PhD student in English (he/him)
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Elijah S. Levine retweeted
Malcolm Gladwell is a fucking fraud and has made a career and millions just spewing bullshit that falls apart if you have a working brain or decide to lightly fact-check him. A phenomenally stupid man and grifter.
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
rip Not Sidney Poitier’s adoptive guardian 🙏
Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. cnn.it/4d7tcQ2
i wrote something about the proliferation of lists in/as music criticism and their increasing tendency to foist legitimacy for the rankings onto the list’s very audience
open.substack.com/pub/sudden…
My article on Charles Burnett’s 1978 film Killer of Sheep and the labor of black aesthetics in the long 1970s is out now in Black Camera! Let me know if you want to read it.
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
Lauren Berlant on infantile citizenship and “adult citizens” who have “learned how to forget” (1997).
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
Today on Edge Effects podcast, @eslevinee speaks with Celeste Winston about marronage as a Black placemaking practice, which can shape our imagination of a world without police. Listen/read more: edgeeffects.net/celeste-wins…
deadline is friday!
some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! politicalecology.org/session…
some friends and i put together a panel on wynter’s black metamorphosis for the political ecology working group next february. send us your abstracts! politicalecology.org/session…
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
Americans are amazing. They think freedoms are dependent on the goodwill of rulers but still believe it's a democracy. Their elections keep getting stolen and they think they'll fix it by voting. And their famed system is now giving a choice between a genocidaire and a fascist.
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
The struggle playing out in Atlanta is a fight for the future. If the state is successful in its prosectuion, then this will set a terrifying precedent going forward. No act of protest is protected, and no one is safe.
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
10/26 - 4pm ET
Fanonian psychoanalysis, settler colonialism, and Palestinian Resistance with Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi
youtube.com/watch?v=duZfw-CG…
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
from a friend:
ALT Photo of a young James Baldwin with a quote from his book No Name In The Street that says: There will be bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come: but the Western party is over, and the white man's sun has set.
Elijah S. Levine retweeted
For @nplusonemag, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
