“I don’t think I’ve ever seen as big of a disconnect between the scale of a crisis& scale of media coverage in my life-both because the scale of the suffering in #Sudan is so high& because coverage is abominably low”
@tomperriello.bsky.social former US special envoy
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This is a moment when we readers must step up to the plate and demand better than this. Translation 100% done by humans, 100% of the time.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
so creative writing?
This sounds amazing. May I ask what the subject/field of the class was?
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Transitions Magazine is coming out with an issue entirely dedicated to Sudan soon with essays, memoir, and short fiction by Rogaia Abusharaf, Jamal Mahjoub, Fatin Abbas, Ahmed Abdel Al, Wagas Elsadig, Suzi Mirghani, and David Mikhail.
Bc humans are uniformly great at reading about a complex idea and instantly understanding it. It's not like we teach by talking with students about the reading and what they think about it in a range of engaging ways to help them to not only get it but contextualize, critique, and apply it. Nope.
For the women of Tigray, milling ancient spices is a way to reconnect with their heritage in the aftermath of war, reports Paddy Dowling, with photography, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
Incredible news today that Sisi pardoned Alaa Abdel Fattah, Egypt's most prominent political prisoner who has been imprisoned more or less continuously since 2014. He should be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
A magazine cover featuring abstract art and the title “the war about everything in Sudan”.
Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.
NEW: A growing number of Nigerians are returning home after years abroad, but they are often met with skepticism, culture shock and hard realities. In this essay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, Kingsley Charles explores the “japada” trend.
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I taught my first version of this class a few years ago as I looked back on creating my first collection and the choices I made. This edition is me thinking into other formal possibilities as I contemplate putting together the next collection.
wish I could offer some real help Kerry; but sending love!
I'm proposing something similar, "how to become a reader," and I would be really curious to see how you're structuring it. If you'd be willing to compare syllabi at some point, please DM me!
Patel argues for a “queer jurisprudence” informed by the flexibility of “living customary law”—as opposed to either the postcolonial legal system or “official customary law.” In this framework, the practice of tradition becomes a space for people like Tiwonge to forge different futures.
he much-publicized 2009 prosecution of Tiwonge Chimbalanga Kachepa and Steven Monjeza Soko following their traditional marriage ceremony, or chinkhoswe, which was interpreted as a “gay marriage” even though Tiwonge identifies as a woman and was accepted as such in her community.
The winner of this year’s prize for best published essay by a graduate student was Nigel Timothy Mpemba Patel, for “A Queer Chinkhoswe: Re-Imagining the Customary in Malawi” in Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South, eds. G.B. Radics and P. Ciocchini. Patel takes up...
...through which women worked together to gain independence, respect, and livelihoods in the worlds of fashion, music, and broadcasting. The essay is an exemplary model of how to combine women’s history and feminist analysis with an attention to the presence of transgender women.
Charlotte Grabli won Honorable Mention for “Elegant Incursions: Fashion, Music, and Gender Dissidence in 1950s Brazzaville and Kinshasa” in the Journal of Women’s History. The essay, itself an elegant incursion, offers a fascinating account of urban women’s associations in the Congo in the 1950s.
make queer bodies convincing characters in the most dystopian dramas about the future.” He uses work on witchcraft and modernity in Africa to explore how “sexual deviance in the body of the gay man” becomes a figure for conflicts over sovereignty and corruption in postcolonial neoliberalism.
her emphasis is on queer joy and ingenuity. Raidoo acutely analyzes the contemporary emergence of discourses of homophobia in Sierra Leone, where the state has remained relatively silent on the issue, through an anthropological lens--or as he compellingly phrases it, "the cultural forces that...
“queer world-making parties” and private online counterpublics, through a small but rich archive of interviews. She highlights the forms of interpersonal surveillance “LBQ women” deal with, as opposed to the threats from law enforcement faced by gay men and transgender women; however...
The two co-winners for best essay by a junior scholar are Efemia Chela and Renugan Raidoo. Chela published “Dancing with Decolonial Praxis: LBQ Women and Non-Binary People’s Subcultures in Lusaka, Zambia” in Gender & Development. She offers an engagingly written account of clandestine...
After hurricanes in Miami when everything is down and you need to know things like where to get ice, local radio really steps up, and its weirdly calming to stop searching for the best info and just keep the radio on. Hope you are doing ok in LA.
You might like this thread @timwatson.bsky.social
