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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 10h

It's Clive Barker's birthday! Here's something I wrote this summer about his early stories (and those of the great Joel Lane): reactormag.com/poetry-from-...

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Poetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane - Reactor

At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16h

First Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. the Ignyte Award, a Palestinian gothic-horror novel, Greg Egan, new Indian SFF, and more. As always, subscribe if you’d like this fortnightly in your inbox.

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Words for Worlds - Issue 133

Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter!

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 19h

Directing traffic while talking on the phone.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 20h

The way climate change affects long-standing traditions: how Indigenous Peoples' Day is the new Labor Day, sartorially speaking.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 22h

I wonder how Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure is read now, given that I suspect contemporary readers are not placing it within the been-to category. Whatever frame is used, Ambiguous Adventure is a gorgeous book. Wonderful prose.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“slop assumes a different kind of relationship between general and particular than is assumed in most of the political philosophy grounding US law” www.its-her-factory.com/2026/10/slop...

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Slop as a vector of private interest: abstraction, songwriting, and extraction after the public/private divide

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

G’bye master! What a coincidence — I’m currently rereading this novel trying to understand his skill. And he’s gone. Rise in power Cheikh Hamidou Kane. Postcolonial literature has lost a giant of letters.

Cover of L’aventure ambiguë by Cheikh Hamidou Kane

« De manière significative L'aventure ambiguë, histoire d'un itinéraire spirituel, porte en sous-titre récit. Ce qui frappe en effet le lecteur de ce livre, c'est le classicisme dû autant à la retenue du ton qu'à la portée universelle de la réflexion philosophique.
Sans doute l'auteur oppose-t-il à la pensée technique de l'Occident, essentiellement tournée vers l'action, la pensée de l'Islam, repliée sur elle-même, mais, au-delà de cette confrontation, c'est finalement le problème de l'existence qui est posé. On voit par là comment Cheikh Hamidou Kane, échappant à la donnée temporelle et politique de son sujet, l'angoisse d'être noir, débouche sur une réflexion qui nous concerne tous :
l'angoisse d'être homme. »
. Chevrier, Le Monde
Préface de Vincent Monteil
"Domaine étranger" dirigé par Jean-Claude Zylberstein
CATÉGORIE 3
ISBN 978-2-264-03693-3
Masque Dan, Côte d'Ivoire (détail)
Photo © Lindsay Hebberd / Corbis

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

(The distorted answer is that Comprehensive Sex Education supports “autonomous sexual rights for minor children,” because providing children with sex education should not happen. Let us keep them ignorant, even as reports indicate that first—and nonconsensual—experiences start before the age of 10.)

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

it’s naming things that do not exist! Which official documents where support "autonomous sexual rights for children (of minor age)”?

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

It’s a fascinating document, providing just enough right-sounding stuff (seed sovereignty, anti-imperial rhetoric, African cooperation) to lubricate its anti-trans, anti-abortion, anti-lgbt, anti-sex education, pro-patriarchy, pro-heteronormative vision.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

All of this is part of rejecting "Sexual-Social Cultural Imperialism." The Draft Charter appears on no official AU website, so it’s tempting to dismiss it. I prefer not to.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

So, this document—The Draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty, and Values—implicitly claims that it’s okay for girls and women to get HPV—instead of the vaccine against HPV—because antibiotics exist. Even after we know the connection between HPV and cervical cancer. (Chapter 5.1.r).

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

We could be pedantic and insist that maize is not indigenous to East Africa—or Africa, broadly. But I think there’s something useful to staying with her sense of indigenous as passed along, as shared.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

A Kenyan TikToker keeps discussing maize as indigenous, and contrasts the many varieties she grows with the 2 or 3 varieties provided by mainstream seed companies. By indigenous—the term she uses is closer to traditional—she means something like passed along, shared.

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Frank Shyong @frankshyong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Japanese Americans once grew most of the state’s celery in Venice Beach. After a month of searching, I found some still growing wild in Ballona Creek this past weekend. wrote about it in Lunch Box. frankbear.substack.com/p/japanese-c...

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

I am very anticolonial, the influencer screams Notice how very anticolonial I am, the influencer insists

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In this issue of Prisons, Prose & Protest, my comrade & friend Holly Krig writes about the effort to obtain a pardon for abuse survivor Keshia Golden, I recommend a podcast about police sexual violence as well as several recent articles and essays, and more...

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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #43

Rants, Musings and More

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When they cannot remove the violence from the papers, fhey remove the papers. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/on-par-wit...

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“On Par with a Handshake”

Violence and Paperwork

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Madrid Marathon cancelled the results of several people they suspected of cheating. The gag is they were cheating to get a Boston Qualifying time i.e. cheating at a marathon so that they can earn the right to *checks notes* run another marathon. And also a medal and a banana.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now here’s a kind of book I’ve never read before: Palestinian gothic horror, set in Haifa, and explicitly about the ‘48 Nakba and its consequences.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Friendship and Academic Citation: A Brief and Hilarious Analysis (titles that matter) ✍🏿

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In "Up Against the Archive," edited by Antoinette Burton, scholars experiment with anti-imperial forms of writing history, attending to archival silences and reassessing traditional disciplinary modes and forms. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/SZFDCMy

Cover of Up Against the Archive: Experiments in Writing British Empire History Otherwise by Antoinette Burton. The cover resembles a notebook, with the spine in brown and the cover in textured teal that has faint writings with map-like markings and circles. The title is in large white serif text across the upper half. The subtitle is centered in smaller white text, with the editor's name at the bottom in white, small, capitalized text.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dr. Kelly Miller coined the term "mouthamatician" years ago and it applies to so many people right now. My goodness.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’ve got to respect the moon’s commitment to not being photographed.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So many different kinds of exhaustion, and they're all so exhausting. I would say when does this end but it doesn't. So many different kinds of exhaustion. I would say when does this end but it doesn't. So many different kinds of exhaustion.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

(Just as, in another register, I suspect that recording technologies have fundamentally changed how many people experience sexual pleasure.)

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Something about relation—making relations, staying in relations, having good relations—is truncated by this approach to the elder as a recording technology. (I suspect historians have richer ways of thinking through this particular whatever it is that’s nagging at me.)

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

This prompted by a common sentiment that the loss of an older person—an elder, some say—means a library has been lost. Perhaps. But I am also wary about how the hyper-documenting now might cause us to misrecognize the elder as a kind of hyperdocumenting technology whose material we need to acquire.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

And I wonder if our hyperdocumenting now might obscure some of the creative methods we still need to apprehend—is apprehend the term?—the nowness of now.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I suspect there’s something about our hyperdocumenting present that has intensified anxieties about history, archives, memory, the past (add other terms). I do not think the absence of hyperdocumented befores impoverishes those befores. It means we use different methods to think toward them.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

these lines have been much with me over the past few years the joining of femicide to ecocide (femicide as a political vernacular across Africa, not sure if it’s used elsewhere)

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

if we lose someday women’s blood will congeal upon a dead planet if we win there is no telling. —Audre Lorde, “Outlines”

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“What did love feel like? She wondered. Into her eyes came the picture of Cholly and Mrs Breedlove in bed. He making sounds as though he were in pain, as though something had him by the throat and wouldn't let go. Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Each time I see an announcement of the banning of THE BLUEST EYE, I pick up the book from its pride of place on my desk, open it to a random page, and read a passage aloud, relishing its lyricism. "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die."

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

which nation is it poetry day in though

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Independence Day to Nigeria at 66. #NigeriaAt66 Though I am not sure about the independence or the happiness... or even the Nigerianess. Even the 66 is suspect. Alright... Day.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

the only notable thing about that tourism stuff is that an event like the World Cup boosts tourism but given that people couldn’t get visas oh well

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Whatever version of ai being used by Kenyan companies spams a lot. 20+ messages over 5 hours with the same notification. It needs to stop.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is dictator’s prerogative to be inconsistent. To be contradictory. There is one rule: follow the dictator’s lead.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People want the dictator to make sense. lol. Pointing out the dictator’s love for other non-capitalist dictators. Well let me tell you. Dictators are only interested and committed to making sense to themselves. Everyone else must fall in line. So stop the bullshite pointing out his inconsistencies.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, SOCIAL DISTANCING will be out on March 2, 2027 from @semiotexte.bsky.social, look at the gorgeous cover!!🌺Galleys coming soon, so let me know if you need an advance copy for any potential media coverage🌺Gorgeous blurbs by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Johanna Hedva, & Amina Cain below, get ready🌺

The book cover for SOCIAL DISTANCING by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, featuring a very tall skinny pine tree stretching at an angle to the sky, trunk bending backwards to avoid the diagonal electrical wires, the photo is cyanotype, so bright blue on white, and then the title is in a magenta diagonal font with sharp letters at the bottom of the electrical wires, author name in white script above the wood slat fence at the bottom.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

+ 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.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’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 +

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading 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...

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This 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.

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