Farah Bakaari
@bakaari.bsky.social
i’ma loop the beat ‘cause i ain’t said enough
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Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
i love gaining clarity on an essay, i don’t enjoy when that clarity involves me deleting half the essay. i could have had a fun career if i made better choices.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
i love gaining clarity on an essay, i don’t enjoy when that clarity involves me deleting half the essay. i could have had a fun career if i made better choices.
a grading interlude: brownies for class tomorrow. i’ve finally christened my oven and baked in berkeley! but i still have 11 more papers to grade 🥹
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
a grading interlude: brownies for class tomorrow. i’ve finally christened my oven and baked in berkeley! but i still have 11 more papers to grade 🥹
at my eye exam i asked the doc about my eye twitches and he was like you’re tired and i go “well, there’s not much i can do about that, and he goes “well, if you don’t wanna rest, tonic water is a good muscle relaxant, now you can always add gin to the tonic to relax even more muscles.” 😎
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
at my eye exam i asked the doc about my eye twitches and he was like you’re tired and i go “well, there’s not much i can do about that, and he goes “well, if you don’t wanna rest, tonic water is a good muscle relaxant, now you can always add gin to the tonic to relax even more muscles.” 😎
so if the dems just caved and threw everyone under the bus what was 40 day shutdown for, the missed paychecks and all the rest?
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
so if the dems just caved and threw everyone under the bus what was 40 day shutdown for, the missed paychecks and all the rest?
me: why does my eye twitch often lately?
the internet:
1) stress
2) too much caffeine
3) not enough sleep
4) brain tumor.
we suggest you get an MRI immediately.
the internet:
1) stress
2) too much caffeine
3) not enough sleep
4) brain tumor.
we suggest you get an MRI immediately.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
me: why does my eye twitch often lately?
the internet:
1) stress
2) too much caffeine
3) not enough sleep
4) brain tumor.
we suggest you get an MRI immediately.
the internet:
1) stress
2) too much caffeine
3) not enough sleep
4) brain tumor.
we suggest you get an MRI immediately.
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Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
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a gift from @bakaari.bsky.social (some of the other ones she brought were her brilliance and her humor)
@mid-theory.bsky.social
@mid-theory.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
a gift from @bakaari.bsky.social (some of the other ones she brought were her brilliance and her humor)
@mid-theory.bsky.social
@mid-theory.bsky.social
what level of broken adult sunday is procrastinating on your rescheduled long run by answering a dozen emails?
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
what level of broken adult sunday is procrastinating on your rescheduled long run by answering a dozen emails?
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The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UPenn English)
with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien
theamericanvandal.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.
these are certainly “interesting times” because delta airlines now has free wifi and i’m squandering it by hate-reading this oxymoronic garbage. if that’s not a sign of female pathology, i don’t know what is. feminism can’t save me from the new york crimes
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
these are certainly “interesting times” because delta airlines now has free wifi and i’m squandering it by hate-reading this oxymoronic garbage. if that’s not a sign of female pathology, i don’t know what is. feminism can’t save me from the new york crimes
millions of people are working without pay because sociopathic morons rule us. overheard one TSA agent tell another about a rude customer who suggested “she get fired,” and the agent was like “i do feel fired, i’m not getting a paycheck.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
millions of people are working without pay because sociopathic morons rule us. overheard one TSA agent tell another about a rude customer who suggested “she get fired,” and the agent was like “i do feel fired, i’m not getting a paycheck.”
on my way to atlanta for the close reading for twenty first century symposium. last time i was in ATL was 10 years ago, the miserable summer before college. when i finally extricated myself to go to college, i met @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social who just finished grad school. time is a very strange beast.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
on my way to atlanta for the close reading for twenty first century symposium. last time i was in ATL was 10 years ago, the miserable summer before college. when i finally extricated myself to go to college, i met @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social who just finished grad school. time is a very strange beast.
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Seems like a good day for big ideas.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
theamericanvandal.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Seems like a good day for big ideas.
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We are seeking a new editor-in-chief for ASAP/Journal—could it be you?? (Deadline will be extended!)
We’re also seeking innovative reviews of scholarly & artistic works (all genres) for ASAP/Review. Check out our calls for Provocations & Uncanny Juxtapositions!
asapjournal.com/call-for-pap...
We’re also seeking innovative reviews of scholarly & artistic works (all genres) for ASAP/Review. Check out our calls for Provocations & Uncanny Juxtapositions!
asapjournal.com/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers - ASAP/Review
asapjournal.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We are seeking a new editor-in-chief for ASAP/Journal—could it be you?? (Deadline will be extended!)
We’re also seeking innovative reviews of scholarly & artistic works (all genres) for ASAP/Review. Check out our calls for Provocations & Uncanny Juxtapositions!
asapjournal.com/call-for-pap...
We’re also seeking innovative reviews of scholarly & artistic works (all genres) for ASAP/Review. Check out our calls for Provocations & Uncanny Juxtapositions!
asapjournal.com/call-for-pap...
it’s okay to cry at mamdani winning ✨✨
“more parks, more beauty, more light”
“more parks, more beauty, more light”
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
it’s okay to cry at mamdani winning ✨✨
“more parks, more beauty, more light”
“more parks, more beauty, more light”
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A piece about having Big Feelings about Mamdani. @mid-theory.bsky.social was a dream to work with 💖
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A piece about having Big Feelings about Mamdani. @mid-theory.bsky.social was a dream to work with 💖
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
Now glueing myself to election coverage. 🍺📺
this is a STUNNING piece of writing! please read while we await our victory! 🤩
#zohranmamdani
#zohranmamdani
On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford.
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...
Mamdani Feelings
Starting from a place of extreme negativity, political speech can brush the bright membrane that forms literature’s impossible horizon. The rent is too high in Los Angeles. Consider a number: “One …
mid-theory.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
this is a STUNNING piece of writing! please read while we await our victory! 🤩
#zohranmamdani
#zohranmamdani
when i text my ET/CT friends before 8am their time…🙈
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
when i text my ET/CT friends before 8am their time…🙈
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while it’s devastating to see my alma mater abdicate the basic premise of what a university should be, every day in a new way, i’m at least glad that they’ve said the quiet part aloud…the ultimate payoff of these schemes is the glory of sounding like any other mediocre white bloke.
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
while it’s devastating to see my alma mater abdicate the basic premise of what a university should be, every day in a new way, i’m at least glad that they’ve said the quiet part aloud…the ultimate payoff of these schemes is the glory of sounding like any other mediocre white bloke.
while it’s devastating to see my alma mater abdicate the basic premise of what a university should be, every day in a new way, i’m at least glad that they’ve said the quiet part aloud…the ultimate payoff of these schemes is the glory of sounding like any other mediocre white bloke.
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
while it’s devastating to see my alma mater abdicate the basic premise of what a university should be, every day in a new way, i’m at least glad that they’ve said the quiet part aloud…the ultimate payoff of these schemes is the glory of sounding like any other mediocre white bloke.
i actually find it rude that many campuses have a clock towers that chime at the hour. it’s like i get it, okay, time’s arrow, the passage of time, the march towards mortality and obsolescence… you don’t need to be on my case about it.
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
i actually find it rude that many campuses have a clock towers that chime at the hour. it’s like i get it, okay, time’s arrow, the passage of time, the march towards mortality and obsolescence… you don’t need to be on my case about it.
i am not enjoying the darkness.
November 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
i am not enjoying the darkness.
i’m about to commit a writerly sin in this overdue essay to @johannawinant.bsky.social & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & i can already anticipate dan’s response because he gave me that exact same feedback ten years ago when i was a freshman in college & turned in mediocre late essay on james baldwin.
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i’m about to commit a writerly sin in this overdue essay to @johannawinant.bsky.social & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & i can already anticipate dan’s response because he gave me that exact same feedback ten years ago when i was a freshman in college & turned in mediocre late essay on james baldwin.
didn’t realize i could feel things, these things anymore, things like hope, courage, charm. all goes to show that when life hands you stale desperate islamophobia you dust off your arabic and eat some knafeh with the aunties at the corner store.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
didn’t realize i could feel things, these things anymore, things like hope, courage, charm. all goes to show that when life hands you stale desperate islamophobia you dust off your arabic and eat some knafeh with the aunties at the corner store.