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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“Who we love & how we love are inherently political. We declare our kinship through our actions & words in both explicit & subtle ways.”—Alice Wong, “Let’s Recognize Why #AccessIsLove” from Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is incredible. I didn’t realize it was this complex.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🚨New Episode Alert 🚨 Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with @smaran.bsky.social & Ben Baer about their groundbreaking new book, Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Last week, Ben Baer and I spoke to @arnabdr.bsky.social about our book Spider-Mother and Rokeya Hossain for the New Books Network podcast. You can listen to the episode at the link below. 🙂 So grateful for Arnab's excellent questions and planning of the interview. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

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QueensLink @queenslink.org · 27/01/2025

We're a third of the way there!! Thank you so much for your support!! Help us #BuildtheQueensLink by continuing to donate at the link in bio ✨

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The present-day parts of Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel classic, KINDRED, take place in Altadena. So devastating to see the Palisades fire’s destruction of the area. 😢 @teenvogue.bsky.social

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Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History

This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We Lacanians call it Lack Friday

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is aimed at young scholars in the UK (18-30). If you teach on those islands, let your students know.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some photos from this past weekend’s book event for Spider-Mother at Princeton. Thank you (again) to Ben Baer for his excellent translations and collaboration on this project, to @sadafjaffer.bsky.social for being in conversation with us, and to the Center for Global India for hosting us!

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I similarly feel like it helped me get my work out there and meet so many interesting people during the pandemic. It was painful to step away from it when things started to go south in 2022.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We’ll be reading the Parables in my Octavia Butler major authors class in the spring. Hoping against hope that it doesn’t read as any more prescient/prophetic than it already does.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Since we're all reconvening here, I thought I'd reshare some good news here: A project I’ve been working on all year was published this month: Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). 1/4

The book cover of Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. The cover is divided between an artwork by Chitra Ganesh above, titled Event Horizon, which is made up of a female cyborg-like super-hero figure appearing to fly through a net or geographic division of space, while another female-presenting figure looks up at her in wonder. The cover is black and white, with a yellowish color used in place of the white. Below the artwork, you see the names of the editors, Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal, listed, as well as the artist Chitra Ganesh.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

All my academic faves are gathering here! Rejoice. 🥳

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/11/2024

Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions. Christopher Newfield suggests the answer lies in redefining #HigherEducation around intellectual and social benefits, not monetary ones. Join us Mon, 11/18, @ 4pm EST on Zoom - register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/nov... 🗃️

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WHAT ARE THE HUMANITIES FOR? – WHAT ARE UNIVERSITIES FOR?

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 17/11/2024

I know a platform dying (which in internet terms mostly means not being what it once was anymore) can feel quite tragic, but @smaran.bsky.social remarking on this makes me hopeful: there’s people who will continue to cross your virtual path still!

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#ASA2024 book exhibit haul. Thanks, U Chicago Press!

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Currently at the American Studies Conf in Baltimore and people keep talking about getting active on Bluesky. All talk? Or does the Twitter crowd finally have a new home?

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Honored to contribute to this incredible anthology, out now! BLACK ART & AESTHETICS: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-art-and…

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

(1) Anyone else’s caloric intake look like this? (2) Apparently, even 7yrs in, my music taste hasn’t quite adapted to the local environment. 🥲

Image of a burger with different layers corresponding to different genders. The layers: float house, alternative r&b, lo-fi house, electronica, and deconstructed club.

A colorful map of Europe with Berlin, Germany highlighted. Text at the top of the image: “My Sound Town”

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Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I was rooting for Prophet Song to win! A work of dystopian speculative fiction takes the Booker this year. And with an Irish author winning the prize, its locus is once again where it should be: in the postcolonies.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

I would add: all of her work, incl. the most recent book on disability/debility, and other foundational work on queer people’s relation to nationalism and state power (Chandan Reddy, Paisley Currah, Matilda Bernstein Sycamore, Dean Spade, Eric Stanley, Sara Farris and others).

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Jenny Chanfreau @jenchanfreau.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

🚨PhD funding 🚨 2x fully funded Stuart Hall Foundation PhD fellowships available to Black, British scholars starting their PhD studies in October 2024 at Sussex. Proposed research should clearly address social justice issues. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex PGR Studentship : University of Sussex

PhD Scholarship, Stuart Hall Foundation University of Sussex Postgraduate Research Studentship

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Guardian reporting on the National Book Awards ceremony: amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...

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Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

We are sorry to learn of the death of philosopher Enrique Dussel, author of "Ethics of Liberation," "Twenty Theses on Politics," and the forthcoming "The Theological Metaphors of Marx." ow.ly/8fhG50Q687P

Photo of a white man with white hair and beard, wearing glasses. he is sitting at a table and holding a book in his left hand. His right hand is on his forehead. He is wearing a brown suit jacket and white collared shirt.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Rest in peace, Enrique Dussel.

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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

I don’t care what your associate dean tells you: you have to rest. Not half-hour cat nap. Rest for a whole day. You need to do what you like. You need to walk in fresh air. You need to see friends and family. In the long run, it will help you, particularly in the final stretch to tenure.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

WOW. A Black zombie anthology??? Yes please.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

There is no American Studies worth the name that doesn’t also account for political economy, empire, geopolitics, colonialism, and race in its frameworks and analysis. To be an Americanist is, by definition, to be a postcolonialist.

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Mutuals coming to the 2024 MLA, Oct 26th is the last day to get the lower registration rate. #PSA

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Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Why is this so accurate. Emails ‘assessment,’ committees, meetings. 😳

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Aditya Gotu Desai @adityadesai.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

a word for the dreams that render specific emotions from one part of your life through the people + places from another

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Potentially my most unpopular opinion: academics should make ALL their work freely available, including books and book chapters. What's the point of going to all that effort to write, if hardly anyone can afford to read your work..?

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