Reposted by k’eguroGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 7h+ discomfort is not given the same moral weight, which is an example of US imperialism in action, where the Chinese State is exceptionalised, but it’s perfectly normal for US soldiers to be at a WorldCon. 121
Reposted by k’eguroGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 7hI’m comparing it to the pushback around Chengdu because of the Chinese State’s policies & the discomfort attendees would feel - and the double standards, given that someone like me might feel extremely uncomfortable around US soldiers who go around blowing up people with my skin colour — but that + 121
Reposted by k’eguroGautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 7hReading Jeremy Scahill’s new investigation of the US massacre of 160 schoolkids at Minab and thinking about the “veterans at Worldcon.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho... 121
Reposted by k’eguroKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 6hThis is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume. 0166
Reposted by k’eguroVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 5hMy third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 37407139
Reposted by k’eguroVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4hUpdating my website and really enjoying the progression of the covers deeper into said skit 0444
Reposted by k’eguroOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you are or will be in London, head to Gallery Ibraaz for Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy, Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Earshot and more. ibraaz.org/whats-on/a-l...ibraaz.orgA Lifework of Mourning | IbraazTo mark the opening of Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy at Ibraaz, Gabrielle Goliath, Christina Sharpe and Sara Nadal-Melsió join to discuss how mourning can facilitate a praxis of gathered grief, refusal an... 22015
Reposted by k’eguroPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4hCPE highlighted the importance of striving to be “regular, rigorous, and reliable.” lithub.com/regular-rigo...lithub.com“Regular, rigorous, and Reliable.” How to Keep Fighting for a Better WorldWe can cultivate qualities that help us to stick around in struggle. This is something that came up when I spoke in 2023 with Philadelphia activist Suzy Subways about her decades of movement experi… 32613
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 18hMore trees being cut in Nairobi so that more roads and malls and apartments can be built. Trees being cut down because rain is coming. Fact and metaphor. 030
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 18h@nanjala.bsky.social I saw the most glorious Jacaranda in bloom yesterday and was happy for the brief time it took to remember that Nairobi used to have so many more 120
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 18hIt’s all very “Lexicographicide,” the short story by Taban lo Liyong that more people should read and teach and discuss. 021
Reposted by k’eguroBlacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 22hA lil bit of fall on the balcony. 0151
Reposted by k’eguroAnthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 20hAll this talk of optimizing and getting somewhere (nowhere) fast. Connected to disconnection. Our lives don't have enough poetry in them. 0123
Reposted by k’eguroSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If you haven’t read my work (latest book in French) and understand French, the younger gen are making reels out of it and speaking of it with far more accuracy than I ever could. So humbled with this reel! 02912
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Comparative El Niño Studies: Or, surely some of you clever people are tracking how El Niño is being discussed (or not) across the multiple geohistories it will affect. Which geohistories have actual plans and which—like Kenya—are running on thots & prayers. 151
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026a lot of older tv shows are now available on youtube lots have what we’d once have described as “casual” (but never accidental) racism and sexism I don’t think this is accidental: as desires for authenticity turn away from the tech present, we wade into the toxic past this is not inevitable 130
Reposted by k’eguroOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ScALE. 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! 25730
Reposted by k’eguroKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Statements like "44% of businesses surveyed already use AI" are basically meaningless. What is AI? 5212
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026In talking with a friend, I learn about the practice of a care plan. I wonder if grad students should develop care plans along with dissertation proposals. We can extend this to all academic labour. 030
Reposted by k’eguroPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience.” W.E.B Du Bois - Black Reconstruction 626147
Reposted by k’eguroKip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026The tragedy of our commons: I want to read discussions about a thing, and all I can find are places to buy the thing. 1287
Reposted by k’eguroMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes, dahlias are glamorous in the sun, but look how emotional this dahlia looks in the rain, she's a treasure, for sure 🌺💕 1302
Reposted by k’eguroOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Registration is now open. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...yorku.caThe Alchemy LectureThe Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in... 25834
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026(instant flashback to people being punished to cut grass after that brutality) 000
Reposted by k’eguroOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Notice all the black writers being accused of using AI in their works. Notice. 110745
Reposted by k’eguroaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026working in a bookstore in a time of literary scandal really does emphasize there being no such thing as bad publicity everyone wants that book today 1133
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpc...youtube.comTimex Social Club - RumoursYouTube video by CoCoRiTaS 000
Reposted by k’eguroNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026For many political leaders the general assembly is an excellent platform for cosplaying leadership. 071
Reposted by k’eguroNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Front page of one of the Kenyan newspapers. 055
Reposted by k’eguroKaren from Finance @blkreparations.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Coming to the Internet to claim you’re taking accountability for a missed appointment when you should have messaged to cancel the appointment is whack. And having the audacity to say “It would have taken me 3 seconds to message her to cancel” is even worse. Beyond the pale. 021
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQD...youtube.comBRENDA & THE BIG DUDES - Weekend Special (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Brenda Fassie 011
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026Many years ago, a young person told me many Kenyans dreamed of working at the UN. Not because they wanted to change the world, but because it was a steady job with good money. I think we need to start there if we are to understand what the UN means in Africa. Not ideals of human rights. 091
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026There’s a book to be written—or many articles—about what the UN means to Africa’s professional class, and about figures like Amos Wako, who are credentialed by their work in the UN and return to Kenya to prop up a dictator. 121
Reposted by k’eguroshaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 25/09/2026Don't let ignorant westerners convince you that the United Nations is broken, "hijacked", or whatever. It's not! The UN is working exactly as intended. An entity created by capitalist and white supremacist western liberal democracies, as a way of protecting their imperialist and genocidal interests. 1329
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026We alone are responsible for the preservation and future of our literature. If we don’t buy our books, they won’t get published. If we don’t talk about our books, they won’t get reviewed. If we don’t write our books, they won’t get written. —Melvin Dixon, “I’ll be Somewhere Listening for My Name" 1124
Reposted by k’eguroBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 24/09/2026Airports should be less excruciating. 61278
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026people who are unwilling to believe you will not do so even if you use the methods they claim to trust and believe it’s a nice way to think about the politics of method, or method as libidinal investment 020
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I’m not sure I remember how to address an informal snail mail letter. I know how to address a formal one! Though that has also changed. We no longer do the right and left side—was the left one your address or the other person’s address? Primary school was a long time ago! 030
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I mean one doesn’t get any kind of straightforward developmental narrative in Freud it’s all loops and missteps and the psychic formation doesn’t distinguish between the real and imagined it’s people forgetting umbrellas so they can return to retrieve them 110
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I am drafting a keynote titled “Queer Practice,” where I name four elements of such practice: 1. Mourning 2. Militancy 3. Carework 4. Worldbuilding It gathers stuff I’ve been thinking about for a while and attempts to articulate something about what queer has meant and might mean now. 180
Reposted by k’eguroMarcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026another review of Revolting Indolence at Latino Studies journal. Ever grateful for the folks engaging/working with my little treatise on indolence. 131
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I am surprised to see Classics department being eliminated. Perhaps more than anything else (yes, I’m being hyperbolic) that signals a shift in conservatism. In an older version, Latin and Greek were esteemed as holders of culture and knowledge. If nothing else, they were biblical languages. 030
Reposted by k’eguroNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 24/09/2026All this videos of William Ruto walking around Manhattan... The man has not walked around in public in Kenya since the 1990s. We literally have to shut down city traffic so that he can drive from his home to his office or to the airport. But I guess Kool-Aid is great this time of year. 162
Reposted by k’eguroJoseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Very grateful to see that Speculative Relations received an honorable mention for the ASA John Hope Franklin Prize this year.💛 Congratulations to Kimberly Juanita Brown for the brilliant Black Elegies, which received the award, and to fellow honorable mention David Serlin. theasa.net/wp-content/u...theasa.net 0111
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Massive Meat Recall (how is this not the title of an erotic series?) 130
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026fox8.com/news/massive...fox8.comMassive meat recall on beef, pork and more: USDAThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of f… 011
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I had put away the essentialism/constructionism feminist thinking from the 80s and 90s, but given the massive return of biologism across many domains—sports, foreign aid, popular culture, medicine—I’m glad those earlier tools still exist. 181
