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AND running unpermitted, polluting gas turbines AND sited in the predominantly Black Memphis community of Boxtown, which already faces some of the highest rates of asthma in the nation time.com/7308925/elon...
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍

Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!

contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line... - me on the NYT contributor strike/boycott for New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...
No Opinion for Gaza: Why we are boycotting the New York Times
Sophie Lewis explains why she & 200+ former New York Times contributors are boycotting the outlet until it addresses its anti-Palestinian bias.
www.newarab.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
some good news
Overseas bases come with social, economic & environmental costs for host countries so kudos to the people of Ecuador, who rejected a proposal to start hosting the US military again after it was kicked out in 2008. Maybe makes it a little harder for the US to launch a monstrous war on Venezuela too.
Voters in Ecuador reject return of foreign military bases
Count of more than 90 percent of ballots show two-thirds rejecting the proposal to host foreign military bases.
www.aljazeera.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Las emociones no se pueden traducir con algoritmos, reivindicamos la traducción humana como custodia de la lengua, de la cultura y del arte entendidos como elementos indisociables del espíritu crítico, de la imaginación y de la experiencia”. es.rollingstone.com/los-traducto...
Los traductores alzan su voz contra la IA: “Las emociones no se pueden traducir con algoritmos”
La Asociación de Traducción y Adaptación Audiovisual de España (ATRAE) se levanta en contra del creciente uso de la inteligencia artificial y la automatización de las traducciones.
es.rollingstone.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.”

The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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“When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining.”
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
thisislaborwise.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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And Jesus said, thou shall not feed the poor and the hungry from your bounty because you must build ballrooms with lots of gold to honor the Lord while remaining liquid in case Argentina needs another bailout. - Book of Trump, 11:06. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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From the union statement in the story below:
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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"It's basically Groundhog Day," Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada says of Israel's latest attacks across Gaza that killed over 100 people. He says Israel has a long history of signing ceasefire agreements only to immediately and repeatedly violate them.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Resharing this and thinking about all that is at stake in the elections in Argentina today
Five Points on the Political Economy of Violence - Pluto Press
Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero respond to the wave of femicides taking place in Argentina
www.plutobooks.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As Trump attempts to interfere in the upcoming Argentine elections, the feminist movement continues to resist the far right, drawing connections between austerity, debt, and gendered violence. Please read this new piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social & Luci Cavallero.
Five Points on the Political Economy of Violence - Pluto Press
Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero respond to the wave of femicides taking place in Argentina
www.plutobooks.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Incredible stuff from the Purdue student paper in solidarity with IU. We love to see it.
October 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here!

Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: charcopress.com/bookstore/di...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzX...
DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson
YouTube video by MUBI
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Antifa animals are the new cat videos for when you are sad. I´m honestly impressed by the shark on the hoverboard
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.
October 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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20 billion dollar US Treasury + Fed bailout for Argentina's Javier Milei. Cui Bono? "Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent."
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Today a coworker, 100% seriously and with a lot of anger, told me that "too much DEI and safe spaces" is why our school's football team got crushed over the weekend. Lord help me.
September 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM