcovers Malina. Das ist kein Liebesroman

Alle Termine:
Montag, 16. Oktober, 19 Uhr, mit Evan Tepest
Montag, 30. Oktober, 19 Uhr, mit Monika Rinck
Montag, 13. November, 19 Uhr, mit Heike Geißler
Montag, 27. November, 19 Uhr, mit Simone Scharbert
Montag, 11. Dezember, 19 Uhr, mitDorothee Elminger

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Charlott Schönwetter @halfbook.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Having been only a passive user on the bird app for a long time now (due to reasons), I fear I might have forgotten how to participate in this kind of social media. But happy to (re)connect here though I'll spent this evening mainly with these three books.

Three books lie on a blanket: Messer, Zungen by SGL, Digging Stars by Novuyo Rosa Tshhuma, and Pop Song by Larissa Pham.

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