Chris Taylor
chrisjudetaylor.bsky.social
Chris Taylor
@chrisjudetaylor.bsky.social
Do anarchy. Prof at UChicago. They/them. Book here https://www.dukeupress.edu/empire-of-neglect
We’re about two months away from post-1857 Rebellion levels of anti-Indian racism here and it’s going to be very bad and look very weird
December 27, 2024 at 5:26 PM
My general unarticulated sense is the first Trump go-round would’ve been way more intellectually productive and less annoying if liberals waded into late early modern “end of the republic” lit and stayed away from post-WW2 neofascism lit
something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
South Korean soldiers attempting to enter the National Assembly repelled by a fire extinguisher and camera flashes.
December 3, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...
The Stuart Hall Essay Prize - Stuart Hall Foundation
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpubl...
www.stuarthallfoundation.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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For those who missed it, here is my recent article for Yes Magazine about the returning need for community self-defense on the left. With rising state repression and far-right violence, communities need to find a way to keep themselves safe.
www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...
A Return to Leftist Self-Defense
Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.
www.yesmagazine.org
November 25, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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i am tired of your tim snyder quotes 😬
November 18, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Hey friends can I ask you all to follow @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , an excellent project that facilitates artists, scholars, & others leading workshops where all receipts provide desperately needed support to Gazans?
November 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Never listened to Rachmanninoff’s Liturgy of St John C before and I really wasn’t prepared for it when I casually threw it on
November 17, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Does…the Atlantic writer not get that Michael’s hatred of Toby is played as comically deranged
Just say you want Maureen Dowd's job, this is taking forever
November 13, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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you could ask your library to order if you want
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2024 at 1:24 AM
“It’s not going to go well” exudes hilarious villain energy over a little website where friends post random little thoughts
November 12, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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I would just like to point out that this particular kind of grief is famously not “unspoken”
November 12, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Wearing my partner’s Bernie 2016 tshirt at the gym, wanting to explain that my politics are way more annoying than that
November 12, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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I'm thrilled to report that my book has been nominated for the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association's Marilyn Gaull Book Award, "conferred annually in recognition of the most outstanding monograph, biography, or scholarly edition reviewed during the previous year." Exciting!
November 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I’ve had enough blood taken from me over 10 months of weekly therapeutic phlebotomy to have completely exsanguinated me a bit more than twice. Today I learned my iron and ferritin levels are now like normies’ without a genetic iron thing. It remains funny that “bleed them!” is the best treatment
August 19, 2023 at 4:40 AM
The AAR doing awards for good journalism covering the subject area of a largely academic org (religion, here) is a thing all major academic orgs should do. Great writing

https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/AARMBR/Publications-and-News-/Newsroom-/News-/2023/2023-Journalism-Awards.aspx
August 11, 2023 at 6:30 AM
Is Freddie deBoer on here so I can yell at him for being a massive moron asshole who does fake rape accusations
July 27, 2023 at 7:09 AM
When is Glenn Greenwald showing up here so I can bully him without being blocked
July 12, 2023 at 2:46 AM
Is there an anarchist scene here yet or what
July 3, 2023 at 5:47 AM