Earthseed Day: Octavia Butler Day. It is July 20 2024, the first page of the diaries of Lauren Oya Olamina. Massive global read along. I urge you to read or listen to the audiobook THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. Support your libraries and bookshops! “The only lasting truth is change”

I am hearing reports of some airlines only offering flight credits to passengers for cancelled flights.  Let me be clear — you are entitled to get your money back promptly if your flight is cancelled and you don't take a rebooking.

James Baldwin said for writers, a public differs from an audience. “A public reacts to a personality. And God knows we should know that in this country by now. And personalities come and go like fast food.” With an audience, there’s “an unspoken bond...to try to tell the truth.”

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Hey friends, I wrote a thing! Would you RT and please pre-order my book Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Rot, Jelly. A labor of love about weird materials, strange movement, sticky and bouncy feelings!. nyupress.org/9781479819225/…

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We’re hiring in Black Digital Humanities @ the assistant level! faculty.utexas.edu/career/142491

Applications close on Friday!

Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Kate Parizeau and I develop a framework for ethnographers and fieldwork-based researchers to work ethically with marginalized/vulnerable communities.

I’m realizing the syllabus doesn’t mean the same thing (to students) as it used to. That isnt necessarily bad. But it puts why asking students to review it on their own or “it’s in the syllabus” doesn’t always work.

“In the US, we don’t respond to harm with a trauma-informed lens, & that’s leading in part to mass incarceration.” Tamar Sarai spoke with Benevolence Farm’s Kristen Powers about providing radical new possibilities for formerly incarcerated women. prismreports.org/2024/09/09/rur…

friends in the university press world: are there conversations/debates about reviewer timeline? It seems 4 to 6 weeks is still the standard but is increasingly untenable. how are y'all thinking about this these days? lucas church, Ken Wissoker, others?

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