We had a great reading this week, featuring @spires.bsky.social, @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social, and Edmundo Paz-Soldán! Look forward to reader spotlights in the coming days. The IILF marches on!

Such a great time reading!
Great atmosphere, lovely fiction and fun people.

Thank you @irrealist.bsky.social for organizing, as well as fellow writers @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social and Edmundo Paz-Soldán!

Thank you Liquid State Brewery for hosting.

Looking forward to more readers at the brewery!

“La explicación de un enigma es la repetición del enigma”.
Clarice Lispector, La pasión según G. H.

“Vista de cerca, la cucaracha es un objeto de gran lujo. Una novia adornada con joyas negras”.
(Clarice Lispector, La pasión según G.H.)

me encanta!

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Volume 33, Issue 4 of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

Now with free-access articles included: new JLACS issue, including discussions of race & space in #Bolivia, and on photographs of the extractive frontier in Andean ore mining and along the Transamazônica. Check out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/c...

I hung up my DOGE termination letter near where I’m writing my book, as a reminder that the Humanities matters to a free and open society.

Far worse than the end of my NEH grant is the wholesale gutting of the NEH itself, an incalculable loss that we must fight to prevent.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.

Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.

NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, which could lead to cuts in services and layoffs.

Look who's defunding the police now. 51st.news/house-republ...

Students hold signs at protest reading "Fuck Fascism" and "Jews Hate ICE"

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"

now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make

www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID will lead to millions of preventable deaths.

The decision of the richest person in the world to destroy an agency that delivers life-saving aid to the poorest people on the planet is unconscionable.

This is Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉 #Oscars

Muy feliz por Brasil. Qué increíble película es Ainda Estou Aqui.

La moda entre los oligarcas nazis es tener hijos con tres mujeres a la vez, no participar de la crianza de ninguno y ponerles nombres como Nabucodonosor Copernicus o Casiopea Hyperionia @#$&-iii.

Librazo!

es cama y a la vez rascador 🐈‍⬛

❄️❄️❄️❄️

Vol 34: Regiones inquietantes: literatura de horror en Latinoamérica Vol 34

Ya está en línea el volumen Regiones inquietantes: literatura de horror en Latinoamérica, que coeditamos con Debra Castillo en Hispanic Issues On Line.
Muchas gracias a todxs lxs colaboradorxs por sus maravillosos ensayos! Y que esto ayude a seguir pensando el horror.

cla.umn.edu/hispanic-iss...

This is Oligarchy. The three richest men in the world have become $196 BILLION richer since Donald Trump was elected.

$196 billion for three men in 99 days.

Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Llegó el esperado libro de Nicolás Campisi! ✨

Es muy rara la forma en la que el vínculo con lo que vos mismo has escrito se rompe con el tiempo. Y ese mundo que estuvo en vos te expulsa, te niega sus claves, te recibe como a un extraño. Recibiste esas palabras, pero ya no podés entrar en ellas.

“la sensatez tan solamente sirve para explicarse lo que es ella misma,
pues con el tono sensato, en realidad te has abismado en tu propia sensatez cuando crees haber logrado aclarar lo que querías;
oscuro, muy oscuro deberá de ser el tono, si se quiere hacer desencadenar lo que el amor oculta” Saenz

Grievable deaths.

Si hay algo por lo cual los que vivimos en EE.UU. deberíamos estar en las calles es por el sistema de salud corporativo, fraudulento, usurero y corrupto de este país. Un sistema de salud que conduce a los más vulnerables a la muerte y a la desesperación en aras de maximizar las ganancias.

El reporte de Forensic Arquitecture sobre Gaza es devastador:

-83% de toda vida vegetal ha sido destruida
-Aprox. 70% de tierras agrícolas, campos y huertos, destruidos
-+3.700 de invernaderos, 45% de su total, destruidos
-+47% de pozos de agua y 65% de depósitos, destruidos

Sí, es genecidio.

Me alegra que te haya gustado!

Dos lindas lecturas de martes, un poemario muy preciso e inteligente de Andrea Alzati, traído de Argentina por Moira Fradinger, y un libro bellísimo de la gran Blanca Wiethüchter sobre Jaime Sáenz en Dum Dum, gracias al incansable trabajo de Liliana Colanzi. Gracias queridas amigas!