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@ActuallyAisha

Academic (children's literature, spatiality, nationalisms, fantasy); reviews editor (@strangehorizons); other things, probably.

Katılım Nisan 2008
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Indrapramit Das
Indrapramit Das@IndrapramitDas·
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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Emma Szewczak
Emma Szewczak@EmmaSzewczak·
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
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Dan Hartland
Dan Hartland@danhartland·
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-fiction/az…
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Dan Hartland@danhartland·
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-janua…
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Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊
Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊@nilanjanaroy·
🌿🍂 "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.
The Tribune@thetribunechd

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/ke… @sarikaksharma

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Dan Hartland
Dan Hartland@danhartland·
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!
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Aisha@ActuallyAisha·
@galtor To be fair, that is less a commentary on Ulysses's difficulty, and more on that one podcast.
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David Bergman
David Bergman@TheDavidBergman·
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
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Aisha@ActuallyAisha·
@_vajra We should probably stop defaulting to you as "a good example of what we think writers SHOULD be doing - "; it's getting lazy.
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Vajra Chandrasekera@_vajra·
Aisha and Dan on genre as technique, one of my favourite subjects, and with a lovely shoutout to THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS! (Also, reminder: the Strange Horizons fund drive is on, and you can get signed copies of SAINT and RAKESFALL as a backer reward!)
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🚨 New Critical Friends podcast now up! Join @ActuallyAisha and me to consider genre's critical boundaries - how can we define them, to what ends? On the way we mention Isabella Hammad and @V_V_G, JRR Tolkien and @_vajra, The @NewYorker & more. strangehorizons.com/podcasts/criti…

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Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons@strangehorizons·
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! strangehorizons.com/podcasts/criti… We're now under $1K away from our base goal! To get us there: kickstarter.com/projects/stran…
Strange Horizons@strangehorizons

📣📣It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. 📣📣 To donate: kickstarter.com/projects/stran… 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:

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Dan Hartland
Dan Hartland@danhartland·
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.
Strange Horizons@strangehorizons

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/phonet… We're under $2.5K away from our base goal. To get us there: kickstarter.com/projects/stran…

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Dan Hartland
Dan Hartland@danhartland·
And the winner is Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan, a novel "equal parts compelling war story and meaningful philosophical inquiry" (say I). It was my second choice on rhe shortlist - I did love the Enright. But the eventual winner really is a book of rare empathetic poise.
Dan Hartland@danhartland

"The Women’s Prize seems to me consistently to square umpteen circles.' In which I blog - yes, blog! - about this year's @WomensPrize shortlist: thestoryandthetruth.wordpress.com/2024/06/13/the…

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Dan Hartland
Dan Hartland@danhartland·
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. 💫
Strange Horizons@strangehorizons

📣📣It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. 📣📣 To donate: kickstarter.com/projects/stran… 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:

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