Category Archives: Lit Review

Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

The fact that we must specify our identities in advance before making our argument is an index of how powerful, widespread, and largely unquestioned is the premise that arguments always reduce to identity positions. Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

Elizabeth Gilbert pulls Russian-set book from publishing schedule. ‹ Literary Hub

Last week, Elizabeth Gilbert announced the forthcoming publication of The Snow Forest, a novel set in Siberia about a family who flee Soviet forces, escaping to the forest where they “protect nature against industrialization.” After an “overwhelming” response from the Ukrainian diaspora over the weekend, Gilbert announced on Twitter on Monday that she was pausingContinue reading “Elizabeth Gilbert pulls Russian-set book from publishing schedule. ‹ Literary Hub”

A Joyous Killjoy Debt: To Ama Ata Aidoo | feministkilljoys

I am writing this post to express my gratitude to Ama Ata Aidoo. Ama Ata Aidoo died on May 31, 2023. Gratitude can be grief. I am deeply indebted to Ama Ata Aidoo for how she repurposed the figure of the killjoy. Her novel, Our Sister Killjoy, published in 1977, was the first text to…Continue reading “A Joyous Killjoy Debt: To Ama Ata Aidoo | feministkilljoys”