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"The plantation is the belly of the world. Partus sequitur ventrem—the child follows the belly." Hartman:
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The soul of my mother, though shrouded in a sable covering, broke through the gloom of night, and shone celestial in her sparkling eyes! - Sprung from a race of native kings and heroes, with folded hands, and tearful eyes, she saw herself torn from all the endearing ties of affinity, and relative intercourse! A gloomy, yet a proud sorrow, filled her indignant breast; and when exhibited on the shores of my native island, the symmetry and majesty of her form, the inflexible haughtiness of her manner, attracted the attention of Mr. Fairfield. He purchased the youthful Marcia; his kindness, his familiarity, his humanity, soon gained him an interest in her grateful heart! She loved her master! She had not learned the art of concealing her sentiments, she knew not that she was doing wrong in indulging them, and she yielded herself to her passion, and fell victim of gratitude! - But as her understanding became enlightened, and her manners improved, she was eager for information; my father yielded it to her from the rich stores of his own capacious mind; and while he poured into her attentive and docile ear, those truths for which the soul of Marcia panted, he made her start with horror at the crime of which she had been innocently guilty: and the new Christian pointed her finger at him, who, educated under the influence of the Gospel, lived in direct opposition to its laws!
Today in my 18thc Lit class we read the opening of the novel The Woman of Colour (1808) with Saidiya Hartman's 'The Belly of the World' as depicting the foundational structure of the heteropatriarchal white supremacist-Epstein class of today. "The slave ship is a womb/abyss" 1/
Dr Osborne specialises in Caribbean history, the Garifuna, and Scottish presence (settlers and enslavers) in the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr Osborne has recently launched a new book series for the University of Edinburgh Press, with Dr Michael Morris, Scotland and Empire. This talk will consider the simultaneous settlement of Scottish, Irish and Welsh colonists to the Caribbean islands and Canadian territories and provinces from the mid seventeenth century to the eighteenth century. This talk considers Celtic identity in the Atlantic colonies through incomplete stories of people whose lives were forever affected by their presence.
Would love to see some of you virtually at 12.30pmCST for Désha Osborne's talk! Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Cover image for the book Shakespeare in Tongues by Kathryn Vomero Santos
Hi, Bluesky! Allow me to (re)introduce myself by sharing the cover of my forthcoming book, Shakespeare in Tongues, which will be published by Routledge in the Spotlight on Shakespeare series next year. Many thanks to artist Fausto Fernandez for permission to use his gorgeous collage!
Dr Osborne specialises in Caribbean history, the Garifuna, and Scottish presence (settlers and enslavers) in the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr Osborne has recently launched a new book series for the University of Edinburgh Press, with Dr Michael Morris, Scotland and Empire. This talk will consider the simultaneous settlement of Scottish, Irish and Welsh colonists to the Caribbean islands and Canadian territories and provinces from the mid seventeenth century to the eighteenth century. This talk considers Celtic identity in the Atlantic colonies through incomplete stories of people whose lives were forever affected by their presence.
Would love to see some of you virtually at 12.30pmCST for Désha Osborne's talk! Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Egregious also to put this genocide apologist alongside a Posthumous lifetime award given to the mighty Charles Mills.
The co-options are clear and ongoing from the Zionist @caribphil.bsky.social See my and Jermain Ostiana's
recent piece on these dynamics
www.blackagendareport.com/decolonizing...
*Important* At the Senate on Tuesday, the President summarized the Province's plan to cut University funding across the province by 10%. This is nuclear, amounting to ~50M divided among the four universities. (While Irving pulp and paper is to get +45M for tariff relief.) But it is not yet a done deal. All university and union presidents are responding firmly. Please write to your MLA asap. There is not much time.
Dear Hon. Susan Holt, It has come to my attention that the budget for universities in the province may be cut by $50 million. I am writing to plead with you to reconsider. New Brunswick universities like the University of New Brunswick--recently ranked tops in Atlantic Canada and 14th in the country ahead of Western and Ottawa by TIME Magazine--serve a vital role educating the young people of this province. Our constituency is our own children. These proposed cuts would have a catastrophic impact on institutions that quite frankly require more public investment not less. This would be an incredibly short-sighted decision, with devastating long-term impacts. I hope New Brunswick can count on you to reconsider and put its young people first, ahead of corporate interests. Many thanks, Nathan Kalman-Lamb Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Brunswick
Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less.
The impact would be devastating.
Please share, NBers.
Join us at 12pm EST today! Link below
Come along on Friday and show solidarity with Palestine, with decolonial and global south scholars whose work comes from their lives, and with @insurgentthought.bsky.social whose work with @anadiazbetran is a model for us all 👇🏽❤️🔥
i want to unpack the conspicuousness of the project to "find a place" for AI in contrast to working for one another in this world where we actually exist. that's work that seems worth doing, and yet we're not *frantically* doing it. a world for BIPOCs, for trans people, for sex workers, for the sick
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
I received over 90% of the votes at the department and college levels, yet the provost denied me tenure. I met and exceeded the promotion and tenure guidelines and expectations as well as my annual and mid-tenure reviews.
The Provost at Texas Tech University had denied a talented and extremely productive faculty member tenure, despite 90% approval at the department and college levels, because of his outspoken critique of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Academic freedom in the US is a myth.
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
Come along on Friday and show solidarity with Palestine, with decolonial and global south scholars whose work comes from their lives, and with @insurgentthought.bsky.social whose work with @anadiazbetran is a model for us all 👇🏽❤️🔥
I remember sitting by the banks of the Chatahoochee River, talking with @cindyermus.bsky.social about this volume. We knew we had the themes to publish the volume from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for such a book. As it turned out, it’s better than either of us imagined!
Under the Sky of Fetishes, Caroline Déodat, 2023.This short film "reinvents the specters of a haunting gaze to tell the story of Mauritian sega—a cultural practice born during colonization and slavery, now mainly seen in tourism". We hope to be joined by Caroline. SUNKEN Works/Don't Bite, Galiah Conroy and CJ Roxas, 2025. "What effect does the history of the human zoo in Europe have on Black women today?" Registration link is also on the PDF and please share these fliers with your students and networks. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mBbpW8LxRka6T2OTi1fgAw#/registration
Our first Early Caribbean Society 2026 event is an online screening of these two incredible films that will ask us to think about the early Caribbean and its global connections. Register here:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Congratulations, @sandeepbak.bsky.social!🥳
U Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025) Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST). Join us we discuss the volume & commitments to decolonization and their importance in a Canadian context.
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We're entering a huge astrological shift moment this month, and if anyone would like a chart reading about this transition or a tarot reading, please hit me up.
Anyone heard about the riots in Italy outside the Olympic Village protesting ICE and Israel’s presence there? Anyone heard about it on mainstream Canadian news?
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U Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025) Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST). Join us we discuss the volume & commitments to decolonization and their importance in a Canadian context.
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Not the core issue but I do hope that the confirmation of depravity and its colonial, white supremacist affiliations in the files, will give academics, especially in Romanticism & 18thc studies, pause when they argue that sexual behaviour and 'adventurousness' is itself inherently radical. It's not.
None of this is new.
June Jordan perfectly understood white US depravity: "Something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley": "Suzannah and John Wheatley finished their breakfast . . .They planned to buy yet another human being . . .1/
poetryfoundation.org/articles/68628
the US military, for instance, is never going to sour on AI, because the idea of a system that makes up an endless list of legally permissive targets, & produces an endless stream of words to justify such engagements, will always, ALWAYS, be appealing to a warmongering, settler-colonial empire.
here is the US secretary of treasury admitting to crashing the value of Iran’s currency so that there would be protests that they could then manipulate (with Mossad agents on the ground in Iran) for regime change.
The sick pedophiles that run the US/west are the biggest terrorists in the world!
Not the core issue but I do hope that the confirmation of depravity and its colonial, white supremacist affiliations in the files, will give academics, especially in Romanticism & 18thc studies, pause when they argue that sexual behaviour and 'adventurousness' is itself inherently radical. It's not.