Winston-Salem scaled back proposed park rules and dropped proposed bans on camping and large bags after council concerns they could target people who are unhoused. #WFDD #WinstonSalem #parks #homelessness

Helpful clarification from Catherine Walsh (2023):

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

"I imagine in that mythic clearing at Bois Caïman those gathered call each other poet and in that tongue they steal away to the ritual of keeping alive in themselves that ecstasy of freedom dreams."

from Canisia Lubrin's amazing Alchemy Lecture

thank you @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.

“Given the rental markets across the country, it’s not an easy thing to find an apartment to rent in just a few weeks.” 

theintercept.com/2025/08/15/t...

By @theintercept.com’s @jesswash.bsky.social

#housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

Don Flow and his cronies want to pay $1 a month for 8 publicly-owned parcels of land downtown. They tell us they'll build an amphitheater at no cost to the public. But parking, traffic, safety, and noise burdens will be borne by residents while the owners of the proposed venue rake in profits.

Appalling, ghastly terrorism and kidnapping in Greensboro.

"When asked if he had ever been harassed because of his heritage, ... he told them. "Yes, by you when you came to my house to try and kidnap me without any identification or a warrant, and when you detained me today."

Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...

WSNC

New (May 2025): Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense – Edited by María Lugones and Patrick M. Crowley | Indiana University Press | More information can be found here: iupress.org/978025307305...

Caribbean Philosophical Association (@caribphil.bsky.social) members will want to know about Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense, a new volume of essays co-edited by María Lugones (1944-2020), past winner of Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award. tinyurl.com/aka5fcjh

There are more fascinating new books than anyone can keep up with, but to those interested in nontraditional scholarship on questions of coloniality, check out Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense, co-edited by the late philosopher María Lugones.
tinyurl.com/aka5fcjh

Watching Babylon burnin' red hot, red hot ...

Congratulations to Dionne Brand for winning the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Nonfiction for Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.
ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into Salvage:
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion...
@fsgbooks.bsky.social

How to make room in my kitchen for a samovar? Ditch the instantpot?

Hiya b-sky. giving this a try.

looking for: laundry hacks, 1990s pro-wrestling gossip

will trade: literary hot takes, Bob Marley misquotes