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education at Words Without Borders • translator (FR-EN) • overcaffeinated (she/her/elle) wwb-campus.org

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that."  

Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 06/02/2026
NEW YORK’S CUTEST
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It can get lower!
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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Mood in minneapolis right now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Abolishing ICE is now at record approval. Renee Good's murder has ignited US disgust at taxes going to ICE, as Republicans cut everything else. GOP needs Democrat votes to fund gov't. Why are some Dems not using that power to cut ICE $$? And why do they say "No New Funding" — not "No Funding"?
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Will Democrats Vote to Give Trump More Money for ICE?
Americans increasingly want to see ICE abolished. Yet, Democrats could soon help Trump expand his violent anti-immigration campaign.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/01/2026
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on ICE’s justification for the shooting: “Having seen the video I can tell you that is bullshit…to ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Emmanuel Chastellière @gillossen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA" Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/ #traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Depuis quelques semaines, plusieurs dizaines de traducteurs et traductrices travaillant régulièrement avec les éditions Harlequin reçoivent les unes après les autres un appel téléphonique leur annonçant la fin de leur collaboration avec la maison d’édition. Leurs contrats en cours seront les derniers.
Collection par collection, Harlequin abandonne la traduction : un prestataire externe, l’agence de communication Fluent Planet, se chargera de passer les textes dans un logiciel de « traduction automatique » et de recruter directement en freelance des relecteurs et relectrices chargées de post-éditer la sortie machine en français. L’objectif affiché est de gagner en rentabilité en rognant sur le temps de travail.
C’est, à notre connaissance, la première fois en France qu’une maison d’édition passe à grande échelle à la « traduction automatique » et à la post-édition, de surcroît en externalisant cette activité. Dès lors, mérite-t-elle encore le nom de « maison d’édition » ? De telles pratiques sont inacceptables. Des personnes, parfois collaboratrices de longue date de la maison, perdent brutalement une source de revenus régulière, ne se voyant offrir comme compensation que la possibilité (sans aucune garantie, d’ailleurs) de travailler au rabais pour un prestataire externe, Fluent Planet, au lieu de traduire pour une maison d’édition. Une perspective que beaucoup des traducteurs et traductrices concernées refusent.
Pour cesser de travailler avec nous, artistes-auteurs et autrices, pas besoin de licenciement ni de préavis, même si la collaboration a été régulière pendant cinq, dix, voire vingt ans. La réalité de la perte brutale d’activité et de revenus n’en est pas moins là. Nous subissons de plein fouet la précarité extrême de notre condition d’artistes-autrices et auteurs : nous n’avons aucun droit au chômage, et certaines personnes concernées proches de l’âge de la retraite ne pourront même pas compter sur une pension décente du fait du non-appel des cotisations de la part de l’AGESSA. Dans ces circonstances, nous devons en tant que profession nous élever collectivement face à ce qui s’apparente à un plan social invisible.Ces pratiques sont une trahison des travailleurs et travailleuses du livre, mais aussi une trahison du lectorat. C’est brader totalement l’activité de traduction, au mépris des personnes qui traduisent et de celles qui lisent. C’est mettre le doigt dans l’engrenage de la dégradation des productions éditoriales, dans une logique délétère du « good enough » (qualité passable) qui dépossède les travailleurs et travailleuses du livre de leur savoir-faire et de leur créativité, et le lectorat d’un accès à une littérature humaine et vivante.
Travailleurs, travailleuses du livre, directions de maisons d’édition, lecteurs, lectrices : refusons que la « traduction automatique » mette le pied dans la porte des maisons d’édition et réaffirmons notre attachement inconditionnel à des textes humains, créés par des humaines et des humains, dans des conditions de travail dignes.Avec le soutien de :
ATAA, Association des traducteurs et adaptateurs de l'audiovisuel
ATLAS - Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire - CITL 
Collectif IA-lerte générale
CAAP - Comité Pluridisciplinaire des Artistes-Auteurs·trices
Editeurs du Sud
Fill, Fédération interrégionale du livre et de la lecture
Ligue des auteurs professionnels 
Réseau Les Résidences pour l'art d'écrire
Saif - Société des Auteurs des arts visuels et de l'Image Fixe
SdS, Syndicat Des Scénaristes
Section des correctrices et correcteurs du SGLCE-CGT (Syndicat général du Livre et de la Communication écrite CGT)
SFT - Société française des traducteurs
SNAPcgt • Syndicat National des Artistes Plasticien·nes cgt
STAA-CNT-SO, Syndicat des Travailleur.euse.s Artistes / Auteurs
Sud Culture Solidaires Métiers du Livre
Toute organisation peut encore soutenir ce communiqué en adressant un mail à : presidence@atlf.org
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 05/12/2025
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'.


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We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. 

We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'.Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'.WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT
COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING
TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT
ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT
ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S
APPALLING.

REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE
SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID
OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY
BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE
PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN
DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT
HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE.

WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT
COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS
COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT
THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE
CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS.

LOVE,
HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳 wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...
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László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders
László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.
NYT GUEST ESSAY
Barnard President: Now Is the lime for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/08/2025
JUST IN: At least six children are being treated following a Minneapolis school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School.
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At least six children are being treated following a Minneapolis school shooting
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he was "praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence." The shooting occurred at Annunciation Catholic School.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Anyone who knows the first thing about literary translation knows that direct translations are often impossible, and that creative, nuanced, sympathetic solutions must be found due to unfamiliar idioms, imagery, rhyming schemes, etc while balancing author motifs and style. AI simply can't do that.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 07/07/2025
Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 25/06/2025
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I wouldn't want to be the gas pedal on the car Andrew Cuomo drives back to his home not in New York City tonight.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
you know, on the evidence, "pundit" is a title you just sort of give yourself and then talk like you earned it. on these grounds: I've seen enough. I'm calling the race for Mamdani
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Nino Sarratore has endorsed Andrew Cuomo
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 23/06/2025
Job alert! Support lit in translation as @wwborders.bsky.social's social media coordinator.
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Maggie @maggievelvet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Join us next month!
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
At WWB Campus, we bring global literature into the classroom with author visits. This week, we had the privilege of arranging visits from Dominican poet Frank Báez, who gave presentations and workshops in NYC schools. Thank you to Frank and to the students and teachers who opened their classrooms!
Frank Báez standing in front of a sketch of himself with the text "Bienvenido a FDR Frank Báez"Frank Báez lecturing in front of a classroom with several of his book covers projected on the wall behind him.Frank Báez signing a book in front of a classroomFrank Báez lecturing in a high school classroom in front of a presentation with a photograph and the text "my family in Mexico City."
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I wrote about the NEA cuts and that overwhelming feeling when so many different orgs and people need our money. But there are some answers in here too, courtesy of @michaelholtmann.bsky.social and @markkrotov.bsky.social. lithub.com/on-the-lates...
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On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump
There’s an ongoing crisis in book publishing. I mean, there are many, but corporate consolidation is a threat to anyone who cares about books. When there are fewer publishers, both large and small,…
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature.
The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: 

"Literature is how we create the world we want to live in. But that world is threatened by the administration's cuts to the NEA and the rich arts landscape it once supported. And the work we do to uplift bold, innovative global writing is newly at risk."The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: 

"Like many other arts organizations across the country, we learned on Friday night that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated because our work “no longer aligns” with the administration’s priorities.

Moving forward, we cannot rely on funding that has sustained our magazine and our programs for well over a decade. Yet despite these challenges, we stand firm in our mission to amplify global literary voices and invite readers to explore a wider world through literature."The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: 

"If you, like us, believe in the power of global stories, here’s what you can do in this destabilizing moment to support WWB and our vision of literature that embraces global interconnectedness:"A set of green text boxes organized above the social media logos for Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn, as well as a black button with white text reading "wordswithoutborders.org" and "wwb-campus.org". Two images, one of a teacher instructing students in a classroom and one of a selfie of smiling folks at a WWB event, are interspersed with the text boxes. The boxes contain calls-to-action to support WWB, including to donate, to subscribe to newsletters, to joine WWB Campus for free, to meet us at our free public events, and to follow us on social media and share our posts.
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Maggie @maggievelvet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This high school student blew me away with her writing! I had a great time working with her on edits and am so glad to give the piece a home on our blog. Give it a read!
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
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Magali Lesauvage @maglesauvage.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
« La déshumanisation des personnes qui se trouvent de l’autre côté de nos murs, c’est la zone d’intérêt »
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Maggie @maggievelvet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It’s finally here!! 21 works from 7 countries and territories across the Caribbean, with more than half of them published bilingually. I hope you’ll click around and explore the hundreds of linked learning resources and dozens of lesson plans in the unit. Honored to have helped this together 💚
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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social
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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I hope you'll join me & all these lovely people as we celebrate & launch a unit on teaching Caribbean writers for @wwborders.bsky.social !
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/02/2025
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.
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A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee
In the satirical "guide" below, cartoonist Mana Neyestani draws on his own experience as an Iranian refugee in Paris.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read  "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: buff.ly/42OdRR3
A lightbulb hanging over an empty couch with the quote “And meanwhile, if we are secure as translators, I propose that we are able to read and understand the source text, to see and appreciate what it is doing, and then to take a few steps away, like the child in Ainsworth’s experiment, and play on our own in a corner...” and the text “'Is That a Familiar Feeling?' by Rosalind Harvey"
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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
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Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Excited for WWB Campus’s Caribbean unit? Get a sneak peek with this bilingual celebration of Afro-Caribbean language, alongside learning and teaching resources: buff.ly/3PX0lTr
A blue ocean landscape
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/01/2025
OpenAI right now
Scene from The Princess Bride where Vizzinni says "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen"
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Let your children know that if ICE/Border Patrol comes to their schools, they do not have to answer questions - even if an adult tells them it's okay to talk.
Let your children know that if ICE/Border Patrol comes to their schools, they do not have to answer questions - even if an adult tells them it's okay to talk.
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Maggie @maggievelvet.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚
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the albatross @kelseygq.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Excerpt from a David Lynch interview: ‘Lynch considers. "No. I don't have pets. Well, I had a dog named Sparky once, a Jack Russell terrier that I say was the love of my life. I like dogs, but then when you go out you worry about them."
"Maybe you need something smaller," suggests the interviewer. "I have a mouse."
Lynch perks up. "A little mouse, huh? And he's your pal! Well, isn't that great. I live near an overlook, and there was this guy who would put his mouse into the cockpit of a remote-controlled glider and float him out over Hollywood. I guess the mouse really dug it."’
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Maggie @maggievelvet.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
No one talk to me rn
B&W image of David Lynch wearing sunglasses. 
Caption: “What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd”
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Announcement for all early-career translators: submissions to this year’s Momentum Grant, judged by Julia Sanches, are due 2/28! Learn more about eligibility, submissions, and the Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators: buff.ly/3CnAgK5
Alt Text: an abstract purple and pink design with the text “Words Without Borders announces the third annual MOMENTUM GRANT for Early-Career Translators. Apply by February 28, 2025”
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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
En pointe into the New Year--
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