Thank you for this opportunity to talk about the reality behind the Mauritian rainbow curtain! The episode is available on all major platforms that host podcasts. Fer nou kone ki zot panse ! L'épisode est en français.

Bravo Island Pieces! An important discussion on the history of resistance from the Mauritius islands - from Ana and other captives in the 17th c, Anjalay and workers strikes (poster), the Chagossian movement, Rodrigues parliamentary autonomy, Kaya to mobilisation post wakashio …

✨✨Christina Sharpe!!!! Ordinary Notes!!!!✨✨ The truly extraordinary book that will change you, will rework you, will remake you. Congratulations on the National Book Foundation nonfiction longlist nod ✨ Our conversation about it: Audio🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/christ… @hystericalblkns

freedom cannot be legislated — rinaldo walcott

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ will deliver its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel this Friday, 26 January 2024, at 1 p.m. (The Hague). Watch live on UN Web TV tinyurl.com/5n6m94px

What does it mean to unmake history? To sound a future one. Don't miss today's episode with Canisia Lubrin, about her 59 stories that, alongside Torkwase Dyson, with pen and with brush, unmake the 59 Black codes of King Louis XIV. Audio:📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/canisi…

Thrilled to be part of the 23 shortlisted out of 7000+ entries for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Congrats to the other writers!

Bravo Reena Usha Rungoo — a big boost for anglophone literature from the Indian Ocean region. Excited your words found home in the readers and judges of the Prize Next we will read you either on addastories.org🤩or Granta!!! Enjoy the ride

close reading is more than a literary skill- it is a political skill

Unlearning War in the Classroom Watch the full program here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=C4b3dn…

"The ANC’s 1994 electoral victory and its memory, however, obscures this tension within the global anti-Apartheid movement," writes Amanda Joyce Hall today at Black Perspectives. Read the first installment in our forum, "The End of South African Apartheid" : aaihs.org/african-libera…

Our new posting of “Caliban’s Readings” is now available. Please join Sarah Bruno in discussing the aesthetics of redaction and its role in Caribbean thought. caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/caribbean…

We stand with the campus protesters. We're now offering free ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions.

"The wars they recorded were the wars they won...no one carried their writings across a river on their head...or sewn into the precious fold of a hem." #DionneBrand reads from her book, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems. youtube.com/watch?v=0n_zBZ… #bocas2024⚡️ngctrinidadandtobago

How disappointing. And disheartening. The The Society of Authors members vote against a resolution to make a statement re the killing of fellow writers, the destruction of Palestinian cultural institutions in Gaza. And to call for peace. 786 members for: 883 against. How very sad.