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Sharae Deckard

@sharaerua.bsky.social
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UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity with all the students across Ireland today protesting fees, the high cost of living and the lack of accommodation as part of the Fund Our Future national protest organised by AMLÉ. These pressures affect every class I teach!
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is TODAY! Please come to the UCD lake at noon to demand the right to study for all the Gazan students granted places and scholarships but denied visas!
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
UCD folks: Join us Thurs 17 Sept at 12 for a "Let Them Study" Stand Out at the lake by Tierney, to protest the DOJ's denial of student visas to Palestinians and to support the Gazan students' hunger strike. Organised by UCD Academia for Palestine, UCD SU and UCD BDS. #letthemstudy #freepalestine
Let Them Study! Palestinian students have been denied their student visas. The Department of Justice is denying their right to study. We call for their swift approval. Show your support by taking part in the Stand Out at Thursday 17 Sept at 12:00 noon. Meet by the Lake.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"With the Irish state, for the first time in a decade, refusing more Palestinian visa applications than it grants, as well widespread refusals for student visas for Palestinians, a group of international academics call off a gathering at Maynooth University." www.ontheditch.com/internationa...
ontheditch.com
International academics protest Palestinian visa refusals
The impact on the capacity for Palestinians to engage freely in intellectual exchange is grave
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Urgent! If you work in an Irish HEI, please sign and share this open letter asking the Dept of Justice to overturn its refusal of visas to Palestinian students who were supposed to be evacuated from Gaza to take up fully funded places and scholarships at Irish HEIs: openletter.earth/refusal-of-v...
openletter.earth
Refusal of Visas to Students from Gaza
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
TODAY: Protest at the Dept of Justice Friday 31st 11am, demanding that the government reverse their decision to refuse 33 Gazan students' visa applications and allow them to take up the places and scholarships they have been awarded because of their academic excellence
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Absolutely outrageous from our government, the reasons for refusal are a disgrace and the appeals process is impossible. Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students www.rte.ie/news/educati...
rte.ie
Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students
Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Congratulations to the fantastic Dr. Teddy Power, who successfully defended their thesis, "Queer and Subversive Adaptation Theory in Contemporary Fantasy Television" yesterday, and many thanks to Teddy's examiners and chair, @mjrsangster.bsky.social @marthashearer.bsky.social & Emilie Pine!
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Congratulations to the brilliant Dr. Poulomi Choudhury @choudhup.bsky.social, who successfully defended her thesis, "Abatthorror: Tracking the Animal-Industrial Complex in Cannibal Literature" on Wed, and many thanks to her examiners and chair, John Miller, Sarah Comyn, and Treasa De Loughry!
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
STOP THE CUTS at Exeter! Absolutely outrageous mismanagement; proposed redundances would decimate AHSS disciplines. A reckless attack on an institution which is not even in deficit. Please sign the petition below #defendexeteruni #stopthecuts www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
British universities paid to spy on students. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
aljazeera.com
British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact."
investigate-europe.eu
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
Environmental footprint of Europe's data centres kept secret after industry lobbying in a move legal experts warn could violate transparency rules.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
here.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
New from me, in @literaryhub.bsky.social : I consider how the scholasticide which US-Israel practiced in Gaza is now tragically expanding to Iran and Lebanon lithub.com/on-the-us-is...
lithub.com
On the US-Israeli Coalition’s Continued Acts of Scholasticide in the Middle East
With the killing of 175 school girls, educators, and parents in Minab, Iran, the latest chapter of the US-Israeli war in the Middle East began with a cruel act of scholasticide—a term many of us we…
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Short version of letter sent to the Taoiseach urging him to retain the triple lock and defend international law and the UN. Signed by 400+ academics & university workers. The handful of academics we read and hear from all the time in the media are outliers. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Our leaders must show courage in commitment to peace by keeping the triple lock
We urge the government to use this moment of heightened conflict to retain the triple lock and speak out against obvious breaches of international law and efforts to undermine the UN
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Reckoning • EQUATOR
Hormuz and the end of American hegemony
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
obsessed with this article
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Dark clouds, black rain, flaming skies, a whole region turned sacrifice zone, climate war. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds
Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Ice flight stopped at Shannon on Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians So we are facilitating deportations by the brutish, murderous ICE-here deporting Ukrainians back to war zone. On top of the delivery of the bowl of shamrock this is just shameful #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
irishtimes.com
Ice flight stopped at Shannon Airport on St Patrick’s Day while deporting Ukrainians
Private jet hired by Ice agency also stopped on its return journey to Arizona
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Ireland-based academics and university workers, please sign this letter urging the Irish govt to maintain the 'triple lock' and Irish neutrality, and to promote the values enshrined in the UN Charter and our constitution at this time of escalating militarisation: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Open letter from Irish academics on the Triple Lock and Irish neutrality
An Taoiseach, Mr. Micheál Martin TD Department of the Taoiseach Government Buildings Merrion Street Dublin 2 A Thaoisigh, On behalf of the undersigned academics and university workers we write to rei...
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
TODAY! Wed 12:30 outside O'Reilly Hall. Join staff and students "calling for systemic change in how UCD responds to sexual violence and gender-based harm...and to call for survivor-centred practices, institutional accountability, and cultural reform." universityobserver.ie/not-in-our-u...
universityobserver.ie
‘Not in Our UCD’ rally to be held tomorrow | University Observer
UCDSU has announced a protest occurring this Wednesday, March 4th, outside O’Reilly Hall at 12.30pm.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For UCD colleagues who are on campus tomorrow (Wed 4th March), please join this call to action put out by members of the Student's Union, asking for staff and students to mobilize outside O'Reilly Hall in protest of UCD's treatment of a sexual assault survivor and to call for accountability:
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Today at 1 PM outside Tierney by the lake! UCD Standout for Palestine!
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
TOMORROW: UCD Stand Out for Palestine as part of ICTU's National Day of Workplace Actions in solidarity with Palestine! UCD Justice for Palestine and student organisers from BDS, SNF and SU ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM, Fri 28 Nov.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
thecanary.co
Tom Hanks on mask wearing: "I’ve had COVID enough in my life”
Tom Hanks has joined a growing movement of COVID-conscious artists who are openly speaking up about the threats of the disease
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Clare Kelly @clarenicheall.bsky.social l who passed her viva yesterday, defending her thesis on "Orality and Authorship: African Storyteller-Authors in the Literary Marketplace" with poise and articulacy. It was a pleasure to read and examine her work alongside Madhu Krishnan!
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
TOMORROW: UCD Walk Out for Gaza, Thurs 16 Oct! UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the rally by Tierney at 1 PM and help gear up for a renewed campaign for full boycott of Israeli universities and research partnerships #standoutforgaza1610
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Congratulations Dr. Deborah Schrijvers who passed her viva with flying colours on Monday with her thesis on "Against Imperial Extinction Narratives", and many thanks to her examiners Robert McKay and Patrick Brodie, and chair Niamh Pattwell! w/ @marthashearer.bsky.social
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Chris @cc42.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If you can, please read Naoise Dolan writing about her treatment after being illegally abducted by Israel from the Thousand Madleens flotilla. It's pretty chilling, and it's a drop in the ocean compared to what they subject Palestinians to. #spéirgorm
naoise.substack.com
What happened, in brief
That time Israel kidnapped me
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
UCD BDS & UCD Justice for Palestine ask UCD students and workers to join the national Workplace Standout for Gaza on 16th Oct at 1 PM. Walk outside your workplace with a sign or flag, and if you can, join the rally organised by UCD students in front of Newman Arts at 1 PM.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If any folks from UCD would like to march together at this Saturday's big national demonstration, please join UCD Justice for Palestine (I'll be holding a sign) at 12:15 outside of the Hugh Lane Gallery. It would be great to meet other folks and share in solidarity!
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Eyes on Gaza where apartheid Israel is carpet bombing and now threatening with mass murder the people in Gaza City. This must end. #GazaGenocide Israeli Defense Minister: Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...
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Israeli Defense Minister says half a million Palestinians in Gaza City will be considered ‘terrorists’ if they don’t evacuate
With at least half a million people still left in Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a “final warning” for residents to evacuate, saying those who remain will be regarded as “terro...
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ships in the Global Sumud flotilla are being intercepted, including the Spectre. Irish-resident friends, please call and email Simon Harris now to condemn Israel's illegal abduction of peaceful citizens and demand safety for all aboard the flotilla: Phone: 016194000 Email: tanaiste@tanaiste.gov.ie
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Automated template to email Irish government TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure its safe passage to bring aid to Gaza: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/fl...
action.uplift.ie
Flotilla under attack
The Global Sumud Flotilla has been bombed with Irish citizens on board. I have just emailed my TDs calling on them to condemn the bombing of the Global Sumud Flotilla and to ensure the blockade of Gaz...
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The Gaza Aid flotilla organisers say they have "credible intelligence that Israel is likely to escalate violent attacks on the flotilla within the next 48 hours". All eyes on flotilla, all eyes on Gaza! www.thejournal.ie/gaza-aid-flo...
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Gaza flotilla organisers say thay have 'credible intelligence' pointing to more Israeli attacks
The flotilla organisers are set to hold a press conference later today.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"We repeat our demands that UCD end its current partnerships with Israeli universities, commit to refusing any future such partnerships, and to join efforts that seek to exclude Israeli universities from European funding initiatives." academicsforpalestine.org/2025/09/19/u...
academicsforpalestine.org
UCD Partnership with Israeli Universities
With the recent UN report on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the expanded invasion of Gaza City, and the renewal of campus activism at UCD, we are publishing a letter written to UCD President Orla…
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2025
“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
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In Defense Of Mass Censorship
When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions" uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
uppsaladeclaration.se
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Nuanced investigation from Bellingcat confirming that the #globalsumudflotilla was indeed struck by incendiary munitions dropped by drones. Up the flotilla, solidarity with all the courageous folks sailing to break the siege and bring aid to Gaza! #FreePalestine www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
bellingcat.com
Incendiary Munitions Strike Gaza-bound Flotilla Two Nights in a Row - bellingcat
On September 8 and 9, two vessels of the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were attacked outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. Bellingcat analysed footage and images from both incidents. ...
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We take the win and we keep pushing, Occupied Territories Bill with services included is next. #StopFundingGenocide IPSC chair Zoë Lawlor: “today is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine”. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
irishtimes.com
Central Bank of Ireland confirms it will no longer approve sale of Israeli ‘war bonds’
Use of Irish prospectus to market Israel bonds has been hugely controversial
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Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Since the genocide began the EU has given Israeli tech start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants designed to support civilian projects. Some of this tech has been used in Gaza. Some of the founders have even served in Gaza www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...
donotpanic.news
EU Science Grants Are Funding Israeli Military Technology
The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants since the start of the Gaza genocide.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"The vast gap between the calories Gaza needs, and the food that has entered since March makes clear that Israeli officials are doing different maths today. They cannot pass responsibility for this human-made famine to anyone else, and nor can their allies" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
'Earlier Jewish leftists built a Jewish left-and a critique of Zionism-out of the terrain autochthonous to the United States: one in which racial oppression, a rapacious bourgeoisie, a bloated military budget...are the norm rather than the exception' portside.org/2025-07-22/l...
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The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left
This is an excerpt from Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left by Benjamin Balthaser, out this week with Verso Books. === As historian Karen Brodkin tel...
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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New review of Oil Fictions! stm.cairn.info/revue-revue-... (The full text is also freely accessible! directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.50...) #energy #oilfictions @amitav.bsky.social @sharaerua.bsky.social @wordbird20.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @chiday.bsky.social @ashdawson.bsky.social
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Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere (Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, 2021)
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