Reposted by JstheaterAnil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows that Prince had a period in the late 80s when he was quite enamored with Chicago house music, and he created (at least) a gospel-tinged house album, for which he tried to enlist Mark Moore of S’express, Patti Labelle for vocals, and maybe William Orbit. 624739
Reposted by JstheaterThe New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have a chapter coming out about Black autofiction that could have just been about Zami but thinks about the genre through @jstheater.bsky.social’s Annotations and Alison Millls Newman’s Francisco. There’s so much to talk about beyond Heti and Cusk. 1112
Reposted by JstheaterOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026REGISTER. COME. Gathering toward another way of being in relation. JOIN US. 32011
Reposted by JstheaterLouis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is good news because China accounts for one-fifth of humankind. 1212
Reposted by JstheaterAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 31/08/2026Did you know there were people of African descent in Anglo-Saxon England? DNA analysis at two 7th century AD cemeteries found two individuals had a grandparent from sub-Saharan West Africa. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #InternationalDayforPeopleofAfricanDescent 🏺 #Archaeology 📷 Lilian Ladle 711235
Reposted by JstheaterÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026just preordered this: rednuncollective.org/store/p/shri...rednuncollective.orgShrine: A Little Book About Paul Thek — RED NUN COLLECTIVE 241
Reposted by JstheaterZach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 15/08/2026"There's nothing ethically wrong with what I'm doing, but for some uh, other reason, I cannot allow anyone to know I'm doing it" 2472142
Reposted by JstheaterMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/08/2026We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿 142397725
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A question for readers & writers here on Bsky: what are some works you'd consider *contemporary* notable examples of what would be labeled "the poet's novel." I'm thinking not simply of novels *by* poets, but of novels that defy usual fictional expectations & unfold on highly poetic/lyrical axes. 15239
Reposted by JstheaterBill Atkinson @atkinsopht.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"Another round of intense heat is expected to sweep across large swaths of Europe this week. Forecasters warned that rapidly rising temperatures, combined with persistently bone-dry conditions, could worsen a severe threat of wildfires." @climatecasino.net www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/w...nytimes.comEurope Braces for Another Heat Wave. Here’s What to Know.High temperature warnings were in place across western, central and southern Europe on Sunday as a heat dome intensifies across the continent. 1279
Reposted by JstheaterAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Might keep a copy of this in my wallet. 2789
Reposted by JstheaterDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026Nobody is less interested in what *actual* rural people & interest groups *actually* say & want than the rural romanticizers always lecturing Dems to reach out more. 542659
Reposted by JstheaterEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held. 201202908
Reposted by JstheaterData for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 28/07/2026NEW: Do Democrats funded by AIPAC pay an electoral penalty in a general election? We find that a Democrat funded by AIPAC performs significantly worse against a Republican than a Democrat who “rejects all outside financial support from industry groups and PACs.” 315365
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I know Fauci rightly has been advised to plead the 5th since this is a set up but in another universe he might remind Moreno that DJT was president when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the economy collapsed & over 100,000+ Americans died of Covid-19. Too many forget that. 050
Reposted by JstheaterTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...snyder.substack.comWhat is Fascism?The third lecture in my new course, "Hitler and Stalin today." 11545219
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Wackiest AI scam email I've received yet--I'm invited, under an incorrect name, to participate in a Boozy Book Lovers' (!) chat in DC for a book I've never written about a state I've never visited. The actual author appears to be an AI creation too. Good times, good times 🤡! 030
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Let's try this again, w/out typos: First there were the rando promo (scam) emails. Recently, new ones have been coming from ClaimsHero about AI claims, etc. No thanks for me. But don't just take my word for it: writerbeware.blog/2025/11/07/p...writerbeware.blogPredatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement - Writer BewareThe enormous, $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright class action settlement is reputedly the biggest copyright infringement recovery in history. With such a high-profile case, it’s inevitable that eligible... 000
Reposted by Jstheaterkarima @nightshade.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026Her oeuvre will continue resonating with folks struggling against misogynoir, other forms of anti-Black racism, and white supremacy. May she now rest in celestial peace. 031
Reposted by JstheaterDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Betye Saar by Kayla James, 2024 #RIP "Saar says that it’s about keeping everything clean, keeping politics clean, keeping your life clean, your actions clean. She wants America to clean up its act and a lot of her art has to do with this idea that we haven’t cleaned up our act." - Wendy NE Ikemoto 0164
Reposted by JstheaterDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Betye Saar in her studio, with Black Girl’s Window 📷 Bob Nakamura, 1970 #RIP "The piece represents a cross section of Ms. Saar’s interests, & signaled the turn her practice would take toward found objects & more overtly political content." - Jillian Steinhauer www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/a... 1255
Reposted by JstheaterDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026#RIP Betye Saar Black Girl’s Window, 1969 Museum of Modern Art Saar was inspired by Joseph Cornell's shadow boxes. "They were beautiful and funny and fascinating. I saw his work and realized that it was OK to make art out of anything." 15216
Reposted by JstheaterDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026#RIP Betye Saar 📷 Mimi Jacobs, 1979 "I’ve always felt that old objects hold a power. They’ve survived, and they have a sense of the previous owner. They have a spirit." 34213
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The incomparable, groundbreaking artist #BetyeSaar has passed, at 99: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...nytimes.comBetye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art. 21810
Reposted by JstheaterBLACKCATFOXRABBIT 🇨🇴🇺🇸🏳️🌈🐾 @blackcatfoxrabbit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026"Coastal elites" are the ones literally paying people to shill for her online. 544833
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Apropos of the *Odyssey* conversations, I haven't seen anyone mention the great African American classisict Frank M. Snowden, Jr. (AB, PhD Harvard, taught for most of his career at Howard), who wrote 2 foundational books about Black people in antiquity. 081
Reposted by Jstheaterdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026“The AAUP stands in solidarity with Steven Thrasher, the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, who last week filed a lawsuit against Northwestern and against partisan government actors” www.aaup.org/news/northwe...aaup.orgNorthwestern University’s Campaign against Free ExpressionThe AAUP stands in solidarity with Steven Thrasher, the inaugural Daniel H. 221574
Reposted by JstheaterDerrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Those divas! The movie and play have stuck with me since I was a teen. Last summer, I saw it on the big screen at IFC, and what a blast to see it in a crowd. Lately, I've obsessed over the Venable's home and how the set design encodes the queerness that censorship tried to repress. 011
Reposted by Jstheaterpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026matthew always brings the receipts 6776073907
Reposted by JstheaterAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow. 7780257
Reposted by JstheaterRep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A quick update on the Cyclospora outbreak. 24870632277
Reposted by JstheaterJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress: 38568804397
Reposted by JstheaterAndrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...nytimes.comFaced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food StampsArizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties. 561640805
Reposted by JstheaterDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Boards! Accreditation! All the sexiest higher ed topics. 28029
Reposted by JstheaterAbby @arobertswrites.com · 21/07/2026Niche post but if you want to write a story about a queer person in Europe c. 500-1000 CE your best bet is researching transmasc monks because there are surprisingly a lot of them. 333441
Reposted by JstheaterMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 20/07/2026So, so, so many. It's exhausting. 021
Reposted by JstheaterDorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes! It's so weird and gross. 011
Reposted by JstheaterCatherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026just delete and the whole shitshow will dwindle. 011
Reposted by JstheaterKári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yeah, it’s everywhere, they’re even being sent to Icelandic authors in (not very idiomatic) Icelandic. I got ones discussing me and my books, but also for the author closest to me alphabetically on the Icelandic writer’s union‘s members’ directory. 011
Reposted by JstheaterSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yes!! And like the summaries are convincing 😩 011
Reposted by JstheaterThe Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Yup. Beyond annoying. Instant delete. 012
Reposted by JstheaterThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/07/2026After 22 years at the helm of the United Negro College Fund, Michael L. Lomax will step down as president and chief executive of the leading advocacy organization for historically Black colleges and universities.washingtonpost.comRetiring United Negro College Fund leader reflects on legacy, $4 billion raisedMichael L. Lomax will step down as president in June 2027. In an interview, he discusses his tenure and the challenges ahead for historically Black institutions. 12510
Reposted by JstheaterKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026State Department explicitly mentions "blacklists" and "McCarthy-era investigations" as effective tools at destroying the radical left. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli... 13588159
Reposted by JstheaterMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 20/07/2026The Guardian gets with the programme www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | EditorialEditorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed 28644
Reposted by Jstheaterobnoxiously pitt girl @opg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women 932489
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Serious q: has anyone else started receiving random AI-drafted emails from ppl linked to "book clubs" or "festivals" or Goodreads, etc., offering to promote specific books you've written? All of a sudden these emails are proliferating like kudzu. It's very recent & bizarre. 840
Reposted by JstheaterFOX 12 Oregon @fox12oregon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Mbappé becomes first two-time Golden Boot winner and Spain wins player awards after World Cup title >> www.kptv.com/2026/07/19/mbapp-becom… 011