Astrid Lorange
@alorange.bsky.social
Academic, writer, and editor at Rosa Press. Poetry and poetics; gender, sexuality, and the family form; prisons and policing; contemporary art and media.
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
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Footage like this really illustrates the full meaning of the chant: "We are all Palestinians." Authoritarian violence in Gaza and the West Bank begets authoritarian violence in Sydney. Tomorrow, it just might be you with the knee in your back and the fist in your face.
Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
February 9, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Footage like this really illustrates the full meaning of the chant: "We are all Palestinians." Authoritarian violence in Gaza and the West Bank begets authoritarian violence in Sydney. Tomorrow, it just might be you with the knee in your back and the fist in your face.
Minns is banking on to-the-bone Islamophobia in this shithole country to excuse the video of cops rushing, dragging, tackling a group of men on their knees in prayer. Fully entrenched racism sees such men as innately threatening, their prayer a provocation.
February 9, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Minns is banking on to-the-bone Islamophobia in this shithole country to excuse the video of cops rushing, dragging, tackling a group of men on their knees in prayer. Fully entrenched racism sees such men as innately threatening, their prayer a provocation.
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‘Violent clashes,” say the ABC headlines. No. The police attacked peaceful protesters. Our media should be outraged by the abuse of citizens by a jacked up police force but alas they love this shit. They think it will never be them.
February 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
‘Violent clashes,” say the ABC headlines. No. The police attacked peaceful protesters. Our media should be outraged by the abuse of citizens by a jacked up police force but alas they love this shit. They think it will never be them.
@sydmorningherald.bsky.social blaming protestors, exonerating police violence, euphemising and neutralising what was plainly state force in the face of a large protest against enthofasicsm. typical trash media we fucking see you.
A protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit is under way at Sydney’s Town Hall. Police have capsicum-sprayed dozens of protesters and members of the media as clashes turn increasingly violent. Live updates: shorturl.at/Wq8BD
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
@sydmorningherald.bsky.social blaming protestors, exonerating police violence, euphemising and neutralising what was plainly state force in the face of a large protest against enthofasicsm. typical trash media we fucking see you.
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All of the footage is NSW cops assaulting peaceful protesters. They are a disgrace.
Chris Minns gave them licence to be as violent as they want.
Chris Minns gave them licence to be as violent as they want.
Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
All of the footage is NSW cops assaulting peaceful protesters. They are a disgrace.
Chris Minns gave them licence to be as violent as they want.
Chris Minns gave them licence to be as violent as they want.
abolish the police
Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 AM
abolish the police
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Guardian Australia reporter Jordyn Beazley filmed this video not long ago of police moving towards protesters down Elizabeth Street in the Sydney CBD following the rally at Town Hall.
February 9, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Guardian Australia reporter Jordyn Beazley filmed this video not long ago of police moving towards protesters down Elizabeth Street in the Sydney CBD following the rally at Town Hall.
This cop tripped on their own fucking bike and their mates started beating up a person with their hands up. @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social get these violent and bloody thirsty cops off our streets and away from people righteously protesting mass death. Utterly disgusting.
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
This cop tripped on their own fucking bike and their mates started beating up a person with their hands up. @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social get these violent and bloody thirsty cops off our streets and away from people righteously protesting mass death. Utterly disgusting.
Sickening images of police violence tonight in Sydney. Kettling, spraying, punching, and dragging people in prayer. Unsurprising but deeply upsetting. All to protect and defend (checks notes) genocide and its architects. Shame on NSW and shame on the Albanese government. Gormless stooges. Hell world
February 9, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Sickening images of police violence tonight in Sydney. Kettling, spraying, punching, and dragging people in prayer. Unsurprising but deeply upsetting. All to protect and defend (checks notes) genocide and its architects. Shame on NSW and shame on the Albanese government. Gormless stooges. Hell world
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wuthering heights is what happens when you can only marry people who live in walking distance
February 4, 2026 at 10:32 PM
wuthering heights is what happens when you can only marry people who live in walking distance
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work - Zone Books
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February 5, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
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February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I'm in the new look @publicbooks.bsky.social talking with @anniemcc.bsky.social, Vineeta Singh, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel about higher education, how we have studied and organized around it, and what possibility lies therein.
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I am fucking DYING inside: "AI Slop serves a social function: it offers a supply-side solution to a variety of problems in cultural and economic demand—that, collectively, people want more content than humans can supply."
February 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I am fucking DYING inside: "AI Slop serves a social function: it offers a supply-side solution to a variety of problems in cultural and economic demand—that, collectively, people want more content than humans can supply."
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cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”
In our latest, we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way
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The Anti-State State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore (01/26/26) | The Death Panel
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January 26, 2026 at 10:34 PM
RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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Solidarity to all in Minnesota and beyond for their fierce beautiful heart-breaking resistance.
“There is a role for everyone, because that time must be now”
“There is a role for everyone, because that time must be now”
Alex Pretti’s shooting — the third in Minneapolis by feds since Trump’s deportation machine descended on Minnesota with extreme brutality — is an unbearable follow-up to the most extraordinary day of mass resistance to Trumpian fascism to date… @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How
A day before Alex Pretti’s brutal killing by federal agents in the Minneapolis steets, Minnesota showed us a way forward: the general strike.
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January 25, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Solidarity to all in Minnesota and beyond for their fierce beautiful heart-breaking resistance.
“There is a role for everyone, because that time must be now”
“There is a role for everyone, because that time must be now”
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I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
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The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.
It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.
Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.
It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.
Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.
January 24, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do.
It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.
Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.
It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do.
Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.
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Solidarity with the striking workers in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE!
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Solidarity with the striking workers in Minneapolis. Abolish ICE!
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We recently published two pieces about Trump’s Second Coming. Nikhil Pal Singh charted the contours of an emerging US “homeland empire”; and Aziz Rana looked back, in a personal register, on a year of resistance and complicity:
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
www.equator.org/articles/day...
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
www.equator.org/articles/day...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
We recently published two pieces about Trump’s Second Coming. Nikhil Pal Singh charted the contours of an emerging US “homeland empire”; and Aziz Rana looked back, in a personal register, on a year of resistance and complicity:
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
www.equator.org/articles/day...
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
www.equator.org/articles/day...