Evie Shockley
poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
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- Reposted by Evie Shockley💔💔💔 rest in peace, Faith Ringgold
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyOh you thought the earthquake before the eclipse was wild? Mount Etna in Sicily is sending out volcanic Spaghetti-O's right now: apnews.com/video/italy-...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyThey're talking about water being diverted from crops to data centers.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyOctavia E. Butler predicted that we will soon have ballots that only have the candidates' photos because most won't be able to read and people will decide based on who looks "presidential" and tells them what they want to hear.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyIn just three weeks we're hosting--online--poet & scholar @seminewblack.bsky.social who will explore how Black #poetry and other artwork 1990-2015 engaged/interrogated the period's dominant ideology of "colorblindness," looking especially at intersections of text & image. Free: register today!
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyMay His Memory be for a Revolution
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyQuite the #Oscars image by @vpsreports.bsky.social
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyThis is a relief: researchers who test the tests confirm that COVID rapid home tests are sensitive to new variants. Please test whenever you feel even slightly sick or have been exposed to COVID. You can have it and transmit it without symptoms 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyIt will be sold online and in the family planning aisle of drugstores, convenience stores and supermarkets later this month, the manufacturer announced Monday.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyWe never ask this about bombs.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyThat's so weird I must have missed the nyt breaking news alert
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- Reposted by Evie ShockleyPicture below is of bird straddling two flowers with both legs apart like Van Damme.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyWhat does it mean to unmake history? To sound a future one. Don't miss today's episode with Canisia Lubrin, about her 59 stories that, alongside Torkwase Dyson, with pen and with brush, unmake the 59 Black codes of King Louis XIV. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/cani...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyIt’s truly amazing to see this particular comic traveling around social media uncredited and apparently edited. Original from FB on left. Artist: eat the rich comedian / FB eattherich_comic / IG
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyBeing a Christian and a capitalist requires way more theological creativity than being Christian and LGBTQ-affirming IMO
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- What other forms of knowledge are too expensive to maintain, Duke U? Asking for a society.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyOuch damn
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyLibrary Folks: A new article co-written by me dropped today - The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet) Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries. I hope you will take a look 👀 crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyHappy Lunar New Year! 🐉
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- Hey, folks! The deadline for applications to REDI has been extended to Feb. 21. If you just needed a bit more time—you got it! Send us your interested / curious students! ✌🏽
- Literature Profs: do you have a strong student of a background underrepresented in the professoriate whom you’d like to encourage to consider pursuing a Ph.D. in literary studies? Or are *you* that student? The REDI program is accepting applications now! english.rutgers.edu/redi-home.html
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyIn case you missed it, there’s still time to read my amicus brief in Trump v Anderson: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...
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- Whatcha doing Saturday evening, NYC? Getting your Black poetry fix, you say? Right on. Come celebrate a fabulous new anthology: This Is the Honey! I hope to see you there! www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyNEWS: The @chicagotribune newsroom is walking out on strike tomorrow alongside Alden Tribune journalists across the country in our fight for a fair contract. DON’T read the paper or website tomorrow. We will rally in the morning at 560 W Grand Avenue. This is our open letter.
- Reposted by Evie Shockley✊ Don't cross the line!
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- Literature Profs: do you have a strong student of a background underrepresented in the professoriate whom you’d like to encourage to consider pursuing a Ph.D. in literary studies? Or are *you* that student? The REDI program is accepting applications now! english.rutgers.edu/redi-home.html
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyTruest board I’ve ever written. - Michael
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyAbsolutely unhinged behavior. Bullying a minor should have already disqualified them from this job, this is just the cherry on top.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyCSU Faculty strike - first ever - 1 day in. Got new terms! Notified 10mins ago of the terms. - WOAH! Also, our students are so incredible....
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- I’m so excited to chat with Courtney about her work! Don’t you want to know the stories behind this amazing photo?! 🔥
- On Sunday, January 7 at 4:00 pm, join Courtney Thorsson (@courtneythorsson.bsky.social) as she discusses her book THE SISTERHOOD w/ Evie Shockley (@seminewblack.bsky.social) at Harriet's Bookshop in Philadelphia. bit.ly/3pgLl8O
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyThe director of Harvard Hillel for 18 years, from 1993-2010, Bernie Steinberg, says "enough" — For the Safety of Jews and Palestinians, Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyAlong w/ @rosecasey.bsky.social & @jessiew.bsky.social, I’m honored that our open letter was the second most read piece @bostonreview.bsky.social in 2023. We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyMy Reading Year. (My last Guardian Books cartoon of 2023)
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyCOVID-19 levels high ahead of holiday travel season www.axios.com/2023/12/19/c...
- I needed Jericho Brown’s poem today. This world is taking taking taking, but here’s a gift. 💜✊🏽🙏🏽 poets.org/poem/lenoir
- Reposted by Evie Shockley“I feel crazy having to point this out, but: if you say that you want Israel to stop killing so many civilians, and at the same time you're sending Israel weapons you know are being used to kill civilians, you don't actually want Israel to stop.”
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- Reposted by Evie ShockleyHappening now! Support @jvp.bsky.social if you can.
- Marilyn Chin’s new work is simply stunning. She has found & perfected her form in these cross-cultural couplets & quatrains that she has been writing in more & more. Wow!! 😍👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 poems.com/poem/i-am-yo...
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyThe Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
- Where are the best places to channel donations in advance of & during the ceasefire—or in general? Please share suggestions & RT. 🙏🏽✌🏽
- Reposted by Evie Shockley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “The legal action was filed under New York state's Adult Survivors Act, which expires on Friday.”
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- Reposted by Evie ShockleyThe Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu
- I don’t think one can imagine what this loss feels like. Alnaouq himself can’t describe it. But he can tell us what their lives were like. And we can try to imagine that.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyLondon-based Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, on Twitter: 'I recorded a voice tribute to my 14 nieces and nephews killed by Israel in Oct. 22. Please listen and share so the world knows the stories of these victims, their faces, names, ages and dreams.'
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- Reposted by Evie Shockleywisława szymborska, the end and the beginning.
- Reposted by Evie ShockleyHanging around that $7,000 mark still, we need to raise that much by the end of the month for our callers seeking abortion care! www.DonorBox.org/support-the-fund
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