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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 30/09/2026

And re-gendering as a subsequent/additional violence

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a new article out today in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism called "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s." 1/ Access it for free with my author link: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsr/art...

Screenshot of the beginning of an article called "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s" by Spencer Beswick. Text reads:

“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan's threat to invade Nicaragua in 1988. Acting within a broad progressive coalition, RABL helped shut down major sections of downtown Minneapolis for three days in an outpouring of rebellion against the Reagan administration's covert wars in Central America. Events reached a dramatic climax when a masked protester threw a bowling ball through the window of a military recruitment office.1 The crash of the broken glass marked the beginning of a new era of anarchist militancy in the United States. The rage of a generation of young people raised in Reagan's America threatened to explode.

Reflecting this mood, the pilot edition of what became the Love and Rage anarchist newspaper (published from 1990 to 1998) was simply called RAGE! The pilot, which was distributed at an action at the Pentagon in 1988, reflected growing anger at the Reagan administration's wars at home and abroad, including the war on drugs. Promised a “new morning in America,” a generation of disaffected young people raised in the alienation

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 24/09/2026

“CSA [us! 😎] will help facilitate a broad survey of public media and local media professionals, civic leaders and concerned citizens to answer ‘how can public media serve communities in greater ways?’ [&] how public media should be structured and funded to provide those services”

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Public Media Co., Poynter partner to reimagine public media

The partners plan to release recommendations early next year.

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 23/09/2026

“notion of culture that connected to the ability to move the spirit of the listener was an internally developed power, generationally handed down & pulled from spiritually inspired ways of being that were a psycho-spiritual counterbalance to our lack of collective economic, political & social power”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 23/09/2026

“enslaved Africans indigenized the landscape with their demons and duppies and all the rich panoply of human imagination. Wynter’s saying they brought their folklore, they brought everything/these things became a part of how they express themselves in the space that they found themselves.”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 23/09/2026

“Afroindigenization was and is a way of speaking about how we culturally and socially re-engineered the environments we occupy, with our style, our music, our sound, our humor, our art, our speech, our food culture, our dance, our poetry, our song, our rhythms, and our overall energy”

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Catherine A John, "Afroindigenization: A Theory of Grassroots Cultural Practice" (Duke UP, 2026)

Podcast Episode · New Books in African American Studies · September 15 · 46m

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 18/09/2026

the book is free to read "Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing"

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Everything Is Police | Manifold@UMinnPress

Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing anti-Black violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. The result, Tia Trafford argues here...

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 18/09/2026

“the project is required to manage & make sense of this tension between the drive to annihilate blackness & maintain blackness as a source of exploitable value, rights, privileges, the coherence of things like property, freedom, law So any white world is not completable & its very form is policing”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 18/09/2026

“civil order or the space of reason or the space of freedom is in fact the form of repressed anti-black desire & violence/ white worlding requires an endless attempt to suture the breach upon which it's grounded. That attempt to suturing means that we end up with a world in the form of the police”

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Policing and worldmaking.

Podcast Episode · University of Minnesota Press · May 28, 2024 · 56m

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 16/09/2026

music nostalgia era 🌼 song: Fiori - If I from first CD I ever bought, best of trance vol 1 🥹

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 15/09/2026

“Circuit parties often bear the brunt of respectability politics within the LGBTQ+ community. They’re seen as frivolous or deviant by some, but that critique often overlooks their deeper significance as spaces of… a reimagining of what community, freedom, and joy can look like”

advocate.com

The history of the circuit party: Transforming LGBTQ+ political pain into power

<p>“It’s like a religious revival,” Harvard professor Michael Bronski says.</p>

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 02/09/2026

“while we're attempting to come up with new ways of thinking about the future & new policies for better relating to the future, we're also living in the present, carrying the costs of repaying all the earlier futures that were stolen/accumulated from in the past”

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Timothy Mitchell, "The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow" (Verso, 2026)

Podcast Episode · New Books in Critical Theory · July 21 · 1h

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Sabot Media @sabot.media · 30/08/2026

8/10 This reveals what kind of infrastructure the state accepts. Corporate platforms may carry radical speech while remaining centralized, surveillable and responsive to pressure. Autonomous infrastructure denies governments and corporations those points of control.

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 28/08/2026

a closed loop enables forward movement, only to return to the same position, our rightful/assigned place. this is the repeating structure of racial violence, the founding grammar of modernity. the shape of futurity, of time llegalized, of people illegalized.

scatteredseeds.leaflet.pub

closed loops

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 28/08/2026

Been making the case on the public media side to become/fortify essential local civic infrastructure alongside libraries. They’re the model of a resilient, community-centric/serving and therefore trusted, *public* good… esp as capitalism-fascism degrades/exploits public commons/services

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 26/08/2026

my motto: dont understand whats going on but the vibes are right 😎

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 25/08/2026

The way ive returned to her work over and over to try to understand and consistently learn something new 😮‍💨

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 25/08/2026

Believe, ive been wanting to write more about her work, but when i sit down and start trying to simplify for wider audience, i fall apart! But that’s maybe by design since she’s trying to write outside/against modern thought

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 25/08/2026

Blame da Silva!! She’s hard to summarize bc she built a precise language, each word carries big baggage/specific meanings. Easier for me to stay close to her vocab than flatten it through summary 😭

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 25/08/2026

“the political-symbolic arsenal that confectioned globality institutes post-Enlightenment modern subjects as racial things, universal entities that signify necessitas, thus establishing an unresolvable distinction between the self-determined *I* and its affectable others”

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No-bodies: Law, Raciality and Violence

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 25/08/2026

“The apparatus of modern knowledge & its onto-epistemological devices are part of the biopolitical apparatus assembled with the deployment of the Classical toolkit to classify, order & manage populations/ analytics of raciality is the arsenal operating in the postcolonial/global political terrain”

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Notes for a Critique of the ‘Metaphysics of Race’

Two questions frame this response to Amin's article 'The Remainders of Race'. It first introduces an epistemological question that recognizes the impossibility of separating ontology and e...

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 25/08/2026

Their philosophies assembled the modern grammar of racial violence (analytics of raciality) that continues to structure global space. They established separability, determinacy, & sequentiality as onto-epistemological pillars of modern thought, which keep re-producing The Human as a racial being

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On Difference Without Separability

Following European states’ responses to the “refugee crisis” resulting from the latest wars of Global Capital – that is, local and regional conflicts about control of natural resources – it is evident...

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 23/08/2026

"calling this something else anti-blackness, instead of capitalism, seems to have more explanatory power bc it deploys a problematic in which blackness is not hierarchy (reduced capacity) but negation, that which cant appear except in scenes of racial violence that police & spectacularize incapacity

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BAR Book Forum: Interview with Sara-Maria Sorentino | Black Agenda Report

This week’s featured scholar is Sara-Maria Sorentino. Sorentino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. Her article is “Mistresses as Maste...

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 23/08/2026

"It may be that race is the way anti-blackness appears to political economy, such that labor, exploitation, capital, & commodity are some of the best avenues to understand racial hierarchies. But this does not mean race need be reduced to its appearance; may be the distorted form of something else"

Excerpt from linked interview with Sara-Maria Sorentino

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You recently wrote an article called, “The Abstract Slave: Anti-Blackness and Marx’s Method,” for the journal of International Labor and Working-Class History. What are the analytical gaps of Marx’s method for confronting structures of anti-Blackness?

Marx’s method is paradoxically well-suited to the theoretical critique of anti-blackness. One part of me is inclined to say Marx developed the right method—immanent critique, real abstraction, an analysis of social forms—but began with the wrong object. While Marx approached slavery metaphorically (“wage slavery”) and historically (a subsumed mode of production), I’m interested in what would happen if slavery was considered not merely a historical preface that withers away, or pedestal that is superseded, but a theoretical problem for totality on the order of (or exceeding) capitalism. Could there be a critique of the critique of political economy (now standing Marx on his head) adequate to the problem of anti-blackness? An immanent critique of this sort seems necessary, though precariously so, to expose the ways latent Marxist readings of labor tend to answer questions about anti-blackness, and slavery’s relationship to capitalism, before they have been adequately posed.

If Marx’s “abstract labor” is the way human capacity has become developed one-sidedly, visions of emancipation tend to want to liberate capacity for its full flourishing by also sidelining what bargain might have been struck for reduced capacity to feel like freedom. As the incapacity that is both the prelude to and remnant of this bargain, “abstract slavery” might extend the classic libidinal economizing involved in “wages of whiteness” (“I may be poor, broken, downtrodden, expropriated, incarcerated, but at least I’m not black”) towards a critical apparatus that encircles a negation always in motion. It may be that race is the way anti-blackness appears to political economy...

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 22/08/2026

all the expected academics

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 16/08/2026

#littlejoys journey to the rmu 🏋🏽‍♂️

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 14/08/2026

"the theoretical frameworks available in the social sciences and the humanities, which assume, identify, and reproduce the Social and Human as universally applicable, are incapable of grasping antiblackness as a quintessential antisocial and antihuman condition and process”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 14/08/2026

João Costa Vargas "Blue Pill, Red Pill: The Incommensurable Worlds of Racism and Antiblackness" tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/ka...

A table that compares blue pill (racism) to red pill (anti blackness)

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TABLE 1. THE BLUE PILL OF RACISM VS. THE RED PILL OF ANTIBLACKNESS
Blue pill
Racism
Basic hierarchy is White/nonwhite
Multiracial alliances a requirement
Specific but related forms of oppression between all racialized and oppressed groups Empire-state and multiracial democracy are ultimately redeemable
The solution is reform and/or radical transformation

Red pill
Antiblackness
Basic hierarchy is nonblack/Black
Black autonomy: multiracial alliances a possibility
Incommensurability of Black positionality
The Social and the Human are irremediably antiblack, and so is the world order
The solution is abolition

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 14/08/2026

"While antiracism seeks a recalibrated world, which suggests that we currently inhabit an embattled but perfectible social formation, anti-antiblackness requires an unqualified rupture. That is to say, the world we currently inhabit is intrinsically averse to Black people and thus unsalvageable"

Excerpt from João Costa Vargas's article "Blue Pill, Red Pill: The Incommensurable Worlds of Racism and Antiblackness"

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"I take up the blue-pill/red-pill allegory to emphasize the irreconcilable difference between the worlds of racism and antiblackness. While the world of racism is defined by and experienced through the multiple and combined oppressions deriving from the effects of imperialist, cisheteropatriarchal White supremacist capitalism (hooks 2004), the world of antiblackness—the Matrix, as it were—is defined by and in radical opposition to the central, foundational, and unique structural positionality of Black people. The world of racism is configured in contrast to and in the perpetuation of White cisheteropartriachal propertied men, the fundamental positionality according to which nonwhites attain relative disadvantages and privileges. This is a world defined by a White/ nonwhite continuum in which Black people, like other nonwhites, are subjected to specific yet related vulnerabilities to early death by preventable causes. The world of racism stresses both specific and related forms of combined oppres-sions. In it, while excluded and deemed less than human, Black people and other nonwhites make articulable claims of inclusion into the human family (Spill-ers 2003, 226) and its corresponding sociability. As long as the combined oppressions of race, social class, gender, sexuality, and ability, among others, are located and pushed back, the world of racism—in theory, at least, and through political struggle (which is often, but not always, within the confines of the rule of law) —is malleable, allowing movement along the continuum. Put in another way: antiracism strategically utilizes and seeks to expand, rather than disavows, the blue-pill world foundational"

Excerpt from João Costa Vargas's article "Blue Pill, Red Pill: The Incommensurable Worlds of Racism and Antiblackness"

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The world of antiblackness is structured by an algorithm according to which nonblack peoples, including Whites, attain their relative privilege and disadvantages vis-à-vis the distance they are able to establish and maintain from Black people. Here, Black people's sui generis positionality is such that, while defining by radical contrast who is Human and who belongs to the Social-namely nonblacks, in varying degrees—it necessarily excludes Black people from the assumed universal realms of the human family and human social interaction.
While antiracism seeks a recalibrated world, which suggests, from a blue-pill perspective, that we currently inhabit an embattled but perfectible social for-mation, anti-antiblackness requires an unqualified rupture.'
1 That is to say, the
world we currently inhabit, from a red-pill perspective, is intrinsically averse to Black people and thus unsalvageable. In the world of antiblackness, the fundamental antagonism is between Black people and the planetary shared symbolic order that permanently locks Blackness into abjection. That is to say: even with the elimination of the combined oppressions of race, gender, social class, ability, and others, the Black person would still be Black and therefore fundamentally considered nonhuman and unequivocally excluded. As shown more pointedly below through a reflection on fungibility that Saidiya Hartman (1997) advances, antiblackness exceeds such combined oppressions that include exploitation and alienation, and thus necessitates conceptual invention to capture it. The world of antiblackness engenders a Black/nonblack continuum of belonging that requires
(a) Black people's imposed and unique positionality of exclusion, and (b) Black people's expulsion from the continuum itself."

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 13/08/2026

And that for all those waiting to embrace their loved ones again, may the hope of returning home never be lost.” - Matraka

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 13/08/2026

It’s dedicated to those who miss their family’s embrace, the flavors of home, the streets that watched them grow up, and the land that names them. May tonight be a reminder that our roots travel with us. That no wall, no border, and no distance can erase who we are…

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 13/08/2026

“This show is dedicated to all the Latinos who today live far from their country. To those who left their homeland searching for a better future. To those who, because of the circumstances of these times, face uncertainty, fear, and distance…

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 09/08/2026

Found them recently, they remind me of older progressive house I used to love

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Le Youth - i'm breaking down

YouTube video by This Never Happened

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 07/08/2026

A beautiful write up of our nationwide survey of rural life & needs! (I even got a shoutout 😊) We *really* are reorienting the future of public media I’ve been shocked by the impact our research has had on the industry rethinking its purpose and shifting its operations to better serve the public

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The Story We Keep Missing About Rural America · NFCB

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 06/08/2026

“when we rely on given political imaginations, especially through the law, and we mobilize in those kinds of ways where there's less deliberation, there's less conflict, less disruption, we do less imagining”

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 06/08/2026

“deportation is an injustice not because of the details of any individual case, but because the practice itself is an act of state violence that no bureaucracy can sanitize and no person's “legal” status justifies”

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Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Re-Air)

Podcast Episode · Death Panel · July 30 · 2h 6m

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The introduction to the vibes book is live and free on the publisher’s website! dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...

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Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Dissident sexualities and the rewiring of queer intimacies during a pandemic in 1980s Brazil: read the first English translation of Nestor Ponce's THE SPECTERS OF AIDS, released this week #OpenAccess! FREE to download here: punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5... #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Brazil

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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 01/08/2026

145, working on building more strength

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