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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Major props to Ideas on Fire author Petal Kimberly Samuel on the publication of The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance, out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social! 🎊 www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/the... #IoFAuthors

Cover the The Quiet Zone, with an abstract black liquid sculpture with legs

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Petal Samuel @iounalao.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It's almost time! So excited to celebrate my book's birthday this week--The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance (Rutgers UP) is coming soon - Tues Jan 13th! 🤭📚 @rutgersupress.bsky.social Pre-order here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-quiet-zo...

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The Quiet Zone

The Quiet Zone examines what the emergence of quiet as an elite aesthetic, privilege, and entitlement means for Afro-Caribbean people who are often narrated as loud, disruptive, and disturbing, sonica...

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Annette Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you live in the triangle area this is a good time to get your produce locally and support Black farmers www.tallgrassnc.com

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Honoring the memory of a literary giant who has become an ancestor Velma Pollard (born 1937). A Jamaican poet and fiction writer, among Pollard’s most noteworthy works are Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here (1991). She is the sister of Erna Brodber, another Jamaican literary treasure.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "If maritime metaphors grapple continuously with how to map Blackness’s trajectories—our relationships to space, the environment, our history, and each other—spacetime metaphors may be more interested in sensing and, thereby, elaborating new ways of knowing: they press on the ways we fail to adequately know and name the fullness of Blackness’s meanings, locations, enactments, and possibilities."

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

differences 35.2 is out now! — edited by Shoniqua Roach, "Inside the Black (W)hole" features essays from Moya Bailey, Sharon P. Holland, Amber Jamilla Musser, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

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