Morgan L Ventura (Dr HMVL)
@morganvl.bsky.social
Writer, archaeologist | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Curating a repatriation @UniExeter | MA QUB, PhD UChicago | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
Arts Council of NI SIAP 2025
Pinned
🏺 An extremely important article from @morganvl.bsky.social about archaeology’s complicity in the current genocide of Palestinians and why archaeologists - and the organisations that claim to represent them - must speak up and refuse to stay neutral. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Why archaeologists must speak up for Gaza
Archaeology is often a mechanism of power. As such, its scholars have an obligation to speak up against oppression.
www.aljazeera.com
I haven’t posted in a while, but now back after deleting my X in Sept. I’m a writer, poet, & anthropologist of heritage. My piece in @aljazeera.com on the destruction of Palestinian heritage & archeology as a mechanism of power says all you need to know about my views
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In cool news I’m going to be putting my broadcasting degree to good use, and I’ll be doing the audiobook for my novella! Yay!
February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
In cool news I’m going to be putting my broadcasting degree to good use, and I’ll be doing the audiobook for my novella! Yay!
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I thought I’d share the list of events I have coming up for my book, with details to be added for the Dublin launch on Tuesday 3 March. I promise that’ll be it after this. They’ll mostly be conversations, and I’d be glad to meet old friends and new. Thank you for sharing, and please do join us.
February 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I thought I’d share the list of events I have coming up for my book, with details to be added for the Dublin launch on Tuesday 3 March. I promise that’ll be it after this. They’ll mostly be conversations, and I’d be glad to meet old friends and new. Thank you for sharing, and please do join us.
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Late Heaney: Nicholas Allen in conversation with Mark Carruthers, in partnership with Irish Studies at Queen's.
Monday, March 2, 2026
The Seamus Heaney Centre
17:30 - 19:00. Registration opens soon. Let me know if you get stuck.
bit.ly/4acV3Nm
Monday, March 2, 2026
The Seamus Heaney Centre
17:30 - 19:00. Registration opens soon. Let me know if you get stuck.
bit.ly/4acV3Nm
February 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Late Heaney: Nicholas Allen in conversation with Mark Carruthers, in partnership with Irish Studies at Queen's.
Monday, March 2, 2026
The Seamus Heaney Centre
17:30 - 19:00. Registration opens soon. Let me know if you get stuck.
bit.ly/4acV3Nm
Monday, March 2, 2026
The Seamus Heaney Centre
17:30 - 19:00. Registration opens soon. Let me know if you get stuck.
bit.ly/4acV3Nm
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It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels.
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
know
www.somayer.net
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
It's taken me five weeks to write this essay on knowing and, more importantly, not knowing; on epistemology & the Epstein episteme, or the 'knowledge' economy (Biblical sense). It took a panicking, trapped fox to unlock it, and it includes a hottt pic of young Engels.
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
www.somayer.net?na=view&id=6
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Queen's University Belfast cuts ties with George Mitchell, after Friday's Epstein files release
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
George Mitchell's name removed from scholarship over Epstein links
George Mitchell chaired the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Queen's University Belfast cuts ties with George Mitchell, after Friday's Epstein files release
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is a beautiful personal essay and it is a worthwhile read. It gave me a lot of hope about my chronic illness and the struggle to make time to write.
At Interstellar Flight Mag, a personal essay on writing, speculative poetry, and disability from Mari Ness magazine.interstella...
February 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
This is a beautiful personal essay and it is a worthwhile read. It gave me a lot of hope about my chronic illness and the struggle to make time to write.
Please help if you can!
On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had.
I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark
On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.
gofund.me
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Please help if you can!
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On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had.
I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark
On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.
gofund.me
February 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM
On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had.
I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
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The world is on fire and everyone is going through it right now but if you wanna help a Black Author this month, please donate to RSA Garcia's Go Fund Me. It's tough writing a book series while also undergoing cancer treatments. #booksky #blacksky
gofund.me/3c25c5376
gofund.me/3c25c5376
Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone,
I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
gofund.me
February 2, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The world is on fire and everyone is going through it right now but if you wanna help a Black Author this month, please donate to RSA Garcia's Go Fund Me. It's tough writing a book series while also undergoing cancer treatments. #booksky #blacksky
gofund.me/3c25c5376
gofund.me/3c25c5376
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Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
February 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
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Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)
February 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)
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It was a pleasure to read my poem at the 35th anniversary of Geist magazine last night. Such a beautiful issue and very moving words from founder, Steve Osborne. Many thanks to Emma & Dayna for having me & welcoming me so warmly
January 31, 2026 at 7:32 PM
It was a pleasure to read my poem at the 35th anniversary of Geist magazine last night. Such a beautiful issue and very moving words from founder, Steve Osborne. Many thanks to Emma & Dayna for having me & welcoming me so warmly
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I had been doing ok this year, but thanks to a book event, a couple of pre-orders coming in, and then a trip to York to see friends, I have comprehensively fallen off the wagon
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I had been doing ok this year, but thanks to a book event, a couple of pre-orders coming in, and then a trip to York to see friends, I have comprehensively fallen off the wagon
I was today years old when I realised this 🫂 emoji was two people hugging and *not* a weird, old-fashioned movie camera
February 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I was today years old when I realised this 🫂 emoji was two people hugging and *not* a weird, old-fashioned movie camera
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@su-anna.bsky.social's debut MORSELS is available for purchase:
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the DFAT.
www.machapress.com/subscription...
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the DFAT.
www.machapress.com/subscription...
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 12:47 PM
@su-anna.bsky.social's debut MORSELS is available for purchase:
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the DFAT.
www.machapress.com/subscription...
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the DFAT.
www.machapress.com/subscription...
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
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Oh wow. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (Collection), "Uncertain Sons" (Novelette), and "In My Country" (Short Story), recommended by Locus. A lot of great works and authors here. Like half the collection category, colleagues/friends I recognize. My thanks to folks who enjoyed these stories.
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Oh wow. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (Collection), "Uncertain Sons" (Novelette), and "In My Country" (Short Story), recommended by Locus. A lot of great works and authors here. Like half the collection category, colleagues/friends I recognize. My thanks to folks who enjoyed these stories.
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My poem “Sijo for Billionaires,” from my collection Time Travel Is Easy (2025). Apropos of nothing.
February 1, 2026 at 12:52 AM
My poem “Sijo for Billionaires,” from my collection Time Travel Is Easy (2025). Apropos of nothing.
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My second book, Wrong Horse, is now two years old and still a free download from Moria Books. 🐎 www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
moria
an experimental poetry e-zine
www.moriapoetry.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:23 AM
My second book, Wrong Horse, is now two years old and still a free download from Moria Books. 🐎 www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
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Jorge’s film is great. I wrote about these issues (& the friction between the Zapotec community & Mexico’s heritage industrial complex) in a recent article in Current Anthropology — www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Looting Made Legal : Settler-Colonial Logics of Erasure and the Making of Phantasmal Patrimony | Current Anthropology: Vol 66, No 2
In this article, I explore a heritage scandal known as the “sacking of the Frissell,” which occurred in the Indigenous Zapotec town of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico. One evening in 2006, it is said, the Fri...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 31, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Jorge’s film is great. I wrote about these issues (& the friction between the Zapotec community & Mexico’s heritage industrial complex) in a recent article in Current Anthropology — www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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My first full-length collection of poetry, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, came out a couple months ago. Poems on dinosaurs! Deep Time! Queer identity and embodiment! Life in the late Anthropocene! It’s pay-what-you-want for digital on Itchio, and coming soon to other sites. dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
January 29, 2026 at 10:42 PM
My first full-length collection of poetry, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, came out a couple months ago. Poems on dinosaurs! Deep Time! Queer identity and embodiment! Life in the late Anthropocene! It’s pay-what-you-want for digital on Itchio, and coming soon to other sites. dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
It was a pleasure to read my poem at the 35th anniversary of Geist magazine last night. Such a beautiful issue and very moving words from founder, Steve Osborne. Many thanks to Emma & Dayna for having me & welcoming me so warmly
January 31, 2026 at 7:32 PM
It was a pleasure to read my poem at the 35th anniversary of Geist magazine last night. Such a beautiful issue and very moving words from founder, Steve Osborne. Many thanks to Emma & Dayna for having me & welcoming me so warmly
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Our new issue is online and free to read. Go see! If you like it and have a spare quid or two, we'd be grateful for a donation! You can here: www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... Ta!
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Our new issue is online and free to read. Go see! If you like it and have a spare quid or two, we'd be grateful for a donation! You can here: www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... Ta!
ICYMI. Tonight, I’m subjecting a crowd to my X-Files poetry & pretending it’s the 90s
I’m excited to read my poem, “I Want to Believe,” at tomorrow’s launch celebrating 35 years of Geist Magazine. It is a poem about the X-Files, Bigfoot, & the grief of losing someone (my father) who is still here. If you’re in Van, pls come!
This Friday, Geist is joined by our friends at subTerrain and EVENT to celebrate our 35th anniversary.
Three Geist authors will read from their work, published in 131, our 35th Anniversary Issue.
🔶 Morgan L. Ventura
🔶 Erika Thorkelson
🔶 Adèle Barclay
See you Friday, January 30 at The Pleasant!
Three Geist authors will read from their work, published in 131, our 35th Anniversary Issue.
🔶 Morgan L. Ventura
🔶 Erika Thorkelson
🔶 Adèle Barclay
See you Friday, January 30 at The Pleasant!
January 31, 2026 at 1:10 AM
ICYMI. Tonight, I’m subjecting a crowd to my X-Files poetry & pretending it’s the 90s
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Anniversary of a trauma that echoes down the years.
What happens when you put government guns on the street, from Iran, to USA, to any number of massacres & atrocities against civilians down the years.
As the world moves on, the families of Bloody Sunday innocent victims have to endure, resist
What happens when you put government guns on the street, from Iran, to USA, to any number of massacres & atrocities against civilians down the years.
As the world moves on, the families of Bloody Sunday innocent victims have to endure, resist
Today in Irish History, Bloody Sunday in Derry, 30 January 1972
The fatal shooting of 13 unarmed demonstrators by the British Army in Derry in 1972. www.theirishstory.com/2012/01/29/t...
The fatal shooting of 13 unarmed demonstrators by the British Army in Derry in 1972. www.theirishstory.com/2012/01/29/t...
January 30, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Anniversary of a trauma that echoes down the years.
What happens when you put government guns on the street, from Iran, to USA, to any number of massacres & atrocities against civilians down the years.
As the world moves on, the families of Bloody Sunday innocent victims have to endure, resist
What happens when you put government guns on the street, from Iran, to USA, to any number of massacres & atrocities against civilians down the years.
As the world moves on, the families of Bloody Sunday innocent victims have to endure, resist
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I’m excited to read my poem, “I Want to Believe,” at tomorrow’s launch celebrating 35 years of Geist Magazine. It is a poem about the X-Files, Bigfoot, & the grief of losing someone (my father) who is still here. If you’re in Van, pls come!
This Friday, Geist is joined by our friends at subTerrain and EVENT to celebrate our 35th anniversary.
Three Geist authors will read from their work, published in 131, our 35th Anniversary Issue.
🔶 Morgan L. Ventura
🔶 Erika Thorkelson
🔶 Adèle Barclay
See you Friday, January 30 at The Pleasant!
Three Geist authors will read from their work, published in 131, our 35th Anniversary Issue.
🔶 Morgan L. Ventura
🔶 Erika Thorkelson
🔶 Adèle Barclay
See you Friday, January 30 at The Pleasant!
January 29, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I’m excited to read my poem, “I Want to Believe,” at tomorrow’s launch celebrating 35 years of Geist Magazine. It is a poem about the X-Files, Bigfoot, & the grief of losing someone (my father) who is still here. If you’re in Van, pls come!