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IndieAuthors.Social News @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 14:14 UTC

Recommended Reading List: March 2025

I had some strange experiences in my March reading. I taught a Gothic class in May, with an emphasis on Gothic romance. I loooove Gothic romance, and am not horribly fond of Gothic horror. But I chose a couple of books I hadn’t read before…and one of them! OMG! It started okay, had great…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/25/recommended-reading-list-march-2025/

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Alberto Chimal @[email protected] · 2025-05-11 · 20:52 UTC

This is sobering and illuminating: astrophysicist and author Adam Becker exposes the #flaws and outright #lies in #SiliconValley ideology, including the tech bros' obsessions with #Mars, #AI, and #immortality. 👨🏽‍💻

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/

#interviews #ArsTechnica #technology #capitalism #oligarchy #TechOligarchy #AdamBecker #ArsTechnica #singularity #books #RecommendedReading

#flaws #lies #siliconvalley #mars #ai #immortality

David Erik Nelson🪬 @[email protected] · 2025-04-23 · 14:47 UTC

Cyberpunk is Gen X’s “populuxe”—or using aesthetics to predict the future https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2025/04/cyberpunk-is-gen-xs-populuxe-or-using-aesthetics-to-predict-the-future/ #dystopia #newsF #NowIsTheFuture #Prognostication #RecommendedReading #ScienceFiction #scifi #WilliamGibson

#dystopia #newsf #nowisthefuture #prognostication #recommendedreading #sciencefiction

Alberto Chimal @[email protected] · 2025-02-14 · 17:26 UTC

A happy moment yesterday, at the #book launch of "Cabezas en la ventana", a new #anthology of #LatinAmerican #horror #fiction: Rich Orozco gave me this drawing, in which I'm placed in wonderful company. Thank you so much!! 🖤👹
#books #literature #LatinAmericanLiterature #LatAmLit #MarianaEnriquez #BernardoEsquinca #RamiroSanchiz #GabrielaDamián #SolangeRodriguez #RecommendedReading #AlbertoChimal #DavidLynch #EdgarAllanPoe #Lovecraft

#book #anthology #latinamerican #horror #fiction #books

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 06:57 UTC

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to [email protected] .

http://murderbydecree.com/

#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation

#recommendedreading #decolonial #education #free #openaccess #uncensored

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2024-11-18 · 16:47 UTC

#BlackRoseAnarchistFederation

In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little can be found on black militants in the Spanish revolution, like the one featured in the powerful photo on the cover of this reader — a member of the Bakunin Barracks in Barcelona, Spain 1936, and a symbol of both the profound presence and absence of Black anarchism internationally.

For more than 150 years, black anarchists have played a critical role in shaping various struggles around the globe, including mass strikes, national liberation movements, tenant organizing, prisoner solidarity, queer liberation, the formation of autonomous black liberation organizations, and more.

Our current political moment is one characterized by a global resurgence of Black rebellion in response to racialized state violence, criminalization, and dispossession. Black and Afro-diasporic communities in places like Britain, South Africa, Brazil, Haiti, Colombia and the US have initiated popular social movements to resist conditions of social death and forge paths toward liberation on their own terms. Given the anti-authoritarian spirit of these struggles, the time is ripe to take a closer look at anarchism more broadly, and Black anarchism in particular.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-black-anarchism-a-reader

#AnarchistLibrary #RecommendedReading #Educational #BlackAnarchists #BlackActivists #Anarchists #Anarchism #AnarchistHistory #BlackMastodon #POCAnarchists #decolonization

#blackroseanarchistfederation #anarchistlibrary #recommendedreading #educational #blackanarchists #blackactivists

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2024-11-18 · 00:53 UTC

Nohara Shiro, until his death in 1981, was a #Marxist #historian specializing in Chinese history and #ChinesePolitics who had also become strongly involved in the movement to eradicate pre-war feudal and fascist influences from #Japanese education and learning. The essay translated here originally appeared in his 1960 collection, History and Ideology in #Asia (Ajia no rekishi to shisb). Despite his personal preference for #Marxism over anarchism, Nohara’s approach to the subject is quite open-minded. The strengths of his essay are its focus upon practical organizing attempts rather than intellectual activities, and its revelation of the considerable #anarchist influence upon Li Dazhao, whom the #Communist Party has long claimed as its own. Whilst most of the early intellectual exponents of the anarchist idea either drifted away into obscurity, were converted to Marxism, or joined the bandwagon of the nationalist movement (some even becoming outright fascists), the organizing activities described here often became the building blocks for the subsequent communist movement. Nohara’s work is thus invaluable not only for shedding light on the role of anarchism as an intellectual stimulus for the Chinese #revolutionary movement as a whole, but also for making clear the political debt owed the anarchists in terms of practical activities.