John Gast's "American Progress"--now on the official account of the Department of Homeland Security. Constitutionalism is more than text, especially in domains like expansion, dispossession, and borders (where there isn't much text)--it is also ideas about "nature," values, principles, and ideology.

Black Comics Studies Now

Participants in a Comic Studies Society roundtable discuss the past, present and future of black comics.
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@projectmuse.bsky.social #ComicStudiesSociety #ComicsStudies #comics #BlackComicStudies #RepresentationMatters #ComicBooks #storytelling

Heavy hearted at this—huge thank you to the amazing folks at the NEH for all they’ve done, and we can only hope it comes back stronger one day.

With anti-ICE protests happening across LA and nationwide, protecting yourself from surveillance has never been more critical.

Here are steps you can take to protect yourself and others before, during, and after protests. Access the full toolkit here: www.stopspying.org/protest

Virtual #ACLA2025 folks, I’ll be presenting tomorrow in Stream B! Come hear me talk about ghosts in Native Hawaiian literature (with a teeny reading of the White Lotus season 1 ending for some really spooky shit). I haven’t done ACLA in a while and I forgot how fun the multi-panel setup is!

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.

On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.

Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

Very excited to announce the publication of this special issue at Orbit, on Indigenous Speculative Fiction!

Guest edited by Jim Donahue and internally shepherded by Sascha Pohlmann.

orbit.openlibhums.org/issue/1426/i...

Not @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social getting an Eisner nomination for best periodical! It’s so awesome to see them get recognized on that kind of stage!

Taking the summer break as an opportunity to get back into academic social media (eep!) Definitely looks like things are more lively here than back on Tweeter, so howdy everyone! I’m working on my book (newly under contract), so I’ll be thinking and reading a lot about road trip narratives, racial

Started up over here mostly in anticipation of Twitter’s inevitable downfall…