**COVER REVEAL**
I am beyond excited to share with you:
Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development
coming Feb. 2027!
HOLY SHIT THE COVER IS SOOOOO COOOOOOOOL 🔥🤯😍✨
NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.
Incredible to realize this series was one De’Aaron Fox floater/Stephon Castle free throw away from being a Knicks sweep.
have to wonder what the initial dozen specialists found that necessitated bringing in ten more tbh
also I've been trying to construct this take and I stand by it: that game was a victory for big city liberalism
Jenna Hanchey
Rebecca Solnit
Spencer Ackerman
I remember when “Obama watches too much basketball” was a criticism that was lobbed from the both sides of the aisle.
CALL your reps and tell them this is unacceptable.
If we have money to blow up water facilities in Iran, we damn well have money to fund public transit.
darth™️
In my experience, it’s pretty awful.
Gift link:
The Southern Baptist Convention just elected a president who, per RNS, believes the abuse crisis is "more hoax than reality." If you're wondering how that happened despite 8 years of reporting on the issue, look to the legacy of Paul Pressler, an alleged predator who remade the SBC in his image:
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development is (tentatively, fingers crossed, if spirit aligns) hitting shelves 02/02/2027 🎉
Trump sees 22 medical specialists, appearing to set new bar for presidents
Trump saw about a dozen specialists for prior checkups, per past statements. The White House has declined to identify which physicians assessed him.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Big Ol’ Mush
Jane Coaston
Trump saw about a dozen specialists for prior check-ups, per past statements. The White House has declined to identify which specialists assessed the president.
Even as I write this, I guarantee you there are both creepypasta stories being written by random teenagers about Elias Thorne being a machine God and also there are billionaires running the world who will sincerely think Elias Thorne is a machine God
Revisions are in, permissions acquired, formatting approved, AND SO
Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development is officially ** in production ** 🤸♀️🎉🥰✨
(now excuse me while i collapse into a puddle and sleep forever)
Kim
Renee Dechert
Jenna Hanchey
Robert Downen
AHH Decolonial Dreamwork has been "enthusiastically" approved by the editorial board -- officially *forthcoming* from Ohio State University Press's New Suns series!
AND AND AND
One reviewer said it has the capacity to "both win awards and change people's lives" 🥹🥹🥹
Paul Pressler is one of the most influential figures you may have never heard of. The onetime judge remade the Southern Baptist Convention, and helped forge the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. As he did so he also committed decades of alleged abuses. A long look at his legacy:
Spencer Ackerman
Thembo
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
Everyone. THE BOOK IS DRAFTED.
**Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development**
I wrote it through so much overwhelm and grief. But also in deeper sensitivity to intimacies with land and the dead, how we all touch. I hope it's as meaningful to others as it is to me.
