Academic (children's literature, spatiality, nationalisms, fantasy); reviews editor (@strangehorizons); other things, probably.
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Never thought I would hear myself say this, but I have lost some respect for Anand Patwardhan on reading this. Astonishing how even the progressive leftist men show their bro selves at such moments, without fail. I have hope though that many more men in Gen Z will upend this embarrassing phenomenon and be more genuine allies.
Aisha retweeted
It’s called “you read papers. Then you cite them yourself.” We do things a slow way for a reason: to ensure there is a consistent web of knowledge and to check the work of those behind you. Without that your house isn’t just built on sand, it’s MADE of sand.
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Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in urgent need of help--she lost her father recently, suffered damages to her home from the recent rains, & her mother's now in hospital. They've no insurance. She's a freelancer & really needs help. Please share & donate.
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Aisha retweeted
Can't stop thinking about this perfect illustration of TERFism: it offers women nothing, no hope, no vision for a better future, and expects us to put up with this appalling reality for the simple sake of degrading others. In its feminist guise it's a doomed movement. Thankfully
Aisha retweeted
The issue opens with a quick introduction from me and @ActuallyAisha, in which we advocate for the special - and criticism - with our usual boldness.
"What of material effect will all this criticism have achieved? Reader, we can’t say. Maybe none.“
strangehorizons.com/non-fict…
Aisha retweeted
It's here! The @strangehorizons Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews.
We'll be publishing 1 essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.
strangehorizons.com/issue/27…
Aisha retweeted
Yesterday at @strangehorizons, @Broke_Bookworm on One Hundred Shadows from @ErewhonBooks.
It’s a piece that gets a sense of the novel by making an argument: “a fascinating exploration of how we go on when we are alienated from the labour we perform.”
strangehorizons.com/non-fict…
Aisha retweeted
🌿🍂
"I think I am at peace now,
he said, for my dreams
move like the thinnest
veil of mist over water."
~ Keki Daruwalla, Notes from the Underground
(24 January 1937 - 27 September 2024)
Go gently, and thank you for the words, the heart, that conscience.
Keki N. Daruwalla, one of India’s finest poets who wrote in English and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, passed away on Friday. He was 87.
tribuneindia.com/news/punjab… @sarikaksharma
Aisha retweeted
OK, gang, heads up: the @strangehorizons Criticism Special is coming, in January of 2025. What crazy ideas have you got for us?
@ActuallyAisha and I are always particularly keen to welcome new critics to SH for these issues. We want essays, dialogues, exegeses of every kind!
Aisha retweeted
Bangladesh update: Just been informed by credible journalist that 57 protestors/bystanders were killed today, apparently all by law enforcement authorities - bringing total number of deaths since Monday to over 100. Figures based on police and hospital reports
Aisha retweeted
Episode 1 is live!
@jakecasella & @danhartland talk about THE SCAR: bold, partially-substantiated claims about the New Weird! Deep dives into narrative & aesthetics! Unexpected comparisons!
Listen now:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2…
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We've just hit our *penultimate* milestone of $12.5K, so here's a new episode of the Critical Friends podcast: @danhartland and @ActuallyAisha on boundaries in genre!
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We're now under $1K away from our base goal! To get us there:
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📣📣It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. 📣📣
To donate: kickstarter.com/projects/str…
Over the next 36 days, we're looking to raise $13,500 to stay alive through 2025, and beyond for some very special special issues! Read on:
Aisha retweeted
Now just a few hundred dollars from a *brand new episode* of the Critical Friends podcast.
That's right! For a few dollars more you get @ActuallyAisha and me talking about genre and boundaries. What donor can resist the temptation?*
*Other prizes are available.
Fund-Drive update: We've hit our next milestone - $11K - and unlocked "The Phonetics of Draconic Languages", by Leah Nodar.
Is it an essay? A story? A warning? You decide. strangehorizons.com/fiction/…
We're under $2.5K away from our base goal. To get us there: kickstarter.com/projects/str…
Aisha retweeted
I tweet a lot about @strangehorizons and the small part I play there. I sincerely think it an important magazine that does essential, valuable work. Words matter, imagining others matters, doing this responsibly matters.
It also needs funds. If you can spare some, please do. 💫
📣📣It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. 📣📣
To donate: kickstarter.com/projects/str…
Over the next 36 days, we're looking to raise $13,500 to stay alive through 2025, and beyond for some very special special issues! Read on:
Aisha retweeted
2024's Best Related Work Hugo list is quite the thing, not least for featuring m'learned friend @niallharrison. Poignant, too, that @maureenkspeller has been nominated posthumously for what @ActuallyAisha and I refer to in the book as "decades of truth-seeking". Quite the thing.
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan
There were 775 ballots cast for 246 nominees. Finalists got between 36 and 343 votes.
(3/3)
#Glasgow2024 #HugoFinalists #Hugos
Aisha retweeted
THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/the-sain…
Aisha retweeted
Reminder that for most Indian women, not travelling and staying at home also exposes one to sexual violence at some stage of one's life.
This isn't defamation, it's the Union government's National Family Health Survey data.
Aisha retweeted
600,000 children & their families, famished & traumatized, displaced multiple times by 4 months of military assault in the Gaza open-air prison, are now ammassed in Rafah. The risk of a massacre of unparalleled scale looms on the horizon.
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
unicef.org/press-releases/st…
Aisha retweeted
The 2024 @strangehorizons Criticism Special is here!
I'll thread thoughts on the pieces in this jam-packed issue through the week, but why not start with the editorial from @ActuallyAisha and me?
"Is it enough just to say, 'We still believe this'?"
strangehorizons.com/non-fict…
Aisha retweeted
Re Chile: “I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.”
Here are the top 10 most callous and inhumane Henry Kissinger quotes rawstory.com/2016/02/here-ar… someone want to try a list for Churchill!?
