Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Wong and Dr. Kimberly Bain on each winning a 2024 SSHRC Insight Development Grant! Read this announcement to learn more about their respective projects, and join EL&L in celebrating their achievements. english.ubc.ca/news/kimberly-…

The #WeeklyRead is "Made in Asia/America," edited by Christopher B. Patterson @kawikaguillermo and Tara Fickle Tara Fickle, which explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Read it now for free! ow.ly/5WtI50SwiOl

wow. no…just no. thisis a bad take alice munro’s daughter makes it clear munro knew about the abuse & stayed w/her stepfather anyway this take is indicative of a literary world that too often prizes their icons’ reputations & preservations of legacy above all else—& it’s wrong

After 71 days, our encampment on “McInnes Field” on Musquem land has concluded. OUR FIGHT CONTINUES. We decamped on our own terms — just like we will win on our own terms. The divestment movement did not begin, nor will it end, with student encampments. FULL STATEMENT TO COME.

It's out! You can order WHEN MONSTERS SPEAK: A SUSAN STRYKER READER direct from Duke University Press here: dukeupress.edu/when-monsters-…

Scotiabank fears protesters, yet appears willing to let the Giller Prize lose its credibility while the bank continues to make obscene amounts of money from weapons manufacturers. Time to walk away from Scotiabank if they can't walk away from Elbit.

I have always emphasized the significance of Patrica Hill-Collins' work when I teach about what “intersectionality” is. Because without an understanding of what Hill-Collins refers to as the matrix of domination, intersectionality is easily misunderstood as an issue of identities

If you listen to any episode of our show, make it this one. Canadian writers are withdrawing their books from consideration for the biggest literary prize in Canada. Today, I talked to Omar El Akkad about it. open.spotify.com/episode/7iKjcX…

I weep, listening. Omar El Akkad is telling the truth. We offered a way for alternate funding. Scotiabank is the largest foreign investor in Elbit. Their weapons are implicated in crimes against humanity. The @gillerprize could choose another way. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/com…

I will never back down in speaking truth to power. The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.

I don’t know how to do anything but write. In November of 2023, I started writing about what it means to live under an ordering of the world that abides slaughter, and whether any ordering that does ever stood for anything at all. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485/o…

This is Horrific They dont want the world to know this

It was a pleasure to be featured with Tara Fickle on the New Books in Game Studies podcast to discuss our collection MADE IN ASIA/AMERICA. Thanks to New Books Network 📚, Duke University Press and all the contributors who took part. The book is Free to Read Online now! newbooksnetwork.com/made-in-asia-a…

You can preorder this beautiful memoir by the late Y-Dang Troeung, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide, from our bookstore site. All proceeds go to Mohammed’s family, who are struggling to survive Israel’s current and ongoing genocide of Palestine …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/wo…

I’m so thankful to the editors and workers at Duke University Press and all the editors and supporters who made this possible. Read a free excerpt now of Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge, and order now to receive it in October!

Myself and Tara Fickle will be presenting as featured speakers at this year’s Game Devs of Color Expo is NEXT WEEK! 🙌🏾 !! See the full schedule below and DM me for discounted tickets ✌🏽✌🏽

🇮🇱 media: We did it 🇺🇸media: Who knows

Thanks to The Gay & Lesbian Review for asking me to write about the “anti-memoir” genre of Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir. If you are teaching or planning to teach Nimrods (Duke University Press), please consider this as a supplement. glreview.org/anti-memoir-an…

Nearly 70 percent of mining companies globally are headquartered in Canada and 50 percent of the world's publicly listed mining and mineral exploration companies are in Canada.

I will once again be speaking this week at Game Devs of Color Expo is THIS WEEK! 🙌🏾, this time with Tara Fickle on our edited collection, MADE IN ASIA/AMERICA: WHY VIDEO GAMES WERE NEVER REALLY ABOUT US (Duke University Press). Message me for a 20% off discount, or more if you’re a student.