Dear xxx. I don’t want anyone to curate my books and ideas, generate a wider audience, world-make my scholarship, share the urgency and harm, circulate me, omg lol. Leave me alone!

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The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms.

This issue is now available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social; 🔗 link: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

Book cover for Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking and the American City

I know our names basically sound the same, but I could never have imagined this. Born in Flames has won the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Award in Nonfiction. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more honored.

Til housing stability is not a luxury.

@wwnorton.com

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All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) [Naylor, Lindsay, Christopher, Emerald, Eaves, LaToya, Kinkaid, Eden, Faria, Caroline] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

Good morning! I got an alert that my new book is 50% off right now at this site…

All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) a.co/d/0bFsKbjj

Demonic Grounds The field-defining text for black geographies—now with a new foreword and afterwordThe initial publication of Demonic Grounds in 2006 marked a watershed fo...

You can catch DG at 20 here:

www.upress.umn.edu/978151792141...

And Heartbreak and Other Geographies too:

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

With a forward by Simone Browne and an afterword by Sylvia Wynter. Demonic Grounds is 20 and still twirling.

thank you as always!

Congratulations Prof! ✌🏾🎶📚📖

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Forgotten: The Things We Lost In Kanye's Gospel Year In 2019, Kanye West rose from the ashes of a career flameout by taking his faith on tour. But engaging with this self-styled salvation means forgetting what gospel music was created to do.

in 2018 i published an essay with npr music about kanye and gospel music. but also about the problem of celebrity and the refusal to reckon with empire. sadly, every single move he’s made since this essay has only intensified its truth.

www.npr.org/2019/10/23/7...

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Someone sent me this.

Book cover for Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth by Laurie Hertzel. Two-story house with porch and railing filtered in quadrants of red and blue. A bicycle stands in front and a transparent book floats at the roofline.

Book cover for Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (20th Anniversary Edition) by Katherine McKittrick. Archways and window openings of ruined stone structure. Title above and author below. Red medallion for 20th anniversary edition.

Book cover for Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Writings of Katherine McKittrick, edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne. Below, a tower audio speaker stands upright in an empty warehouse space, lit in saturated purple. Title in bold purple above, on a white panel.

Book cover for Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White by Rhea Rahman. Cream background with intricate mosaic patter in two corners. Its pieces come loose and circulate the type in the otherwise empty center.

Four wonderful titles out today!

-the "achingly generous" Ghosts of Fourth Street by @lhertzel.bsky.social

-Katherine McKittrick x2: the 20th anniv. ed. of DEMONIC GROUNDS & the collection Heartbreak and Other Geographies (co-ed: @camillahawth.bsky.social )

-Racializing the Ummah by Rhea Rahman

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CAPE Awards For deadlines and application/nomination guidelines, please see individual award descriptions. 2026 Award Winners Dr. James McCarthy (Clark University) was awarded the 2026 Cultural and Political E…

So happy to share my book was chosen for the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology by CAPE specialty group! AwA'ahdah! See the other award winners here:

capeaag.wordpress.com/cape-awards/

yesterday, too.

Swoon!

Hope you enjoy, rob! Out everywhere April 7. And with new intro/afters by Michael Nardone (Livingstone) and Katherine McKittrick (She Tries).

awaiting small one’s first game in this weekend’s ringette tournament; did you know that Invisible Publishing just re-issued two poetry titles by m. nourbeSe philip? // @invisibooks.bsky.social

Revisiting the “No-State ‘Solution’”: Palestinian Futurity Beyond the Nation-State In April 2014, Léopold Lambert and Sophia Azeb met for the first time to record an episode of The Funambulist’s podcast—about a year before the magazine even began to exist. The title and topic of…

"This also brings to mind @demonicgrounds.bsky.social + Nasrin Himada’s ongoing 'Sylvia Wynter Through + W/ Palestine' wrkshp + their urgent insistence on rdg Black + 🇵🇸 thought [in] relation, which [opens up] distinct ways of thinking abt nation + statehood[, of discerning] btw 'land' + 'soil'..."

home!

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Last touches on a report for Progress in Human Geography. Any lit in EconGeo you want to see featured? Condition: work needs to exhibit a deeper understanding of market/monopoly/monopsony/infrastructural power, mono-/oligipolistic competition, Bigness and be rooted primarily in Geography. #geosky

what I have been up to so far…

I’m so grateful for the friendship that emerged alongside this book! ✌🏾🎶🥹

I'm also reflecting on the fact that I've been attending the AAGs and publishing in geography for over two decades. I was a young editorial assistant when I worked on DEMONIC GROUNDS, and it blew my mind. One of those books that knocks your thinking into a totally new orbit.

Super excited to be heading to (balmy) San Francisco today for the #AAG #AAG26 meeting. We have a stellar lineup of new works in geography. I am so excited to showcase a 20th anniversary edition of Katherine McKittrick's (@demonicgrounds.bsky.social) field-defining DEMONIC GROUNDS.

What Walter Benjamin Knew A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."