An ad hoc group of Canadian academics have named September 9th and 10th as days of anti-racist action: Scholars across Canadian universities are outraged at the relentless anti-Black police killings of Black people in the U.S. and in Canada. As athletes have done, so, too, must academics. We will be joining thousands of academics in…
It has been over a year since I last posted here; recently any urges toward online communication have been funnelled into FB, instagram, and my teaching weblogs. I have periodically thought that I really should, that it is certainly time to, that it has been too long, but those impulses have always passed. Now, however,…
Am almost finished reading Walking the Clouds, an anthology of Indigenous SFF edited by Grace L. Dillon, and am enjoying it immensely. These stories put all the blurbs and reviews that describe this or that writer or text as “expanding the genre” in perspective. Came to be reading the collection as part of the mapping side-project I am…
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers. — Margaret Cavendish
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