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Joshua Thermidor

@joshuathermidor.bsky.social
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Writer, Translator, Photographer / Creative Nonfic Editor @brinkliterary / Iowa Writers' Workshop '25 / 🇭🇹

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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I need to find a new place to live. My current living situation is not safe anymore. I've been here 6 years. I used to love it here but it's become intolerable. I have a full time job now but I want to move as soon as possible. asking for mutual aid and support 💜 Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ScALE. The Alchemy Lecture. Date: Thursday, Oct. 29 Time: 5 - 8 p.m.; Reception: 5 - 6 p.m. Venue: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, CIBC Lobby Registration now open. In person: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80054/... Online: dashboard.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/80196/... JOIN US!
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(US) Interdisciplinary ArtistTHANDI LOEWENSON
(UK/Zimbabwe) Architectural Designer and ResearcherLORENZO PEZZANI
(Italy) Architect and ResearcherAUDRA SIMPSON
(Kahnawà:ke Mohawk/Canada/US) Anthropologist
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Joshua Thermidor @joshuathermidor.bsky.social · 11h
Dispatches
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Joshua Thermidor @joshuathermidor.bsky.social · 11h
Funny how you can encounter capitalisms most sinister evils while parking your car.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Total global immiseration. The only possible ways through are ones we make together.
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Joshua Thermidor @joshuathermidor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My review of Keisha Scarville's PASSPORTS in Brooklyn Rail's September issue. Thank you to Megan Liberty for editing and taking this on. Thankful to Keisha Scarville for this book. Its many refusals, love, and numerous other imaginings. brooklynrail.org/2026/09/art_...
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Keisha Scarville’s Passports | The Brooklyn Rail
These collages reimagine her father’s Guyanese passport photograph in over three-hundred iterations. The images enact a vision and selfhood that precedes the state’s instruction for us to be singular ...
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Joshua Thermidor @joshuathermidor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
From The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley
Cover of a book that reads THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT CREELEY: 1945-1975. There is an image on the cover. The man in the photo is the author, Robert Creeley. One is open, gazing at the camera. The other is shut, missing.A poem titled "The Crisis." It reads: Let me say (in anger) that since the day we were married / we have never had a towel / where anyone could find it, / the fact. / Notwithstanding that I am not /
simple to live with, not / my own judgement, but no / matter. /There are other things: / to kiss you is not / to love you. / Or not so simply. / Laughter releases rancor, the quality of mercy is not / strained.A Song for Ann:
I had wanted a quiet testament and I had wanted, among other things, a song.
That was to be
of a like monotony.
(A grace
Simply. Very very quiet.
A murmur of some lost
thrush, though I have never seen one.
Which was you then. Sitting
and so, at peace, so very much now this same quiet.
A song.
And of you the sign now, surely, of a gross perpetuity (which is not reluctant, or if it is,
it is no longer important.
A song.
Which one sings, if he sings it, with care.
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Joshua Thermidor @joshuathermidor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It goes without saying, but writing is incredibly difficult
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇
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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Registration Link for the Toronto launch. September 15, 2026. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Come out. Join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-...
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Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON
Join us for the launch of The Practicing Refusal Collective's THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"So when I understood myself as being opposed to the poem, really I was experiencing the onslaught of questions that had likely brought Adnan to both page and canvas." Taking this opportunity to share some Etel Adnan poetry from the archives: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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from "October 27, 2003" by Etel Adnan - Words Without Borders
“Characterized by quiet urgency, an elliptical, delicate consciousness, and exquisite sensitivity, Etel Adnan’s language takes the reader on passages that thread in and out of their own feelings, thei...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@joshuathermidor.bsky.social reflects on how Etel Adnan influenced a generation of poets.
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How Etel Adnan Shaped a Generation of Poets
At the 2026 Venice Biennale, artists and writers converged on Yto Barrada’s exhibition at the French Pavillion to pay tribute to Lebanese-American artist Etel Adnan. A stalwart polymath working acr…
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
My essay on Abdaljawad's writings and Palestinian resistance is my attempt to answer the question that Fargo Tbakhi asked us in December 2023: 'What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this moment of genocide?' proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
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Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine
Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, w...
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Joshua Thermidor @joshuathermidor.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
currently in montpellier, france and went to the bookstore yesterday looking for glissant's poetics of relation and had to place an order for it— when i gave him my last name he couldn't believe it. found it funny considering that i'm in france for bastille day
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
SUBSTACK and NEWSLETTER WRITERS: please check your subscribers for the email addresses tracking@opm.gov a DEIAreports@opm.gov. These are email addresses that your colleagues can use to report you or track you for DEI activity. (via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social)
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