Our first author sighting at the @swpaca.bsky.social exhibit is @upmississippi.bsky.social author Penelope Ingram, shown below with her book Imperiled Whiteness. #swpca2026 #PopCulture

if i closed all 81 tabs in my browser would my life be better, worse, or the same

okay this seems like a good moment for this: do you guys think video games are art

Hope Is a Discipline This hateful regime wants to exhaust us and convince us that victory will be theirs. We have the individual and collective power to prove them wrong.

“They want us to feel overwhelmed and exhausted…to be full of despair and doubt there’s a way to overcome this hostile regime…This is the playbook to hasten their takeover by silencing dissent and convincing us their victory is inevitable.” Don’t believe it.
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Glorious pastel sky

“Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between.”
📷 Barry Butler Photography

Resist the regime.

Reading books is resistance.

Buying books is resistance.

Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrating books is resistance.

Resist this regime.

Collective Survival, Adaption and Direct Action Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media.

I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.

are there any interesting genre criticisms about childish gambino’s latest albums? namely, atavista?

I’m looking to draft a film course on religious horror in the 21st century. what are some essential readings? :)

"Hard times are coming when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom-poets, visionaries-realists of a
larger reality." - Ursula Le Guin

There’s work to do.

A thread of Historian Starter Packs to help find your communities.

First Pop Culture and Media:
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