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Our focus is minorities, human rights & experimental writing. We are a critically nuanced space for First Nations, CaLD, neurodivergent & disabled writers.

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Mascara Literary Review
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Mascara Publishing is proud to stand alongside Verso and other publishers who are calling for a ceasefire and denouncing repression of Palestinian solidarity. Read Publishers for Palestine's statement here. https://t.co/YewKkcXdsq
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"... what stays with me ... is a dancing image, of legs in the air. An enduring question of what being trans is, beyond what you reveal or don’t reveal & apart from the connection & self-realisation, is what you do with the gaze." @LittlePussPress https://t.co/XPUQapX6hN
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Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell Little Puss Press ISBN: 9781964322995 Reviewed by KAYA WILSON A reaching, layered and tender rejection of the rules-based essay It was in the early panic of...
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#review 'Her prose is clever, witty, there are breasts that ‘seem to want you to consider them for a position’(p.170), her ‘favourite Sergio Rossi shoes used to moo’ (p.112) and Nietzche’s ‘ectoplasmic moustaches curl like smoke’ (p.80). ' @LittlePussPress https://t.co/XPUQapX6hN
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Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell Little Puss Press ISBN: 9781964322995 Reviewed by KAYA WILSON A reaching, layered and tender rejection of the rules-based essay It was in the early panic of...
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“Who resides in which spaces? Who belongs and who are rendered outsiders? Who is constituted as the knowledgeable and the unknowledgeable? Which knowledges and ways of knowing are legitimised and which are discounted?” (165) @DukePress https://t.co/LsQlSL13HN
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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty  Duke University Press (2025) ISBN: 978-1-4780-3222-9 Reviewed by PAUL GIFFARD-FORET Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s latest book...
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#review “In North America, the binary that distinguishes the “academy” from the “community” or the academic from the activist […] has assisted in the creation of apparently distinct spaces where the former is privileged over the latter.” (164) @DukePress https://t.co/LsQlSL13HN
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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty  Duke University Press (2025) ISBN: 978-1-4780-3222-9 Reviewed by PAUL GIFFARD-FORET Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s latest book...
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@AshokaEdict
The Edict
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Aishani Misra (UG’27) from the Arts & Culture desk reflects on politics, privilege, and the celebrity in Arundhati Roy’s latest memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me.
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Mother Mary Comes To Me insists that it is an article of dissent. From its flaming red hardcover gazes a young Arundhati Roy, beedi in mouth—a brand aesthetic around a politics of defiance, carefully...
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@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
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In the latest in a series of critical essays supported by @CopyrightAgency, Nalini Jacob-Roussety reviews THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE by poet Omar Sakr and illustrator Safdar Ahmed. https://t.co/K97q72arQR
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At a time of growing apathy, when on-screen violence has become commonplace and eyes begin to turn shamefully away, only a select few mediums continue to resist desensitisation. Poet Omar Sakr and...
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@singharshul
Harshul हर्षुल 🌸
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I had the pleasure of speaking/sharing my work at UofConnecticut Sociology. Many thanks to Nancy Naples for this kind invitation. I spoke on the coloniality of caste in academic and knowledge structures - in and beyond South Asia and the Atlantic world academia.
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@MarioIAguilar
Prof. Mario I Aguilar
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Our solidarity with Prof Francesca Orsini, linguist and scholar of Hindi at SOAS who tonight has been denied entry into Delhi at Indira Ghandi International Airport. She had a current visa and was a frequent visitor to India. All those of us who visit India and research on India
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Siddharth
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I can confirm that Prof Francesca Orsini, scholar of Hindi at SOAS, London University, has been stopped from entering India tonight even though she has a valid 5 year e-visa. She arrived from Hong Kong in Delhi and was told she would not be allowed in.
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@SOAS_SAI
SOAS South Asia Institute
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Join us for webinar on "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" 🗓️ 30 October 2025 🕧 12:30 PM 📍 Online via Zoom https://t.co/jKP0qIhmEK
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Join us for a discussion of Oishik Sircar's "Ways of Remembering," exploring how law and cinema shape memory of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. Featuring conversation with Manisha Sethi and Shohini Ghosh.
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@CentreMehi
Polly Cutmore (Barawaa) also, @cutmore.bsky.social
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Such good news! Traditional owners handed 900,000ha of Cape York land after 255 years 🍾 https://t.co/1n0V2hqftb
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@bucephalus424
Mathias
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@craigsperez
Craig Santos Perez
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cool to see this new essay discussing indigenous poetry, including my own.
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Mascara Literary Review
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Amazing line up for a One Day Literary Event for emerging writers #lutruwita @krissykneen @UTAS_ @UTASEnglish https://t.co/RmtR72o3M0
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@AestheticaMag
Aesthetica Magazine
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#OnThisDay in 1901, sculptor Alberto Giacometti was born. "I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
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@sihirperempuan
Intan Paramaditha
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In September I visited Shunjusha, my Japanese publisher for The Wandering (彷徨). I had the chance to see the other titles in the Asian Literature Library series and met editor @asn5x. An interview will soon be available on the @shunjusha website: https://t.co/LaZCyveGLL
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Mascara Literary Review
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#review #fiction 'Her female characters, in their unique way, have always seethed, raging against expectations, family, work, school, men, other women, always incandescent, always bristling with life.' https://t.co/r2cXsJPKme
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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga Faber and Faber ISBN 9780571355525 Reviewed by BRIAN OBIRI-ASARE   Right from the get-go, in the third instalment of her Tambudzai series, Tsitsi Dangarembga...
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"What emerges, across forty-eight short and interweaving chapters, is both a rich personal story and an impressive work of scholarship that resists what Sahhar has elsewhere called the “tabula rasa of the settler imagination” (1). @FinleyJapp https://t.co/RjuePFIkPX
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Find Me at the Jaffa Gate by Micaela Sahhar NewSouth ISBN 9781761170287 Reviewed by FINLEY JAPP   A photograph, Palestine, c.1920s: a young man has stopped on the side of a country road. He poses...
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@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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@redriverpress
Red River
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In this beautiful video, Resmi Revindran, who, after a career in engineering and finance, is now on a journey nurturing her passion for arts and literature, reads a poem from Alone in the Night River by Mukunda Ramarao, translated from the Telugu by M Sridhar and Alladi Uma.
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