This is an incredible chart from Al Jazeera.
It shows just how barbaric US foreign policy has been, bombing ten countries this century.
The United States is a nation addicted to war.
Thanks so much, Christina! 💙💙💙
I'm so pleased and humbled to see A Sense of Arrival on the shortlist for the Bocas Prize! Congratulations to the other authors! Get your copy at @dukepress.bsky.social bookstore!
📣Literature-lovers! Bocas Lit Fest 2026 — T&T's biggest annual festival of books, writers, words, stories, and ideas — takes place 30 April to 03 May, 2026!
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The video for yesterday’s event with @drbrowne.bsky.social and I facilitated by @blacklikewho.bsky.social is here: m.youtube.com/live/qzOVkLe...
Concepts of “arrival” and “survival” are celebrated and interrogated in the latest books by @drbrowne.bsky.social (A Sense of Arrival) and @alexispauline.bsky.social (Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde).
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
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Really looking forward to this!
Informational flyer for the launch of A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne.
So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)!
The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others.
An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.
Covers of Police and the Empire City, Unsettling Queer Anthropology, When Monsters Speak, Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art, What Had Happened Was, A Sense of Arrival, Boys Abducted, and Learning to Lead, arranged in a 4x4 grid.
Among the many authors with events in April are @arlenedavila.bsky.social
@a-arvas.bsky.social @drbrowne.bsky.social and @jennrnajera.bsky.social . Hope you can make it to some!
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Informational flyer for the launch of A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne.
So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)!
The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others.
An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.
A photograph of author and artist Kevin Adonis Browne as a Blue Devil, covered in blue paint with horns during the annual Jouvay ritual in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Me. Jouvay.
"The most salient lesson from “Sower,” for me—and one that runs throughout Butler’s work—is about the innovation and adaptation required to survive the unsurvivable."
Lessons for the End of the World | Hanif Abdurraqib
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
Who doh hear will feel.
The Journal of West Indian Literature (@jwilonline) has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986. Our most recent issue can be found here:
www.jwilonline.org/downloads/vo...
🇭🇹📣We are FIVE DAYS away from: Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present, and Future🇭🇹📣
↪️The symposium is free and open to all, online and in person, with preregistration at bit.ly/Haiti2025
Co-organized by MCLC'S Jacqueline Couti and Linsey Sainte-Claire.
I know I should be promoting my book. I'm dealing with some things that have made it difficult to do much else—even promote this work that I love and that is so beautiful. I want to. But, life. I hope it finds its way to you. More than that, I hope you're finding ways to live in spite of this world.
i am reminded that in moments of tyranny, our imagination ffor better & for black futures is the first thing to be seized.
for my 5th (!) annual 28 films for the 28 days of black history month, i highlighted 28 black cinematic visions of resistance, childlike wonder, and unending imagination:
January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
Small Axe 74, July 2024 is available! Explore the issue here: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/74 published by @dukepress.bsky.social