Jérôme Melançon

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Il/lui/him/he. Écrivain (philosophie, poésie, sciences sociales) & writer (same). Prof @ University of Regina. Looking for new forms and contents. Derniers livres : En d'sous d'la langue (Prise de parole); La politique dans l'adversité (Metispresses).

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Okay, so. We philosophers call this epistemic injustice and epistemic violence. Epistemic injustice is an injustice that centers on attacking a person’s status as a knower. Epistemic violence is wielding one’s status as a knower to do harm to someone else as a knower.

I don't talk about what I know about certain shit on here because your knowledge and understanding is never good or pure enough for white people. They think they set the standards for respect and objectivity, and dictate the means of analyzing things. Like they invented science or thinking. Miss me.

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Dear friends, I have started a literary event organization service to help authors and publishers. I have over 20 years of experience as a host and literary event organizer. I want to help you create a celebration for your book launch. More info: tinyurl.com/AmandaEarlOr...

Amanda Earl Organizes Literary Eventstinyurl.com Amanda Earl Organizes Literary Events a turnkey service For authors and publishers who wish to have a reading of poetry or prose in Ottawa or on Zoom, I offer the following services for a $100 fee. ...

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

The GOP is going all in on "if you call Trump a fascist you're endorsing and causing political violence" and these feckless fucks in the media are just furrowing their brows with performative concern and going along with it. Jfc

There's a world in which Macron asks Hollande to form the government now 😆 😆

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“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

Gaza’s remaining hospitals will stop working in two days, health officials warnwww.washingtonpost.com Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, aid groups warned. Fighting goes in Shejaiya, Gaza City, the IDF said.

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If you are a current or former Ottawa student, resident or worker, you are invited to submit up to five unpublished poems for the August issue of Bywords.ca. Please consult the guidelines on Bywords.ca. If you have questions, feel free to e-mail [email protected].

Bywords: Poetry and Ottawa Literary Eventsbywords.ca Bywords publishes poetry, a Calendar of Literary Events, and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Its aims are to publish emerging and established poets who reside, study or work in Ottawa.

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I actually didn't know this, but I'm also not shocked so much as I am shaking my head and thinking "Watch Whiteness Work." tulsaworld.com/news/local/i... Remember when I said earlier that Reparations and Land Back are inseparable projects? Well:

Did you know Greenwood and the Osage Terror were perpetrated by and profited from by the same people? The "private security" for the bankers who controlled the majority of "guardianships" was John Gustafson, who was also the Tulsa police chief who deputized the white mob that sacked Greenwood.

FBI files reveal Tulsa connections to Osage murderstulsaworld.com The FBI's 3,000-page Osage Indian Murders file connect players in the Osage Reign of Terror to another episode of unchecked racial violence that occurred in the same era, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

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For Nature’s new series on sex/gender, I wrote with the amazing Shari Brightly-Brown and G Nic Rider about gender modality, the limits of the cis/trans binary, and how to study gender more respectfully and accurately.

Beyond the trans/cis binary: introducing new terms will enrich gender researchwww.nature.com We need terms such as ‘gender modality’ that are flexible enough to capture the nuances of human experience but pragmatic enough to serve science. We need terms such as ‘gender modality’ that are flex...

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ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 31st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

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Haymarket books is having a 40% off sale through July that includes my books The Politics of Transindividuality and The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1027-t...

The Politics of Transindividualitywww.haymarketbooks.org In this stimulating and wide-ranging study, Jason Read uses the concept of transindividuality to re-examine social relation sand subjectivity.

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"The White House commends Israel for the operation, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement."

At least 210 people have been killed and more than 400 injured as a result of the Israeli operation to rescue four hostages in central Gaza, the enclave's government media office said. Follow live updates: cnn.it/3Ky3Xsi

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there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one

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Reading books as a kid taught me more words than I really need to know

Calling for police is calling for and signing off on violence. It's refusing the very possibility that there could be dialogue. It's undermining the very reason for being of universities.

York, where I conducted my graduate work, is only the third university in Canada to use police to raze an encampment. They gave students a trespass notice offering TEN MINUTES to disperse. The day after promising constructive dialogue.

And also here's a review of a most excellent book!

newly posted: Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : Nipinapunan, by Alexis Vollant periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/jero...

Jérôme Melançon : Nipinapunan, by Alexis Vollantperiodicityjournal.blogspot.com Nipinapunan , Alexis Vollant Éditions Hannenorak, 2023 Alexis Vollant’s collection Nipinapunan is a story that dwells on what run...

I greatly appreciate having the opportunity to translate these poems by Alexis Vollant, and spend time with the questions they ask about language, domination, love, and coloniality.

newly posted: Alexis Vollant : Four poems from Nipinapunan : translated by Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social and revised by the author periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/06/alex...

Alexis Vollant : Four poems from Nipinapunan : translated by Jérôme Melançon and revised by the authorperiodicityjournal.blogspot.com (Page 13) Summer is the time to go harvesting to go breathe underwater like otters it’s the time for braving extreme colds t...

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The board of directors of Columbia Law Review took its entire website offline because seven student editors refused to take down a paper on the Nakba that has been in preparation for five months. theintercept.com/2024/06/03/c...

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The Ongoing Nakba: Towards a Legal Framework for Palestine.

The “Harvard Law Review” Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gazawww.thenation.com The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.

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Columbia Law Review took the whole site down instead of making this law review article available. PDF version available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1vC1-...

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📜 CHRONIQUE | La déconstruction de l’histoire nationale au profit des minorités sévit-elle réellement à l’université? Survol des faits. #eduqc La chronique de Francis Dupuis-Déri 👇 pivot.quebec/2024/05...#eduqc La chronique de Francis Dupuis-Déri 👇 pivot.quebec/2024/05...

L’ignorance est une bénédiction : Christian Rioux et l’histoire dans les universités – Pivotpivot.quebec La déconstruction de l’histoire nationale au profit des minorités sévit-elle réellement à l’université? Survol des faits.

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for short story month, a reminder: if you excitedly pre-order my collection of short stories, On Beauty ualbertapress.ca/978177212769...) and/or @christinemcnair.bsky.social's hybrid memoir, Toxemia bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...) keep in mind that extra copies also make great gifts,

On Beauty - University of Alberta Pressualbertapress.ca On Beauty is a provocative collection of moments, confessions, overheard conversations, and memories, both fleeting and crystalized, revolving around the sma...

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Highly paid developers with huge amounts of private capital produced this. Ordinary people working for nothing more than the common good produced Wikipedia.

Endless source of info this thing

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There are more Christian Zionists in the US alone then there are Jews in the ENTIRE WORLD - and many Jews are not Zionists. Stop with this shit. Just because a few people speak out doesn't give you all some pass from being the biggest proponents of Zionism that exist.

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Pure cruelty in order to seize land and eliminate a people

“Israeli forces have bombed a tent camp housing displaced people in a designed safe zone in Rafah, killing at least 35 Palestinians, according to officials. Many of the victims were women and children.”

‘People burned alive’ as Israel attacks designated safe zone in Rafahwww.aljazeera.com Israel bombs tent camp housing displaced Palestinians, leading to a huge blaze and killing dozens of people.

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pleasantly surprised by cbc, really interesting one on the influence of mao fanon freire nyerere etc on dene political thought www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

How global liberation efforts helped shape the Dene fight for self-determination | Ideas with Nahlah Ayed | Live Radio | CBC Listenwww.cbc.ca The Dene fight for self-determination and sovereignty has deep historic ties to liberation efforts around the globe. Yellowknives Dene author and scholar Glen Coulthard traces those influences — and how they shape our current political moment.

Well, here's my anxiety fuel for the next while

So the Canadian government's forecasting department just put out a big report on potential disruptions over the next 3-7 years. It's stiff-drink stuff, but also contains approximately 67394 hooks for near-future science fiction. Enjoy. Or, you know, not. horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2024/disr...

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